L Rodriguez-Mañas L, Araujo de Carvalho I, Bhasin S, Bischoff-Ferrari H A, Cesari M, Evans W, Hare J M, Pahor M, Parini A, Rolland Y, Fielding R A, Walston J, Vellas B and the ICSFR Task Force J Frailty Aging Link to Pubmed / Journal Published October 7,...
International Conference on Frailty and Sarcopenia Research Event: ICFSR 2020, Toulouse, France Length: Over 20 hrs of video recordings The 10th International Conference on Frailty and Sarcopenia Research (ICFSR 2020) took place in Toulouse, France in March 2020. All...
The importance in the clinical setting of the Consensus Report from the Global Clinical Nutrition Community The group – convened with Dr Cederholm – point out that in frail patients, malnutrition can be caused not only by compromised intake (or...
AlGhatrif M, Cingolani O, Lakatta E JAMA Cardiology Link to Pubmed / Journal Published April 3, 2020 Summary An interesting article by Dr Majd AlGhatrif (National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health, USA) in JAMA Cardiology, sheds light on...
Kunz R, Minder M Swiss Med Wkly. 2020;150:w20235 Published March 24, 2020 Summary Data from various European countries confirm that while the whole population is at risk from infection with the coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), older people – often frail and subject to...
Marco Pahor, Jack M Guralnik, Stephen D Anton, Walter T Ambrosius, Steven N Blair, Timothy S Church, Mark A Espeland, Roger A Fielding, Thomas M Gill, Nancy W Glynn, Erik J Groessl, Abby C King, Stephen B Kritchevsky, Todd M Manini, Mary M McDermott, Michael E Miller,...
Charlotte S, Haddock B, Alcazar J, Noerst T, Hansen OM, Ludvig H, Kamper RS, Schnohr P, Prescott E, Andersen LL, Frandsen U, Aagaard P, Bülow J, Hovind P, Simonsen L JCSM 2019; 10: 1316–1329 Link to Pubmed / Journal Published August 16, 2019 Summary Low...
The WHO integrated care for older people (ICOPE) Guidelines on community-level interventions to manage declines in intrinsic capacity providing guidance on evidence-based interventions to manage declines in intrinsic capacity in older age is now available. They cover...
Dr. Emanuele Marzetti December 9, 2015 Length: 2 min Exclusive on Frailty.net. Dr. Marzetti explains differences between frailty and dismobility, and adds further details on the SPRINTT trial. The interview was filmed during the 8th International Conference on...
Philadelphia, USA April 28-29, 2016 View the full Iinternational Conference on Frailty and Sarcopenia Research – ICFSR Program PDF – 2016. View abstracts as printed in JFA (The Journal of Frailty and Aging) – ICFSR Abstracts PDF -2016. View the...
Paris, France December 4-6, 2015 For details, see Society on Sarcopenia, Cachexia and Muscle Wasting (SCWD). www.society-scwd.org >
Chiang Mai, Thailand October 19-22, 2015 International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics (IAGG) 10th Asia/Oceania Congress. www.iagg.info >
Oslo, Norway September 16-18, 2015 Details of the 11th Congress of the EUGMS are on the EUGMS (European Union Geriatric Medicine Society) website: www.eugms.org > The submitted abstracts in flipbook format are available, as well as a PDF of abstracts on the...
Toronto, Canada August 24-26, 2015 More on the Geriatrics/Gerontology conference series website.
Barcelona, Spain June 18-19, 2015 For information on the IANA congresses see UNM School of Medicine website. Organized by the International Academy on Nutrition and Aging – IANA. www.iana-congress.com >
Dublin, Ireland April 23-26, 2015 More on the IAGG Congress – Dublin, April 2015. Arranged by the International Association on Gerontology and Geriatrics – IAGG.
Boston, MA, USA April 23-25, 2015 See ICSFR 2015 – International Conference on Frailty & Sarcopenia Research press release. www.frailty-sarcopenia.com >
Paris, France March 12-13, 2015 See www.fragilite.org for more from the organizers.
Paris, France November 25-27, 2014 “Journées Annuelles de la Société Française de Gériatrie et Gérontologie”. See the website www.jasfgg2014.com.
Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada October 16-18, 2014
Rotterdam, The Netherlands September 17-19, 2014
Albuquerque, NM, USA July 10-11, 2014
Brussels, Belgium June 18, 2014 See EC Public Health/Ageing web page on Frailty in Old Age: Identifying Priorities.
Taipei, Taiwan June 6-8, 2014
Antalya, Turkey May 28-31, 2014
Liège, Belgium May 14-16, 2014
Marseille, France April 3-4, 2014
Cartagena de Indias, Colombia March 26-29, 2014 More on the 5th Panamerican Congress of Gerontology and Geriatrics.
Barcelona, Spain March 12-14, 2014
Saint Louis, MO, USA November 22-23, 2013
Kyoto, Japan October 30-November 1, 2013
Venice, Italy October 2-4, 2013
Seoul, Korea June 23-27, 2013
Toulouse, France May 17-18, 2013 View the first congress program entitled 1er Congrès Francophone Fragilité des personnes âgées. The congress was arranged under the scientific oversight of the Toulouse Gérontopôle Research Center based in Toulouse,...
Comans TA, Peel NM, Hubbard RE, et al. Age Ageing 2016; Jan 13 [Epub ahead of print] Publication date: January 13, 2016 Summary Older people are high users of healthcare resources. The objective of the study by Comans et al. was to quantify the impact of frailty on...
Siordia C, Nguyen HT J Frailty Aging 2015;4:175-180 Publication date: December 1, 2015 Summary Within the assessment of frailty, self-rated health (SRH) questions remain frequently used in survey research attempting to quantify a subjective and global measure of...
Vaughan L, Corbin AL, Goveas JS Clin Interv Aging 2015;10:1947-58 Publication date: December 15, 2015 Summary Frailty and depression are important issues affecting older adults. Depressive syndrome may be difficult to clinically disambiguate from frailty in advanced...
Fougère B, Vellas B, Billet S, et al. Ageing Res Rev 2015;24:299-303 Publication date: November 1, 2015 Summary The rapid growth in the number of older adults has many implications for public health, including the need to better understand the risks posed by...
The detection of frail older individuals living in the community represents a crucial preliminary step in the development of effective prevention against disability and age-related conditions. However, currently available screening tools for the identification of...
Identification of frail patients before their vulnerability is made evident by the onset of a major clinical event is one of the major challenges in implementing frailty into clinical practice. General practitioners play a key role in this context. Due to an often...
EASY-Care Two-step Older persons Screening tool (EASY Care TOS) The EASY-Care Two-step Older persons Screening (EASY-Care TOS) tool is a practice-based tool designed to help family physicians identify frail older patients. This article by van Kempen and colleagues is...
John E. Morley, MB, BCh Division of Geriatric Medicine and Endocrinology Saint Louis University School of Medicine St. Louis, Missouri, USA In 2013 a consensus meeting of 6 societies (IAGG, EUGMS, AMDA, IANA, AFAR and SCWD) called for screening by health professionals...
The Short Physical Performance Battery (SPPB) is an objective assessment tool for evaluating lower extremity functioning in older persons. It was developed by the National Institute on Aging in the United States and is available for use without permission or royalty...
Anne Hendry – National Clinical Lead for Integrated Care, Joint Improvement Team, Scotland January 29, 2015 PDF, 1.5 MB, 16 slides Open PDF
Gabor Abellan van Kan – The Frailty Clinic in Toulouse (Toulouse Gerontopole), Inserm Université de Toulouse, France Event: ICFSR 2014: International Conference on Frailty & Sarcopenia Research – Barcelona, Spain March 12, 2014 PDF, 1.2 MB, 22 slides...
Gérontopôle, Toulouse August 20, 2014 PDF, 0.6 MB, 7 slides View PDF
Avan Aihie Sayer – Academic Geriatric Medicine, MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, UK September 10, 2013 PDF, 1 MB, 18 slides Open PDF
L. Rodríguez Mañas – Hospital Universitario de Getafe, Madrid, Spain September 10, 2013 PDF, 4.7 MB, 64 slides Open PDF
Bruno Vellas M.D, Ph.D September 5, 2013 PDF, 1.9 MB, 33 slides View PDF
Gabor Abellan van Kan – The Frailty Clinic in Toulouse (Toulouse Gerontopole), Inserm Université de Toulouse, France December 3, 2013 PDF, 1.4 MB, 23 slides Author(s): Gabor Abellan van Kan, Matteo Cesari, Bruno Vellas View PDF
Prof. Leocadio Rodríguez Mañas Event: ICFSR2015, Boston, USA April 23, 2015 Length: 19 min Prof. Leocadio Rodríguez Mañas presents “MID-FRAIL, a different approach to the older adults with diabetes”. Video shows speaker/slides as presented at ICFSR 2015 on...
Prof. Alan Sinclair Event: ICFSR2015, Boston, USA April 23, 2015 Length: 22 min Listen to Prof. Alan Sinclair as he discusses the subject “Diabetes as a model of pre-disability: preventing further functional decline and optimising neuromuscular and vascular function”....
Prof. Alex Mebazza April, 2015 Length: 38 sec Question answered by Prof. Alex Mebazza on the subject of frailty in patients with heart failure....
Dr. Karen Bandeen Roche Event: ICFSR2015, Boston, USA April 23, 2015 Length: 16 min During the International Conference on Frailty & Sarcopenia Research in Boston, Dr. Karen Bandeen Roche presented a lecture entitled “Frailty and cognition: One...
Prof. John E. Morley Event: ICFSR2015, Boston, USA April 23, 2015 Length: 17 min Prof. John E. Morley presents a lecture at ICFSR2015 entitled “How sweet is this? Diabetes, Frailty and Sarcopenia”. Speaker and slides synchronized in the video....
Prof. Yves Rolland Event: ICFSR2015, Boston, USA April 23, 2015 Length: 19 min ICFSR 2015 – Prof. Yves Rolland, “How to implement frailty into clinical practice”. Lecture presented by Prof. Yves Rolland during the International Conference on Frailty & Sarcopenia...
Dr. Qian-Li Xue Event: ICFSR2015, Boston, USA April 23, 2015 Length: 19 min During the International Conference on Frailty & Sarcopenia Research in Boston, Dr. Qian-Li Xue presented a lecture entitled “Intersection and distinction between physical frailty...
Prof. Roberto Bernabei Event: ICFSR2015, Boston, USA April 23, 2015 Length: 11 min During the International Conference on Frailty & Sarcopenia Research in Boston, Prof. Roberto Bernabei presented a lecture entitled “How to implement sarcopenia into clinical...
Dr. Matteo Cesari Event: ICFSR2015, Boston, USA April 24, 2015 Length: 15½ min During the International Conference on Frailty & Sarcopenia Research in Boston, Dr. Matteo Cesari presented a lecture entitled ” The Physical Frailty & Sarcopenia...
Dr. Emanuele Marzetti Event: ICFSR2015, Boston, USA April 24, 2015 Length: 16 min During the International Conference on Frailty & Sarcopenia Research in Boston, Dr. Emanuele Marzetti presented a lecture entitled “Biomarkers for Sarcopenia and Physical...
Dr. Bjoern Buehring Event: ICFSR2015, Boston, USA April 24, 2015 Length: 18 min During the International Conference on Frailty & Sarcopenia Research in Boston, Dr. Bjoern Buehring presented a lecture entitled “Sarco-Osteoporosis Diagnosis”....
Prof. Roberto Bernabei Event: ICFSR2015, Boston, USA April 24, 2015 Length: 11 min During the International Conference on Frailty & Sarcopenia Research in Boston, Prof. Roberto Bernabei presented a lecture entitled “Older people unmet needs are changing...
Prof. Ricardo Cappato 2014 Length: 2:03 min Listen to Prof. Ricardo Cappato as he discusses frailty in patients with heart failure.
Prof. Yves Rolland Event: ICFSR 2014, Barcelona, Spain April 14, 2014 Length: 25 min View video of Prof. Yves Rolland as he discusses body composition and mortality in the elderly as well as the association between fat mass, muscle mass and mortality....
Dr. Roseline Peluchon 2014 Length: 3 min Listen to Dr. Roseline Peluchon as she discusses the general practitioner and frailty. (Video coming soon)
Prof. Alfonso J. Cruz-Jentoft Event: ICFSR 2014, Barcelona, Spain April 14, 2014 Length: 27 min During the International Conference on Frailty & Sarcopenia Research in Barcelona, listen to Prof. Alfonso J. Cruz-Jentoft as he discusses physical aspects of frailty...
Prof. Alan Sinclair Event: ICFSR 2014, Barcelona, Spain April 14, 2014 Length: 30 min During the International Conference on Frailty & Sarcopenia Research in Barcelona, listen to Prof. Alan Sinclair as he discusses the connection between type 2 diabetes and...
Prof. John Morley Event: ICFSR 2014, Barcelona, Spain April 14, 2014 Length: 21:21 min During the International Conference on Frailty & Sarcopenia Research in Barcelona, listen to Prof. John Morley as he discusses the definitions of frailty and sarcopenia, and...
Prof. Bruno Vellas Event: ICFSR 2014, Barcelona, Spain April 14, 2014 Length: 28 min During the International Conference on Frailty & Sarcopenia Research in Barcelona, listen to Prof. Bruno Vellas as he sets the scene on Frailty....
The British Geriatrics Society (BGS) has launched a two-part guidance on the recognition and management of older patients with frailty in community and outpatient settings. Called ‘Fit for Frailty’, it has been produced in association with the Royal...
Cesari M, Fielding RA, Pahor M, et al. J Frailty Aging 2012;1:102-10 Publication date: September 1, 2012 Summary In this consensus document, the International Working Group on Sarcopenia discusses the current state of the art in the development of biomarkers to be...
Morley JE, Vellas B, Abellan van Kan G, et al. J Am Med Dir Assoc 2013;14:392-7 In previous consensus conferences on frailty, significant strides were made and it was agreed that frailty is a clinical disorder rather than a disability, that it is associated with...
Kelaiditi E, Cesari M, Canevelli M, et al. J Nutr Health Aging 2013;17:726-34 Publication date: November 1, 2013 The frailty syndrome has recently attracted attention of the scientific community and public health organizations as precursor and contributor of...
Rodríguez-Mañas L, Féart C, Mann G, et al. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 2013;68:62-7 Frailty as a concept has gained importance in recent years due to the need to better understand the health and quality of life of the elderly and the need to address diseases and...
Fielding RA, Vellas B, Evans WJ, et al. J Am Med Dir Assoc 2011;12:249-56 A meeting of the International Working Group on Sarcopenia, a group of scientists and geriatricians, was convened on November 18, 2009, in Rome, Italy, with the objective to develop a consensus...
Fearon K, Strasser F, Anker SD, et al. Lancet Oncol 2011;12:489-95 The authors used a formal consensus process to develop a definition, diagnostic criteria, and classification system specific to cancer cachexia. Cancer cachexia is defined as a multifactorial syndrome...
Evans WJ, Morley JE, Argiles J, et al. Clin Nutr 2008;27:793-9 The lack of a universally agreed upon operational definition of cachexia has limited identification and treatment of cachectic patient as well as the development and approval of potential therapeutic...
Cruz-Jentoft AJ, Baeyens JP, Bauer JM, et al. Age Ageing 2010;39:412-23 The authors report the results of a meeting of the International Working Group on Sarcopenia held on June 7-8, 2011 in Toulouse, France. The currently available biomarkers that could be utilized...
Bruno Vellas, MD, PhD September 9, 2013 Objectives 1. Explain the concepts of pathological ageing, polypathologies, and vulnerability 2. Describe the principles related to prevention 3. Discuss how to evaluate autonomy and dependency, and examine assistance and...
Yves Rolland, MD, PhD January 28, 2015 Your patient, Mr. X, is 88 years old. He consults you regularly every three months for monitoring of a moderate hypertension and for hypercholesterolemia. He calls you because he feels too tired to move and he prefers that you...
One of the challenges faced by our societies is to preserve physical function and independent living with advancing age. Frailty is a clinical syndrome frequently anticipating the onset of disability. Common clinical manifestations of frailty are unintentional weight...
This European Innovation Partnership on Active and Heatlhy Aging infographic on frailty prevention gives an overview of the issue of frailty prevention to allow a better understanding of what it is, raise awareness and explain which actions are being undertaken by the...
The SPRINTT project has two major objectives. First, it will aim at providing a clear, objective, scientifically sound, and clinically-relevant operational definition of Physical Frailty & Sarcopenia (PF&S), to allow the identification of older individuals...
Frailty is rapidly developing as a research field. The clinical studies listed below will evaluate clinical interventions aimed at preventing or delaying the onset of disability in older persons by targeting the frailty syndrome: Healthy Life for Frail Malnourished...
What is frailomic? FRAILOMIC is an international initiative that aims to identify the markers, or biomarkers, of the processes that turn frailty into disability. The main objective of the study is to develop clinical instruments that can predict the risk of frailty,...
What is DO-HEALTH? As the European population is aging rapidly, health at older age has become a central concern: 1) to the individual who wants to stay active and independent at older age, 2) to the society who will increasingly depend on the productivity of the...
The International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics (IAGG) – Global Aging Research Network (GARN) was commissioned by the World Health Organization (WHO)’s Department of Aging and Life Course to setup a group of 15 international experts to finalize...
The European Commission is responding to the challenge of an ageing population with an ambitious initiative: the European Innovation Partnership on Active and Healthy Ageing. One of the key actions identified by the Partnership is the prevention of frailty in old age....
Frailty has been described as a multisystem impairment responsible for a state of increased vulnerability to endogenous and exogenous stressors. This syndrome may represent the first step towards clinically relevant functional disability and has been shown to be...
Kay Lazar Publication date: January 24, 2015 Link to Boston Globe
Julia Corbett Publication date: January 15, 2015 Read on www.homecare.co.uk
Rosalie Marion Bliss Publication date: January 8, 2015 Read more
Makoto Sekiya Publication date: December 17, 2014 Read article
Richard Gunderman Publication date: December 8, 2014 The Atlantic
Laura Landro Publication date: June 22, 2014 Read on WSJ
Marlene Cimmons Publication date: December 10, 2012 Continue on to Wahington Post
October 19, 2015 The 4th ICSFR Conference which took place in Boston on April 23-25, 2015 was dedicated to raising awareness of the need to implement frailty and sarcopenia into clinical practice. Please view one of a series of video/slide webcasts as presented by...
April 23, 2015 BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, April 23, 2015. At a symposium held today at the International Conference on Frailty and Sarcopenia Research in Boston, Massachusetts, international experts on sarcopenia backed a proposal to establish a diagnostic code for the...
April 23, 2015 Press release What is Frailty & Sarcopenia? Frailty is a clinical syndrome in which there is an increase in an individual’s vulnerability for developing increased dependency due to three or more of the following criteria: unintentional weight loss,...
Ng TP, Feng L, Nyunt MS, et al. Am J Med 2015;128:1225-1236 e1221 Publication date: November 1, 2015 Summary The objective of the Singapore Frailty Intervention Trial was to assess whether frailty among older individuals is reversible with nutritional, physical or...
Becker C, Lord SR, Studenski SA, et al. Lancet Diabetes Endocrinol 2015;3:948-957 Publication date: December 1, 2015 Summary Myostatin inhibits skeletal muscle growth. The humanised monoclonal antibody LY2495655 (LY) binds and neutralises myostatin. Beker et al.aimed...
Journal of Frailty and Aging ‒ Volume 4, Issue 3, September 2015 J Frailty Aging 2015;4(3) Publication date: September 1, 2015 The September 2015 issue of the Journal of Frailty and Aging is now available. Topics discussed in this issue include pharmacological...
Bauer JM, Verlaan S, Bautmans I, et al. J Am Med Dir Assoc 2015;16:740-747 Publication date: September 1, 2015 Summary Preserving physical mobility, function and independent living is of utmost importance for frail older adults. Sarcopenia, the age-related loss of...
Kahlon S, Pederson J, Majumdar SR, et al. CMAJ 2015;187:799-804 Publication date: August 11, 2015 Summary Readmissions after hospital discharge are common and costly, but prediction models are poor at identifying patients at high risk of readmission. This study...
Wang YJ, Wang Y, Zhan JK, et al. Int J Endocrinol 2015;2015:482940 Publication date: July 27, 2015 Summary The aim of this study by Wang et al. was to estimate the prevalence of sarco-osteoporosis and investigate its relationship with frailty in a sample of 316...
