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...
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...
