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A global clinical measure of fitness and frailty in elderly people
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The ability of the Clinical Frailty Scale to predict death or need for institutional care, and correlated the results with those obtained from other established tools are determined.
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A brief clinical instrument to classify frailty in elderly people
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Frailty: an emerging research and clinical paradigm--issues and controversies.
Clinicians and researchers have shown increasing interest in frailty. Yet, there is still considerable uncertainty regarding the concept and its definition. In this article, we present perspectives…
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A reevaluation of the duration of survival after the onset of dementia.
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Median survival after the onset of dementia is much shorter than has previously been estimated; the estimate was adjusted for length bias.
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Prevalence, attributes, and outcomes of fitness and frailty in community-dwelling older adults: report from the Canadian study of health and aging.
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Fitness and frailty form a continuum and predict survival, even in old age, and are potentially useful markers of the risk for adverse health outcomes, and add value to traditional medical assessments that focus on diagnoses.
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Measurement, Correlates, and Health Outcomes of Medication Adherence Among Seniors
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A comprehensive review of the literature on the measurement, correlates, and health outcomes of medication adherence among community-dwelling older adults suggests polypharmacy and poor patient–healthcare provider relationships may be major determinants of nonadherence among older persons.
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Cognitive impairment in the nondemented elderly. Results from the Canadian Study of Health and Aging.
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While the various criteria that were evaluated may accurately define a select subset of cognitively impaired individuals, the natural history and prognosis of such groups, currently unknown, may not be generalizable to the larger population of subjects who are CIND.
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Family Physicians’ Attitudes and Practices Regarding Assessments of Medical Fitness to Drive in Older Persons
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Education about assessing driving fitness and approaches that protect the physician–patient relationship when reporting occurs are needed.
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Use of lipid-lowering agents, indication bias, and the risk of dementia in community-dwelling elderly people.
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Lipid-lowering agent use was associated with a lower risk of dementia, and specifically of Alzheimer disease, in those younger than 80 years, an effect that persisted after adjustment for sex, educational level, and self-rated health.
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Models, definitions, and criteria of frailty.
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