Frailty in Older Adults: Evidence for a Phenotype
This study provides a potential standardized definition for frailty in community-dwelling older adults and offers concurrent and predictive validity for the definition. It also ...
Publications
6 shownResearch Agenda for Frailty in Older Adults: Toward a Better Understanding of Physiology and Etiology: Summary from the American Geriatrics Society/National Institute on Aging Research Conference on Frailty in Older Adults
Evolving definitions of frailty, and improved understanding of molecular and physiological declines in multiple systems that may increase vulnerability in frail, older adults ha...
Frailty and Activation of the Inflammation and Coagulation Systems With and Without Clinical Comorbidities<subtitle>Results From the Cardiovascular Health Study</subtitle>
These findings support the hypothesis that there is a specific physiological basis to the geriatric syndrome of frailty that is characterized in part by increased inflammation a...
Nonlinear Multisystem Physiological Dysregulation Associated With Frailty in Older Women: Implications for Etiology and Treatment
Overall, these findings indicate that the likelihood of frailty increases nonlinearly in relationship to the number of physiological systems abnormal, and the number of abnormal...
Designing Randomized, Controlled Trials Aimed at Preventing or Delaying Functional Decline and Disability in Frail, Older Persons: A Consensus Report
The discovery of effective interventions to prevent or delay disability in older persons is a public health priority. Most likely to benefit from such interventions are frail in...
Clinical Global Impression of Change in Physical Frailty: Development of a Measure Based on Clinical Judgment
Objectives: To expand the ability to assess physical frailty by developing a Clinical Global Impression of Change in Physical Frailty (CGIC‐PF) instrument. Design: Qualitative a...
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Researcher Info
- h-index
- 6
- Publications
- 6
- Citations
- 27,286
- Institution
- United States Department of Veterans Affairs
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- ORCID
- 0000-0002-6965-2723
Impact Metrics
h-index
6
h-index: Number of publications with at least h citations each.