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| How common is frailty in older Australians? | | Author(s) | Imaina Widagdo, Nicole Pratt, Mary Russell, Elizabeth Roughead |
| Journal title | Australasian Journal on Ageing, vol 34, no 4, December 2015 |
| Publisher | Wiley, December 2015 |
| Pages | pp 247-251 |
| Source | wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/ajag |
| Keywords | Ageing process ; Ill health ; Chronic illness ; Population ; Measurement ; Australia. |
| Annotation | The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of frailty in a cohort of older Australians. Frailty status of the 2,087 participants of the Australian Longitudinal Study of Ageing was assessed based on the questionnaire responses at the baseline interview. Frailty status and prevalence were assessed using four measures: two unidimensional measures (the Frailty Phenotype and Simplified Frailty Phenotype) and two multidimensional measures (Frailty Index and Prognostic Frailty Score). Agreement between the four measures was determined. The multidimensional measures identified more people as frail (17.5 and 49.4%) than did the unidimensional (2 and 8.8%). There was little agreement between the measures, and only 0.5% of the participants were identified as frail by all four measures. The apparent prevalence of frailty varied when different measures were used. It is important for clinicians and researchers to be aware that different frailty measures may identify different groups of older people as frail. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-160205218 A |
| Classmark | BG: CH: CI: S3: 3R: 7YA |
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