Promoting the Assessment of Frailty in the Clinical Approach to Cognitive Disorders

Since the Frailty Index weights every composing item as 1/n (where n is the total of considered deficits), no specific sign, symptom, or condition will be able to affect/bias the final score. [...]by including disabilities in its computation, the Frailty Index provides meaningful results in every in...

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Published in:Frontiers in aging neuroscience 2017-02, Vol.9, p.36-36
Main Authors: Canevelli, Marco, Cesari, Matteo, Remiddi, Francesca, Trebbastoni, Alessandro, Quarata, Federica, Vico, Carlo, de Lena, Carlo, Bruno, Giuseppe
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Age
Aging
Chronic illnesses
Cognition & reasoning
Cognitive ability
Frailty
Geriatrics
Neuroscience
Older people
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Summary:Since the Frailty Index weights every composing item as 1/n (where n is the total of considered deficits), no specific sign, symptom, or condition will be able to affect/bias the final score. [...]by including disabilities in its computation, the Frailty Index provides meaningful results in every individual, independently of age and functional status. Given its continuous nature, the Frailty Index is also particularly sensitive to modifications over time and avoids the introduction of arbitrary decisions for the choice of defining cut-points (Rockwood et al., 2007). [...]it may constitute a useful tool for describing the overall health status of the individual and measure its trajectory over time (also to ascertain the effectiveness of the implemented interventions; Cesari et al., 2014). [...]being founded on objective criteria, the Frailty Index is less prone to generate biases arising from the modification of pre-existing questionnaires and tools, as observed for other operational definitions (Theou et al., 2015).
ISSN:1663-4365
1663-4365
DOI:10.3389/fnagi.2017.00036