A Frailty Instrument for primary care: findings from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE)
Open Access
- 24 August 2010
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in BMC Geriatrics
- Vol. 10 (1), 57
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2318-10-57
Abstract
A frailty paradigm would be useful in primary care to identify older people at risk, but appropriate metrics at that level are lacking. We created and validated a simple instrument for frailty screening in Europeans aged ≥50. Our study is based on the first wave of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE, http://www.share-project.org), a large population-based survey conducted in 2004-2005 in twelve European countries.Keywords
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