 Frail Elderly
"Frail Elderly" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Older adults or aged individuals who are lacking in general strength and are unusually susceptible to disease or to other infirmity.
| Descriptor ID |
D016330
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| MeSH Number(s) |
M01.060.116.100.540
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| Concept/Terms |
Frail Elderly- Frail Elderly
- Elderly, Frail
- Frail Elders
- Elder, Frail
- Elders, Frail
- Frail Elder
Frail Older Adults- Frail Older Adults
- Adult, Frail Older
- Adults, Frail Older
- Frail Older Adult
- Older Adult, Frail
- Older Adults, Frail
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| 1997 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2002 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2005 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2007 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2008 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2009 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2010 | 3 | 0 | 3 | | 2013 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2017 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2018 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2019 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2021 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2022 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Frail Elderly" by people in Profiles.
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Ekram ARMS, Woods RL, Ryan J, Espinoza SE, Gilmartin-Thomas JFM, Shah RC, Mehta R, Kochar B, Lowthian JA, Lockery J, Orchard S, Nelson M, Fravel MA, Liew D, Ernst ME. The association between polypharmacy, frailty and disability-free survival in community-dwelling healthy older individuals. Arch Gerontol Geriatr. 2022 Jul-Aug; 101:104694.
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Ryan J, Espinoza S, Ernst ME, Ekram ARMS, Wolfe R, Murray AM, Shah RC, Orchard SG, Fitzgerald S, Beilin LJ, Ward SA, Williamson JD, Newman AB, McNeil JJ, Woods RL. Validation of a Deficit-Accumulation Frailty Index in the ASPirin in Reducing Events in the Elderly Study and Its Predictive Capacity for Disability-Free Survival. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2022 01 07; 77(1):19-26.
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Zanotto T, Galperin I, Mirelman A, Yehezkiyahu S, Estes J, Chen L, Regev K, Karni A, Schmitz-Hübsch T, Paul F, Lynch SG, Akinwuntan AE, Devos H, Hausdorff JM, Sosnoff JJ. Frailty and Falls in People Living With Multiple Sclerosis. Arch Phys Med Rehabil. 2022 05; 103(5):952-957.
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Buchman AS, Leurgans SE, Wang T, Schnaider-Beeri M, Agarwal P, Dawe RJ, Delbono O, Bennett DA. Motor function is the primary driver of the associations of sarcopenia and physical frailty with adverse health outcomes in community-dwelling older adults. PLoS One. 2021; 16(2):e0245680.
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Wallace LMK, Theou O, Godin J, Andrew MK, Bennett DA, Rockwood K. Investigation of frailty as a moderator of the relationship between neuropathology and dementia in Alzheimer's disease: a cross-sectional analysis of data from the Rush Memory and Aging Project. Lancet Neurol. 2019 02; 18(2):177-184.
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Fleisher J, Barbosa W, Sweeney MM, Oyler SE, Lemen AC, Fazl A, Ko M, Meisel T, Friede N, Dacpano G, Gilbert RM, Di Rocco A, Chodosh J. Interdisciplinary Home Visits for Individuals with Advanced Parkinson's Disease and Related Disorders. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2018 07; 66(6):1226-1232.
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Coke LA, Dennison Himmelfarb CR. Type 2 Diabetes in the Older Adult: The Need for Assessment of Frailty. J Cardiovasc Nurs. 2017 Nov/Dec; 32(6):511-513.
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Shin JY, Yoon JK, Diaz AZ. Gliosarcoma in septuagenarians and octogenarians: What is the impact of adjuvant chemoradiation? J Clin Neurosci. 2017 Nov; 45:77-82.
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Song J, Lindquist LA, Chang RW, Semanik PA, Ehrlich-Jones LS, Lee J, Sohn MW, Dunlop DD. Sedentary Behavior as a Risk Factor for Physical Frailty Independent of Moderate Activity: Results From the Osteoarthritis Initiative. Am J Public Health. 2015 Jul; 105(7):1439-45.
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Buchman AS, Yu L, Wilson RS, Boyle PA, Schneider JA, Bennett DA. Brain pathology contributes to simultaneous change in physical frailty and cognition in old age. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2014 Dec; 69(12):1536-44.
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