Frailty Screening Tools: Frail Detection to Primary Assessment

نویسندگان

1 Department of Health Policy and Management, School of Management, Jiangsu University, China

2 Quality Assurance Unit, University of Health and Allied Sciences, Ho-Volta Region, Ghana

doi
10.18502/ehj.v6i1.3417
چکیده

Frailty is a vulnerable situation among older adults which can lead to unfavorable health outcomes such as falls, mortality, functional decline and institutionalization. The increasing number of elderly people and low rate of mortality has necessitated the need for high-quality medical services for this aging population, and this has led to ...