Frailty: joining the giants

Frailty: joining the giants.

Since Isaacs made that statement, further giants of geriatric medicine, such as iatrogenesis, have been added to the list. The concept of geriatric syndromes has been universally accepted with internationally agreed-upon definitions and numerous guidelines for assessment and treatment. The last decade has seen a burgeoning interest in yet another giant: the frailty syndrome. Frailty can be thou...

Frailty and Sarcopenia: The New Geriatric Giants.

In the last decade, it has become clear that older persons who are frail or sarcopenic have very high rates of functional deterioration, hospitalization, and death. Recently, it has become recognized that simple screening questionnaires, e.g., the FRAIL and SARC-F, perform as well as more complex testing for the physical phenotype screen and sarcopenia. In this article, we provide a simple algo...

The Cardboard Giants

This is a record of the experiences in a mental hospital of a patient suffering (apparently) from paranoid schizophrenia. As it is stated on the cover that the patient has recovered from his illness and that he has written the book under his own name, it is very difficult to make any comment from the clinical point of view without running the risk of doing harm. He himself has recorded and disc...

the shoulders of Giants

Prevalence of frailty and factors associated with frailty in the hospitalized elderly

Introduction: One of the expected consequences of society aging is an increase in the number of frail elderly. Frailty if persistent, It probably has consequences for the individual and social life of the elderly in society. Therefore, the present study aimed to determine the prevalence and frailty-related factors were assessed in the elderly hospitalized. Methods: The present study is a cross-...