Frailty

David Mikhail Geriatric Medicine (NEW)
Frailty is a clinically-recognizable state of decreased reserve in older adults with increased vulnerability to acute stressors resulting from functional decline across multiple physiologic systems.

  • Functional decline includes progressive limitation in the ability to carry out basic functional activities.
  •  Frailty is associated with higher risk of in-hospital death, adverse events, length of stay, hospital readmission, and newly dependent at discharge following critical illness.

Frailty