Association of Centre of Excellence Self- Administered Questionnaire Score and Frailty Levels
Last updated on July 2021Recruitment
- Recruitment Status
- Active, not recruiting
- Estimated Enrollment
- Same as current
Summary
- Conditions
- Cognitive Decline
- Fall Injury
- Frailty
- Injuries
- Type
- Observational
- Design
- Observational Model: CohortTime Perspective: Prospective
Participation Requirements
- Age
- Between 65 years and 125 years
- Gender
- Both males and females
Description
Age is broadly recognized to confer a risk for health adverse outcomes, but it is an insensitive and non-specific measure for use in individual decision-making. Frailty has been emerging to take its rightful place as a better measure for over past decades. Despite general consensus that the concept ...
Age is broadly recognized to confer a risk for health adverse outcomes, but it is an insensitive and non-specific measure for use in individual decision-making. Frailty has been emerging to take its rightful place as a better measure for over past decades. Despite general consensus that the concept of frailty is clinically useful, the lack of agreement on its definition and the challenge of its measurement by front-line health providers mean that frailty remains only 'their apparent' to chronological age as a criterion to select older persons at risk.
Tracking Information
- NCT #
- NCT03991806
- Collaborators
- Not Provided
- Investigators
- Principal Investigator: Olivier Beauchet, MD Jewish General Hospital
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