Frailty in the Elderly: Issues and Challenges
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Aging".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (16 August 2023) | Viewed by 45354
Special Issue Editors
Interests: frailty; health problems; assessment of human needs and of older adults; nutritional status of older patients; quality of life related to health; multidisciplinary care
Interests: mental health; psychogeriatrics; depression; older adults; geriatrics; COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; fear; anxiety
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Interests: chronic pain; older people; health problems; the problems of an aging society; quality of life related to health; nutritional status of older patients
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Dear Colleagues,
The population of older adults is constantly growing, both in Europe and all over the world. The most common medical problems faced by older people are reduced functional capability and morbidities. Fried et al., pioneers in the study of frailty syndrome, define it as “a biologic syndrome of decreased reserve and resistance to stressors, resulting from cumulative declines across multiple physiologic systems, and causing vulnerability to adverse outcomes”. According to Fried et al., symptoms that identify frailty syndrome are undesired loss in body mass, reduced muscle strength, exhaustion, slowness, and low physical activity. According to gerontologists, frailty syndrome is marked by reduced immunity to stressors, resulting in the exhaustion of functional reserves of the organism, which leads to frailty. The definition of frailty by Gobbens, Luijkx, Wijnen-Sponselee, and Schols expresses this multidimensional approach and describes frailty as a dynamic state affecting an individual who experiences losses in one or more domains of human functioning (physical, psychological, social), which is caused by the influence of a range of variables and which increases the risk of adverse outcomes. The incidence of frailty in European society is between 5.8% and 27.3%, whereas the pre-frail condition occurs in 34.6% to 50.9% of the older adult population.
Researchers and practitioners in this field have also been investigating advances in frailty care and management, including diagnosis, prevention, treatment and multi-morbidity.
This Topical Collection is open to submissions concerning health care and frailty. The keywords listed below provide an outline of some of the possible areas of interest.
Prof. Dr. Marta Muszalik
Dr. Mateusz Cybulski
Dr. Grażyna Puto
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- frailty syndrome
- frailty
- risk factors
- prevention
- geriatric patient
- epidemiology
- multi-morbidity
- older adults
- multidisciplinary care
- care intervention
- living with frailty
- Pain
- nutrition assessment
- geriatric assessment
- sleep disorders
- psycho-social problems
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