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Integrating Frailty Research into the Medical Specialties-Report from a U13 Conference
- Source :
- Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 65:2134-2139
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 2017.
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Abstract
- Although the field of frailty research has expanded rapidly, it is still a nascent concept within the clinical specialties. Frailty, conceptualized as increased vulnerability to stressors because of significant depletion of physiological reserves, predicts poorer outcomes in several medical specialties, including cardiology, HIV care, nephrology, and in the behavioral and social sciences. Incorporation of frailty assessment and frailty research into the specialties is hindered by a lack of a consensus definition, by the proliferation of measurement tools, inadequate understanding of the biology of frailty, and lack of validated clinical algorithms for patients who have frailty. In 2015, the American Geriatrics Society, the National Institute on Aging (NIA) and the Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine held a conference for awardees of the NIA sponsored ‘Grants for Early Medical/Surgical Specialists Transition into Aging Research (GEMSSTAR)’1 program to review the current state of the knowledge regarding frailty in the sub-specialties, as well as to highlight key examples of integrating frailty research into the medical specialties. Key research questions to advance frailty research into specialty medicine are proposed.
- Subjects :
- Gerontology
Research program
medicine.medical_specialty
Biomedical Research
Frail Elderly
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
Specialty
Vulnerability
030204 cardiovascular system & hematology
medicine.disease_cause
Article
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Humans
Medicine
030212 general & internal medicine
Geriatric Assessment
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Geriatrics
business.industry
Stressor
Congresses as Topic
3. Good health
Frailty assessment
Research questions
Geriatrics and Gerontology
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00028614
- Volume :
- 65
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....0530dc7b7760984ce9a54b48e64b854d