Frail Elderly

"Frail Elderly" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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Older adults or aged individuals who are lacking in general strength and are unusually susceptible to disease or to other infirmity.

Descriptor ID	D016330
MeSH Number(s)	M01.060.116.100.540
Concept/Terms	Frail Elderly Frail Elderly Elderly, Frail Frail Elders Elder, Frail Elders, Frail Frail Elder Functionally-Impaired Elderly Functionally-Impaired Elderly Elderly, Functionally-Impaired Functionally Impaired Elderly Frail Older Adults Frail Older Adults Adult, Frail Older Adults, Frail Older Frail Older Adult Older Adult, Frail Older Adults, Frail

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Named Groups [M]
Persons [M01]
Age Groups [M01.060]
Adult [M01.060.116]
Aged [M01.060.116.100]
Frail Elderly [M01.060.116.100.540]

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Bar chart showing 19 publications over 12 distinct years, with a maximum of 4 publications in 2022

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
2007	1	1	2
2008	1	0	1
2014	1	0	1
2015	0	2	2
2016	1	0	1
2017	2	1	3
2019	1	0	1
2020	0	1	1
2021	1	0	1
2022	0	4	4
2023	0	1	1
2024	0	1	1

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Hunzinger KJ, Walter AE, Rosenthal KA, Windham BG, Palta P, Juraschek SP, Hicks CW, Gottesman RF, Schneider ALC. Associations Between Prior Head Injury, Physical Functioning, and Frailty in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2024 04 01; 79(4).

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Lundy ME, Zhang B, Ditillo M. Management of the Geriatric Trauma Patient. Surg Clin North Am. 2024 Apr; 104(2):423-436.

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Lombardo J, Schmucker AM, Keith SW, Ronghe A, Smith A, Ali AS, Niazi M, Denton M, Swartz K, Chapman A, Simone NL. Markers and associations of nutrition identified in a senior adult oncology clinic. J Geriatr Oncol. 2023 01; 14(1):101388.

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Wanigatunga AA, Cai Y, Urbanek JK, Mitchell CM, Roth DL, Miller ER, Michos ED, Juraschek SP, Walston J, Xue QL, Appel LJ, Schrack JA. Objectively Measured Patterns of Daily Physical Activity and Phenotypic Frailty. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2022 09 01; 77(9):1882-1889.

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Semelka CT, DeWitt ME, Callahan KE, Herrington DM, Alexander-Miller MA, Yukich JO, Munawar I, McCurdy LH, Gibbs MA, Weintraub WS, Sanders JW. Frailty and COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine Antibody Response in the COVID-19 Community Research Partnership. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2022 07 05; 77(7):1366-1370.

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Udell JA, Lu D, Bagai A, Dodson JA, Desai NR, Fonarow GC, Goyal A, Garratt KN, Lucas J, Weintraub WS, Forman DE, Roe MT, Alexander KP. Preexisting frailty and outcomes in older patients with acute myocardial infarction. Am Heart J. 2022 07; 249:34-44.

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Sibona A, Bianchi C, Leong B, Caputo B, Kohne C, Murga A, Patel ST, Abou-Zamzam AM, Teruya T. A single center's 15-year experience with palliative limb care for chronic limb threatening ischemia in frail patients. J Vasc Surg. 2022 03; 75(3):1014-1020.e1.

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Angelo M, Vass R, Flores Vazquez I, Pierre D, Del Vecchio T, Souder E. Association Between Outpatient Rehabilitation Therapy and Total Cost of Care for a Frail Elderly Population in a Medicare Accountable Care Organization. Popul Health Manag. 2021 02; 24(1):110-115.

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Kwok CS, Achenbach S, Curzen N, Fischman DL, Savage M, Bagur R, Kontopantelis E, Martin GP, Steg PG, Mamas MA. Relation of Frailty to Outcomes in Percutaneous Coronary Intervention. Cardiovasc Revasc Med. 2020 07; 21(7):811-818.

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Malekpour M, Bridgham K, Jaap K, Erwin R, Widom K, Rapp M, Leonard D, Baro S, Dove J, Hunsinger M, Blansfield J, Shabahang M, Torres D, Wild J. The Effect of Sarcopenia on Outcomes in Geriatric Blunt Trauma. Am Surg. 2017 Nov 01; 83(11):1203-1208.

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