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 33 publications over 17 distinct years, with a maximum of 4 publications in 2016 and 2017

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1996	0	1	1
1997	1	0	1
2001	1	0	1
2005	2	0	2
2006	1	2	3
2007	1	1	2
2008	1	1	2
2009	2	0	2
2012	1	0	1
2014	0	1	1
2015	0	3	3
2016	1	3	4
2017	4	0	4
2019	0	1	1
2020	0	1	1
2021	2	1	3
2023	0	1	1

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Kuczmarski MF, Beydoun MA, Georgescu MF, Noren Hooten N, Mode NA, Evans MK, Zonderman AB. Pro-Inflammatory Diets Are Associated with Frailty in an Urban Middle-Aged African American and White Cohort. Nutrients. 2023 Oct 29; 15(21).

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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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Kroll NL, Sanchez-Jones T, Atchley MD, Etcher L. COVID-19 and the golden years. Nurse Pract. 2021 06 01; 46(6):37-42.

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Kitzman DW, Whellan DJ, Duncan P, Pastva AM, Mentz RJ, Reeves GR, Nelson MB, Chen H, Upadhya B, Reed SD, Espeland MA, Hewston L, O'Connor CM. Physical Rehabilitation for Older Patients Hospitalized for Heart Failure. N Engl J Med. 2021 07 15; 385(3):203-216.

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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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Travers JL, Teitelman AM, Jenkins KA, Castle NG. Exploring social-based discrimination among nursing home certified nursing assistants. Nurs Inq. 2020 01; 27(1):e12315.

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Maurer MS, Horn E, Reyentovich A, Dickson VV, Pinney S, Goldwater D, Goldstein NE, Jimenez O, Teruya S, Goldsmith J, Helmke S, Yuzefpolskaya M, Reeves GR. Can a Left Ventricular Assist Device in Individuals with Advanced Systolic Heart Failure Improve or Reverse Frailty? J Am Geriatr Soc. 2017 Nov; 65(11):2383-2390.

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Sundaram V, Lim J, Tholey DM, Iriana S, Kim I, Manne V, Nissen NN, Klein AS, Tran TT, Ayoub WS, Schlansky B. The Braden Scale, A standard tool for assessing pressure ulcer risk, predicts early outcomes after liver transplantation. Liver Transpl. 2017 09; 23(9):1153-1160.

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Joseph SM, Manghelli JL, Vader JM, Keeney T, Novak EL, Felius J, Martinez SC, Nassif ME, Lima B, Silvestry SC, Rich MW. Prospective Assessment of Frailty Using the Fried Criteria in Patients Undergoing Left Ventricular Assist Device Therapy. Am J Cardiol. 2017 Oct 15; 120(8):1349-1354.

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Kotajarvi BR, Schafer MJ, Atkinson EJ, Traynor MM, Bruce CJ, Greason KL, Suri RM, Miller JD, LeBrasseur NK. The Impact of Frailty on Patient-Centered Outcomes Following Aortic Valve Replacement. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2017 Jul 01; 72(7):917-921.

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