Self-rated frailty, resilience, and mortality of old men: the Manitoba follow-up study

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2019-04-02
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Sachs, Elizabeth
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Older adults self-rating of frailty, an experience that results in increased risk of disability, hospitalization, and mortality, was examined in this thesis. The objectives were to assess the validity of self-rated frailty, examine the possibility of recovering from a frail state (i.e evidence for resiliency), and determine whether self-rated frailty relates to mortality. The Clinical Frailty Scale was used as a simple self-rating of frailty among 146 male participants of a cohort study of aging, the Manitoba Follow-up Study. Self-ratings of “moderate-severe” frailty were associated with worse measures of physical health and functional impairment, thus supporting the validity of self-rated frailty. The proportion of men who reported an improvement in their self-rated frailty over one or two years was significant (p<0.05). The Hazard Ratio for mortality was 3.3 (95% CI: 1.5, 7.1) for those who rated themselves as “mildly to severely frail” vs. “very fit or well, with no disease”.
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Frailty, Old men, Manitoba Follow-up Study
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