ABSTRACT
Variability in the risk of death of people of the same age is frailty. In general, people are frail when they have a lot wrong with them, or more technically, when they have accumulated a lot of deficits. Frailty shapes and directs the care needs of older adults, making it a key concept in contemporary health care, in which many patients are aged 65 years and older. Frailty, the noun is easy to recognise as unmeasured heterogeneity in risk—, the risk for adverse health outcomes of people of the same age. The highest standard for identifying frailty has always been considered a comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA). Beyond a CGA, two approaches to measuring frailty can be seen as either a syndromic/phenotypic or a health-deficit accumulation approach. Early recognition and management of health issues is important in frail individuals. Frailty is a clinically important phenomenon, even if perceived as a negative term.
