Frailty trajectory over one year among residential aged care (nursing home) residents

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    Subsidises a range of aged care services including care in the home, short-term care, and residential aged care. The two most common operational definitions of frailty are the Frailty Index which is based on the deficit accumulation approach and the frailty phenotype based primarily on physical components. The majority of population-based studies examining frailty trajectory found a linear increase in frailty over time. Studies that attempted to group frailty progression found that frailty trajectories can be broadly categorised into three types: rapidly increasing, moderately increasing, and stable frailty. The authors graphically represent . . .

     

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