Ageing, Frailty and Health Care Expenditures
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In the context of an ageing population and rising health care expenditures, frailty emerges as an interesting notion regarding the consequences of ageing for both health professionals and regulatory policies. It is defi ned as a decrease in the resistance of the person dealing with stress, which increases her vulnerability and exposes her to the risk of adverse health outcomes, such as falls, and progression towards functional dependence. So far, some of the rise in health expenditure was often attributed to a mechanical eff ect of age, which failed to take into account the concept of frailty in multivariate analyses. The same age category could indeed conceal diff erent individual situations. Could frailty contribute to reveal these diff erences?
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