The current study focuses on the characteristics of older people with intellectual disabilities with the lowest frailty levels. Frailty is an increased risk of adverse health outcomes and dependency. Older adults with intellectual disabilities (ID) show more signs of early frailty than the general population. Knowledge of the least frail group characteristics may provide insight into possibilit...

BACKGROUND Frailty has been recognized as an important medical syndrome in older adults. Growing literature supports the clinical application of frailty but US older adults' perceptions of frailty have not been explored. We aim to examine perceptions and informational needs about frailty among older adults. METHODS This was a qualitative study involving focus groups of community-dwelling olde...

Older adults are increasingly important to maintaining stable workforces. As such, factors contributing to early workforce exit must be identified. This study aimed to identify predictors of unexpected retirement and unemployment at older age, with respect to psychological constructs, resulting adverse behaviors, and health-related factors reflecting functional status. Data were extracted from ...

BACKGROUND Previous research on frailty in older adults has focused on morbidity and mortality. The purpose of this study was to elicit the relationship between being non-frail, pre-frail, or frail and health related quality of life in a representative sample of older Mexican Americans surveyed in 2005-2006. METHODS Data were from a representative subsample of the Hispanic Established Populat...

INTRODUCTION Physical activity (PA) is important for healthy ageing. Better insight into objectively measured PA levels in older adults is needed, since most previous studies employed self-report measures for PA assessment, which are associated with overestimation of PA. AIM This study aimed to provide insight in objectively measured indoor and outdoor PA of older adults, and in PA difference...

Abstract Objective To estimate the risk represented by combined conditions of frailty and depression in relation to mortality a cohort older adults prospective measure. Method Prospective study derived from baseline (2008/2009) follow-up (2016/2017) measurements FIBRA Study - Polo Unicamp. Data 739 (67,2% female; 73,1+5.87 years) living two urban centers state São Paulo (Brazil) were analyzed e...

Frailty is a state of decreased physical functioning and a significant complication of ageing. We examined frailty, energy and macronutrient intake, biomarkers of nutritional status and food insufficiency in US older adult (age ≥ 60 years) participants of the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (n 4731). Frailty was defined as meeting ≥ 2 and pre-frailty as meeting one of the...

Hello! We are pleased to present our third issue of The Cana-dian Geriatrics Journal for 2013. This issue examines some of the current work being done in Canada on caring for frail older adults. Dr. Robert Lam has examined retrospectively what medical issues arise in a Care of the Elderly physician's office, in an attempt to provide evidence to better match future Continuing Medical Education a...

The aim of this study was to explore and identify influences on frail older adults' experience of health. A sample of older adults, 11 men and 11 women aged 67-92, with diverse ratings of self-perceived health ranging from poor to excellent were selected through a purposeful strategic sampling of frail older adults taken from a broader sample from a quantitative study on health. In total, 22 in...