Cognitive Frailty: Far From Clinical and Research Adoption

The concept of cognitive frailty was originally proposed to describe a clinical condition characterized by the occurrence of both physical frailty and cognitive impairment, in the absence of overt dementia diagnosis.1 Its conception was motivated by the attempt to delineate an entity in which the impairment of cognitive functioning is not primarily sustained by neurologic diseases and/or neurodegeneration, but fundamentally driven by a decline in the physical domain of the individual. Thus, the underlying rationale for such novel framework was the need of tentatively improving the discrimination of risk profiles among the heterogeneous trajectories of the aging process and providing more personalized preventive and/or therapeutic options.

Source: Journal of the American Medical Directors Association - August 23, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Marco Canevelli, Matteo Cesari Tags: Editorial Source Type: research