Predictive Capacity of Frailty Phenotype Toward Patterns of Disability Identified Using Latent Class Analysis

Frailty phenotype (FP) has low sensitivity toward the identification of older people who will lose 1 or more activities of daily living. Nevertheless, the definition of disability in terms of activities of  daily living may not resemble the pattern of functional impairment occurring during aging. The aim of this study was to examine the discriminative capacity of the FP toward the identification of patterns of disabilities in an extended list of tasks, identified among community-dwelling older people .

Source: Journal of the American Medical Directors Association - February 13, 2019 Category: Health Management Authors: Luisa Costanzo, Matteo Cesari, Luigi Ferrucci, Stefania Bandinelli, Raffaele Antonelli Incalzi, Claudio Pedone Tags: Original Study Source Type: research