Frailty can affect how well older adults fare following emergency surgery

(American Geriatrics Society) A new study in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society sought to gain more information about how frailty affects older adults in the months after surgery. The research team wanted to test their theory that these people would have a higher risk for death a year after surgery, have higher rates of being sent to long-term care facilities rather than to their homes, and have poorer health one year after surgery.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news