Relative Role of Physical Frailty and Poor Cognitive Performance in Progression to Dementia

The growing burden of dementia and its associated health care costs reinforce the importance of developing strategies for preventing dementia. Moreover, given limited resources, risk stratification that helps determine those at greatest risk of dementia can enable targeting of interventions at identified high-risk groups. Physical frailty and cognitive decline are 2 common conditions in older people that are associated with incident dementia. Results are inconsistent with not all studies finding an independent relationship between physical frailty and incident dementia after adjustment for baseline cognition.

Source: Journal of the American Medical Directors Association - March 25, 2021 Category: Health Management Authors: Chia-Lin Li, Hsing-Yi Chang, Yea-Ing L. Shyu, Fiona F. Stanaway Tags: Research Letters Source Type: research