March 22, 2010Open Access

Prevalence and 10‐Year Outcomes of Frailty in Older Adults in Relation to Deficit Accumulation

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The prevalence of frailty increases with age and at any age lessens survival. The Frailty Index approach readily identifies frail people at risk of death, presumably because of its use of multiple health deficits in multidimensional domains.

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Xiaowei Song

Arnold Mitnitski

Kenneth Rockwood

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Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

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Dalhousie University

National Research Council Institute for Biodiagnostics

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Prevalence and 10‐Year Outcomes of Frailty in Older Adults in Relation to Deficit Accumulation

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