Abstract
Frailty: time for a new approach to health care?
Highlights
In The Lancet Healthy Longevity, Joanna Blodgett and colleagues[1] provide important evidence that frailty can be observed and measured in younger age groups, and is perhaps more relevant for predicting health outcomes than age
Except for women aged younger than 35 years, the results show an overall increase in mean frailty levels in all age groups for both men and women, accompanied by stable frailty lethality, from 1999 to 2018 in the USA
If the impact of frailty in younger age groups on health systems is similar to that of age-related frailty, a radical approach that reconsiders our notions of a healthy lifestyle are required
Summary
In The Lancet Healthy Longevity, Joanna Blodgett and colleagues[1] provide important evidence that frailty can be observed and measured in younger age groups (ie, in individuals aged ≥20 years), and is perhaps more relevant for predicting health outcomes than age.
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