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Self-rated Frailty, Resilience, and Mortality of Old Men

其他書名	The Manitoba Follow-up Study
出版	University of Manitoba, 2019
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=ztWmzwEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋Older adults self-rating of frailty, an experience that results in increased risk of disability, hospitalization, and mortality, was examined in this thesis. The objectives were to assess the validity of self-rated frailty, examine the possibility of recovering from a frail state (i.e evidence for resiliency), and determine whether self-rated frailty relates to mortality. The Clinical Frailty Scale was used as a simple self-rating of frailty among 146 male participants of a cohort study of aging, the Manitoba Follow-up Study. Self-ratings of "moderate-severe" frailty were associated with worse measures of physical health and functional impairment, thus supporting the validity of self-rated frailty. The proportion of men who reported an improvement in their self-rated frailty over one or two years was significant (p