With the increasing number of elderly persons and because of the health policy, the home care needs of the frail elderly persons are increasing in Japan.
The length of stay of the frail patient is shorter and this may be because as intensivists we are better at treatment limitation in this group of patients.
Pre-frail participants had intermediate scores between the scores of the frail and non-frail participants.
None of the frail subjects had a 100%% Karnofsky score.
Phenotypic definitions of frailty tend to dichotomise or trichotomise participants (e.g. "frail", "pre-frail" or "non frail" [24]) and may exclude many of the "frailest" participants who are unable to complete performance based tests [39].
It is also, their incongruous, valiant memorials suggest, because of a frail determination to leave a mark in a hostile world for the bereaved as well as the deceased.
Herzer's legal team contends that Redstone last fall came under undue influence by those around him because of his frail and weakened state.
Further, the incidence of osteoporosis in the frail group was 100%%, compared to the 15.3 % in the non-frail group.
However, it might be possible that bias of the population group influenced the HHS after 5 years, because the frailest patients had died and healthy patients survived.
It is debatable if this "Hawthorne-effect" is really problematic because increased and patient-centered attention for the frail elderly is one of the goals of the model.
