Health indexes like DALY´s expand the scope of health problems of frail elderly, adding additional information about health conditions who allows a better setting in order to identify main health priorities of this group.
The participating GP sends a letter to all eligible frail patients, including an information letter about the study.
However, it is likely that the elderly men and women who did not complete the survey or omitted key information were frailer, more cognitive impaired and more prone to both malnutrition and impaired mental health than the persons who were included in the study sample.
But where the city's program depends on co-op boards and building managers to help disseminate information and identify frail elderly residents, the program in New Hyde Park will rely on town employees and on local social organizations as it becomes established.
This qualitative study on how frail elderly people experience receiving information about their medications shows that two main categories might describe this situation: being comfortable with the information given and feeling secure and being insecure with information.
Additional pertinent information on the frail elderly was determined mainly from the work of Satzinger et al [ 35], the results of the discharge summary analysis conducted in Quebec GAUs [ 9], and the research team's clinical experience.
The pressures on providing care may increase for GPs because the use of the GFI instrument will provide them with information about the frail elderly who were previously unknown.
The aim of the study was to explore frail elderly patients' experiences of receiving information about their medications and their views on how the information should best be given.
Observational studies and clinical trials based on primary information often do not address frail and institutionalized individuals.
Table 2 provides information on the participants' characteristics regarding frailty status (non-frail, pre-frail, and frail).
In our study, it was also patients who were frailer who tended to provide incomplete questionnaire information.
