And lump-sum premiums may prove a particularly hard sell: in a Populus poll for Saga, a firm specialising in services to the over-50s, only 6% preferred this option.Yet some answer must be found to the escalating expense of looking after an increasingly old and frail population.
Little is known about anxiety in aged care populations, despite its increase in this frail population.
Once classified into frail and non-frail we looked at ICU outcome, length of stay, APACHE, weight on admission, lowest albumin and admission haemoglobin and compared the frail population to the non-frail population.
Elderly persons with headache are a frail population with high comorbidity and multiple drug therapies that can represent a challenge for physicians involved in pain management.
To determine if troponin I and NT-proBNP were predictors of 6-month mortality after emergency orthopedic-geriatric surgery in a frail population.
In elderly hemodialysis patients, protein-energy wasting is associated with poor outcome; however, the association between body mass index (BMI) changes over time, and survival has been seldom studied in this particularly frail population.
The PACE model has clearly demonstrated that in a debilitated, frail population in whom health care expenses would be expect to be high, a combination of team care, managed health care services, and care coordination can lead to both improved health outcomes and reduced expenses over time.
Phase-contrast Magnetic Resonance Imaging flow has the advantage to avoid intravenous injection of contrast media in this frail population.
As an illustration, in Abou-alfa study focusing on this frail population, only one out of 137 patients receiving sorafenib develops a grade 5 intracranial haemorrhage [32].
The reasons behind the exceptionally high case-fatality rate in the 1918 influenza pandemic have been associated to the virus pathogenesis [10] [12], the absence of antibiotics to treat secondary bacteremia infections [13], [14] and to a debilitated health care system, exhausted by a frail population found at the end of World War I [3].
The effectiveness of exercise in the frail population is documented [ 22, 23, 57, 58].
