Sentence examples for participating frail from inspiring English sources

Trained interviewers visited the participating frail patients at home.

Of the participating frail older people and informal caregivers, only 62 had used the offered but not obligatory visits by a volunteer to explain the ZWIP, 63% of GPs (19 of 30) had always or often called their frail older patients themselves to ask them to participate in the screening.

Data collected included the numbers of older people screened, the number of participants, the number of messages sent, the number of professionals participating in a frail older person's ZWIP, the number of participants who logged on to the ZWIP, the number of calls to the telephonic helpdesk and the number of visits to frail older people by volunteers.

Patients were excluded from the study if they were unwilling to participate, were too frail to tolerate a physical examination, or were deemed by any member of the clinic team to be unable to comprehend the study procedure.

Carers nominated by the frail older person participating in a frailty intervention were invited to participate.

In addition to the evidence of an overall benefit from participating in the CDSMP in frail older adults, on Mastery directly after the intervention and on Valuation of Life after 6 months, we also found that low educational level and good cognitive functioning increase the likelihood of profiting from the program on coping and well-being outcomes.

The participating GP sends a letter to all eligible frail patients, including an information letter about the study.

The carers of the frail older people receiving the intervention showed a sustained improvement in health scores whilst participating in the study, whereas the health scores of carers of the frail older people in the control group decreased.

Attrition is a major problem in studies of older persons since participants may die during the study or are too frail to participate in follow-up examinations.

3– 5 Longitudinal studies among the oldest old, however, typically suffer from incompleteness of data; attrition is a major challenge since these very elderly participants may die during the study or become too frail to participate in follow-up examinations.

Simply requiring study participants to show up at an office or clinic for regular monitoring may prevent frail elders or those who lack transportation from participating.