To improve proactive care for this vulnerable group, various frailty measures have been suggested.
Table 4 describes the predictive power of various frailty syndrome models for within-spell inpatient mortality (range of AUCs 0.624 0.659).
Despite considerable research on frailty, there is still debate on the nature, definition, prevalence, and the characteristics of older people in various frailty 'stages' [ 1, 3].
"Train of Fools" is a darker variation on the same topic, with a foreboding, grinding guitar part and compressed portraits of various human frailties, from vanity to cruelty to greed ("One will be a rich man, at least that's what he'll say / Waste his life chasing after gold").
5, 6 The assessment of frailty using various methods, including the Frailty Index, is being incorporated in recent studies of older adults and provides an insight into their accumulated deficits and reduced reserve.
For this reason, an assessment of the various dimensions of frailty is obviously needed.
Alternatively, the Geriatric Status Scale [ 54] combines aspects of cognitive and functional performance to describe various degrees of frailty from "robust" to "severely frail" to predict death or need for institutional care.
What further conditions share this status or help avoid less deleterious deficiencies such as the epistemic frailty various reflection principles guard against (Briggs 2009)—is an active research area.
It is shown that a road must interact closely and carefully with the terrain and community through which it passes, with changing vehicle technology, with information technologies, and with the various abilities, deficiencies, and frailties of the individual driver.
For example for the review of risk factors for frailty, dealing with the numerous risk factors identified for the various different definitions of frailty created an unwieldy matrix of results that could not be summarized in a single review.
