Clinical management of frailty: advances and challenges

Isabel Rodríguez Sánchez; Alejandro Alvarez-Bustos; Mariam El Assar de la Fuente; Leocadio Rodríguez-Mañas

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Clinical management of frailty: advances and challenges

Isabel Rodríguez Sánchez
, Alejandro Alvarez-Bustos
, Mariam El Assar de la Fuente
, Leocadio Rodríguez-Mañas

University of Bedfordshire

Hospital Clínico San Carlos de Madrid
CIBER of Frailty and Healthy Aging (CIBERFES)
Universitario de Getafe
Hospital Universitario de Getafe

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Frailty was first described in the general population living in the community. Its characteristics, components, underlying mechanisms, screening and diagnostic criteria, prognosis, and indeed prevention and treatment have been developed and tested usually in older people in non-clinical settings. However, many of the adverse outcomes are closely related with events leading to clinical settings or taking place in those settings, so it is not surprising that the prevalence of frailty is extremely high in hospital and other clinical environments, being hospitalization one of the main factors accounting for the poor prognosis of older frail people.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Frailty Syndrome
Subtitle of host publication	Basic and Clinical Aspects
Editors	María Carmen Gómez-Cabrera, José Viña, Leocadio Rodríguez-Mañas
Publisher	CRC Press
Pages	8-35
Number of pages	28
ISBN (Electronic)	9781040417980
ISBN (Print)	9781032503882
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003398295-2
Publication status	Published - 4 Sept 2025

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General Biochemistry,Genetics and Molecular Biology

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Clinical management of frailty: advances and challenges. / Sánchez, Isabel Rodríguez; Alvarez-Bustos, Alejandro; de la Fuente, Mariam El Assar et al.
Frailty Syndrome: Basic and Clinical Aspects. ed. / María Carmen Gómez-Cabrera; José Viña; Leocadio Rodríguez-Mañas. CRC Press, 2025. p. 8-35.

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