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FRAIL Frailty Scale
The FRAIL Scale is a brief, five-item clinical screening tool developed by John E. Morley and colleagues to identify frailty in older adults. Designed as a simple and efficient alternative to more comprehensive frailty assessments, it incorporates the key domains of the frailty phenotype: fatigue, resistance, ambulation, illness, and weight loss. The FRAIL Scale is widely used in primary care, hospital, and long-term care settings to stratify risk and guide management decisions.
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- Morley, J. E., Vellas, B., van Kan, G. A., et al. (2013). Frailty consensus: a call to action. J Am Med Dir Assoc, 14(6), 392-397. DOI: 10.1016/j.jamda.2013.03.022 ↗
- Abellan van Kan, G., Rolland, Y., Bergman, H., et al. (2008). The I.A.N.A Task Force on frailty assessment of older people in clinical practice. J Nutr Health Aging, 12(1), 29-37. DOI: 10.1007/BF02982161 ↗
- Morley, J. E., Haren, M. T., Rolland, Y., & Kim, M. J. (2012). Frailty. Med Clin North Am, 96(2), 395-399. DOI: 10.1016/j.mcna.2012.02.002 ↗