To determine whether frailty is associated with activities of daily living (ADL) and other clinical outcomes in hospitalized older adults.
To examine the longitudinal association between possible sarcopenia and subsequent cognitive function in older Chinese adults and whether a 27‐item frailty index accounted for this association.
To identify individual and institutional characteristics that are associated with the quality of life (QoL) of institutionalized older adults aged 60 and above in Portuguese nursing homes.
Cognitive frailty is common among community-dwelling older adults worldwide and systematic identification and targeted multi-domain interventions should be prioritized in aging societies.
Fracture-associated ADL decline did not clearly vary across Fried scores, and Frailty informed prognosis; functional assessment remained relevant at all scores.
[This corrects the article DOI: 10.7759/cureus.83219.].
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