RCPE symposium – Medicine of the Older Person
The Medicine of the Older Person symposium was held on Thursday 19 March 2020 at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
The Medicine of the Older Person symposium was held on Thursday 19 March 2020 at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
Objectives: To determine if a risk score developed in hospitalised older adults in the UK in 1962 is correlated with other measures of health and if this risk score predicts death or institutionalisation in community-living older adults.
Frailty is a progressive physiological decline in multiple organ systems marked by loss of function, loss of physiological reserve and increased vulnerability to disease and death. Frail older adults are vulnerable to poor health outcomes including an increased risk of disability, social isolation and institutionalisation. With the advances in understanding of the physiological underpinnings and clinical measurement of frailty over the past decade, opportunities both to streamline and quantify the clinical measurement and care planning associated with frailty have emerged.