Frailty

Recognition of frailty in the older patient should prompt the clinician to consider palliative-type interventions in a planned fashion. The authors talk of the prescence of 3 of 5 features as significant for frailty

loss of strength
weight loss
low levels of activity
poor endurance or fatigue
slowed performance


"There Are Things I Can't Do Anymore That I Wish I Could . . . "