Frailty at the emergency department (2)

This week, Carmen van Dam will defend her PhD thesis “Beyond the Frailty threshold: from Screening to Insight” at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Her thesis consists of several papers on frailty measurement at the emergency department. We contributed as co-author to several papers, published, amongst others, in Annals of Emergency…

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Frailty at the Emergency Department (1)

Last month, the results of a Delphi study on core requirements of frailty screening in the emergency department was published in Age and Ageing. Although consensus was reached on various aspects, more research is needed to establish optimal frailty screening in the emergency department. We participated in the Delphi panel,…

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Frailty trajectories prior to death

In a recent article, in collaboration with researchers from the UK and Canada, we have published on frailty trajectories in the years prior to death, using data from 8,317 deceased participants of the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe (SHARE). We found that the progression of frailty before…

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Measurement and management of sarcopenia

Sarcopenia is an age-related loss of muscle mass associated with frailty and decreased function. It is recognized with an ICD-10 code. Still the condition remains controversial as demonstrated by a critical appraisal by Danish reseachers published earlier this year in the BMJ: https://lnkd.in/eexpmJF8  Last year, we have published two papers…

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Frailty among the oldest old

Recently, we have published an article in Age and Ageing on frailty trajectories among the oldest old. In particular, the study investigated wheter frailty change is a better predictor of mortality than measuring frailty only once, using more intensive data (five assessments with 9-month intervals) and a more advanced statistical…

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Frailty among older immigrants and native Dutch

The final version of our paper “Inequalities in Frailty Among Older Turkish and Moroccan Immigrants and Native Dutch: Data from the Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam” has been published in the Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health (April, 2022). In this study, we investigated frailty among Turkish and Moroccan immigrants and…

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Explaining the frailty-mortality association

Recently, we have published a paper in Preventive Medicine Reports with data from the Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam, in which we aimed to explain the association between frailty en mortality in older adults. We considered a broad range of lifestyle, social, psychological, cognitive and physical factors. In both older men…

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Predictors of frailty and vitality

In January 2021, we have published a new paper on frailty and vitality among older adults aged 75+, using data from the Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam. The paper, published in peer-reviewed journal Gerontology, was written by the postdoc on this project, Dr. Sascha de Breij. In this paper, we used…

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