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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Trends in frailty and mortality (1995-2016)
We have published an article on trends in frailty and its association with mortality among older adults in the American Journal of Epidemiology, a leading journal in the field. In this study, we investigated trends in frailty and its relationship with mortality among older adults aged 64–84 years across a…
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…
Factsheet Vitaliteit 75+
[IN DUTCH] Recent hebben we een Factsheet gepubliceerd over Vitaliteit bij ouderen van 75 jaar en ouder. Download de Factsheet hier.
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…
