This week, our article “A new functional classification based on frailty and disability stratifies the risk for mortality among older adults: the FRADEA study” has been published on the website of the Journal of the American Medical Directors Association. In this article, we describe the validation of a new functional…
Air pollution and hand-grip strength
We have contributed to an article that was published last week in The Journals of Gerontology – Series A: Medical Sciences. The study, with the title “Association of Indoor and Outdoor Air Pollution with Hand-Grip Strength among Adults in Six Low- and Middle-Income Countries” was conducted by Hualiang Lin and…
New publication on frailty trajectories
One of the objectives of The Frailty Project is to increase epidemiological insights into developments in frailty during later life. In the September 2018 issue of the scientific journal Age and Ageing we have published on changes in frailty during later life. Using data from the Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam…
