Skörhetsbegreppet viktigt för att förstå den äldre patientens behov
W Ekdahl, Anne LU
; Ekerstad, Niklas
; Alfredsson, Joakim
; Johanzon, Madelene
; Metzner, Carina
; Strandberg, Timo
; Wilhelmson, Katarina
and Cederholm, Tommy
(2020)
In Lakartidningen
117.
p.1-5
- Abstract
Frailty is a concept that is better than multimorbidity at identifying older people in need of special multidimensional care. Frailty denotes a state of accelerated biological aging in which the body gradually loses the ability to handle physical, mental and social stress. It is a dynamic condition which can be partly prevented and treated with physical exercise, nutrition and appropriate medication. They are many validated and simple screening tools for frailty. Some of these screening tools can assess the degree of frailty and thereby provide a risk stratification in for example a medical emergency. This can be used to support decisions to offer relevant medical intervention to chronologically old but biologically young people as... (More)
Frailty is a concept that is better than multimorbidity at identifying older people in need of special multidimensional care. Frailty denotes a state of accelerated biological aging in which the body gradually loses the ability to handle physical, mental and social stress. It is a dynamic condition which can be partly prevented and treated with physical exercise, nutrition and appropriate medication. They are many validated and simple screening tools for frailty. Some of these screening tools can assess the degree of frailty and thereby provide a risk stratification in for example a medical emergency. This can be used to support decisions to offer relevant medical intervention to chronologically old but biologically young people as well as to refrain from treatment in chronologically young but biologically older people.
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- author
- W Ekdahl, Anne
LU
; Ekerstad, Niklas
; Alfredsson, Joakim
; Johanzon, Madelene
; Metzner, Carina
; Strandberg, Timo
; Wilhelmson, Katarina
and Cederholm, Tommy
- organization
- alternative title
- Frailty
- publishing date
- 2020-05-11
- type
- Contribution to specialist publication or newspaper
- publication status
- published
- subject
- in
- Lakartidningen
- volume
- 117
- pages
- 1 - 5
- publisher
- Swedish Medical Association
- external identifiers
-
- pmid:32396209
- scopus:85084610398
- ISSN
- 0023-7205
- language
- Swedish
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- c5dd774f-970b-4ed7-badc-476dc328f004
- alternative location
- https://lakartidningen.se/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/F3HE.pdf
- date added to LUP
- 2021-12-15 08:06:58
- date last changed
- 2025-04-04 14:56:46
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