Frailty Assessment

For defining frailty, the results of this study are consistent with previous critical systematic review of frailty assessment instruments (Buta et al., 2016; Dent, Kowal, & Hoogendijk, 2016). Findings show that the main frailty concepts as the Fried’s frailty phenotype and the accumulation deficit models were frequently utilized to delineate frailty. Our results reveal the six unique frailty assessment tools in the clinical setting for this particular population, but they share some common components with others. The most common components of frailty assessment are a physical function, fatigue, weight loss, cognition function, and comorbidity. These findings resonated the recent analysis that frailty was jointly common in its nature, but the