Q. #frailty In it's purest form w/force issues aside. Should geriatricians see all ages? Or frail >75yrs as well as all non frail >90yrs?
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that's my personal opinion but keen to hear other perspectives
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I think your specialty used age as a crude screening tool for frailty and multimorbidity. Better screening tools now?
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no consensus model at mo is my understanding
@rowan_wallace@GrahamEllis247 will know better than me -
evidence not there other than for CGA. And localities are all different in service provision.
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Is the evidence there for age as a cutoff?
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only so far as the studies in the CGA systematic review were >65 years.
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some older people can run marathons. Some can't get to the loo. Don't treat all the same...
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agree. So is there a movement to stop defining geriatrics as a speciality by age?
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under 65s and over 85s very different. Frailty not same as disability or complexity.
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I think I see frail 60 yr olds. Agree not same as comorbidity.
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certainly plenty of evidence that dialysis pts are frail at much younger ages
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