Integrating Frailty Research into the Medical Specialties—Report from a U13 Conference

Jeremy Walston; Thomas N. Robinson; Susan Zieman; Frances McFarland; Christopher R. Carpenter; Keri N. Althoff; Melissa K. Andrew; Caroline S. Blaum; Patrick J. Brown; Brian Buta; E. Wesley Ely; Luigi Ferrucci; Kevin P. High; Stephen B. Kritchevsky; Kenneth Rockwood; Kenneth E. Schmader; Felipe Sierra; Kaycee M. Sink; Ravi Varadhan; Arti Hurria

doi:10.1111/jgs.14902

Integrating Frailty Research into the Medical Specialties—Report from a U13 Conference

Jeremy Walston, Thomas N. Robinson, Susan Zieman, Frances McFarland, Christopher R. Carpenter, Keri N. Althoff, Melissa K. Andrew, Caroline S. Blaum, Patrick J. Brown, Brian Buta, E. Wesley Ely, Luigi Ferrucci, Kevin P. High, Stephen B. Kritchevsky, Kenneth Rockwood, Kenneth E. Schmader, Felipe Sierra, Kaycee M. Sink, Ravi Varadhan, Arti Hurria

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Although the field of frailty research has expanded rapidly, it is still a nascent concept within the clinical specialties. Frailty, conceptualized as greater vulnerability to stressors because of significant depletion of physiological reserves, predicts poorer outcomes in several medical specialties, including cardiology, human immunodeficiency virus care, and nephrology, and in the behavioral and social sciences. Lack of a consensus definition, proliferation of measurement tools, inadequate understanding of the biology of frailty, and lack of validated clinical algorithms for frail individuals hinders incorporation of frailty assessment and frailty research into the specialties. In 2015, the American Geriatrics Society, the National Institute on Aging (NIA), and the Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine held a conference for awardees of the NIA-sponsored Grants for Early Medical/Surgical Specialists Transition into Aging Research program to review the current state of knowledge regarding frailty in the subspecialties and to highlight examples of integrating frailty research into the medical specialties. Research questions to advance frailty research into specialty medicine are proposed.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	2134-2139
Number of pages	6
Journal	Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
Volume	65
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/jgs.14902
State	Published - Oct 2017

Keywords

biologic mechanisms
clinical manifestations
frailty
measurement
medical specialties

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Geriatrics and Gerontology

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Walston, J., Robinson, T. N., Zieman, S., McFarland, F., Carpenter, C. R., Althoff, K. N., Andrew, M. K., Blaum, C. S., Brown, P. J., Buta, B., Ely, E. W., Ferrucci, L., High, K. P., Kritchevsky, S. B., Rockwood, K., Schmader, K. E., Sierra, F., Sink, K. M., Varadhan, R., & Hurria, A. (2017). Integrating Frailty Research into the Medical Specialties—Report from a U13 Conference. Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 65(10), 2134-2139. https://doi.org/10.1111/jgs.14902

Walston, J, Robinson, TN, Zieman, S, McFarland, F, Carpenter, CR, Althoff, KN, Andrew, MK, Blaum, CS, Brown, PJ, Buta, B, Ely, EW, Ferrucci, L, High, KP, Kritchevsky, SB, Rockwood, K, Schmader, KE, Sierra, F, Sink, KM, Varadhan, R & Hurria, A 2017, 'Integrating Frailty Research into the Medical Specialties—Report from a U13 Conference', Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, vol. 65, no. 10, pp. 2134-2139. https://doi.org/10.1111/jgs.14902

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