Frailty – Prediction of quality of life in a two year follow-up

Frailty is a state of high vulnerability that entails a high risk of clinically significant adverse outcomes. Traditional approaches define frailty as an exclusively physical condition. More recently, frailty has been defined by Gobbens as a multidimensional state as affecting the individual, who experiences loss of one or more domains of human functioning (physical, psychological, or social). To examine how frailty (measured as a multidimensional state contributes to the prediction of life quality in a two year follow-up, in a sample of community-dwelling elderly.