Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery, King's College London, London, UK.
Division of Medical Sciences and Graduate Entry Medicine, University of Nottingham, Medical School, Royal Derby Hospital, Uttoxeter Road, DerbyDE22 3DT, UK.
Age Ageing. 2017 May 1;46(3):349-351. doi: 10.1093/ageing/afw224.
This commentary discusses the perception of frailty by different key stakeholders-most notably older people. It considers the need to integrate predominantly medically driven understandings of frailty within a wider conceptual framework. This is imperative if the potential of frailty as a construct, around which the optimisation of health and well-being of older people can take place, is to be realised.
本评论讨论了不同主要利益相关者(尤其是老年人)对虚弱的看法。它考虑了将主要由医学驱动的虚弱理解纳入更广泛的概念框架的必要性。如果要实现虚弱作为一个构建体的潜力,围绕这个构建体可以优化老年人的健康和福祉,那么这一点至关重要。