Wu Shannon, Leff Bruce
Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, 21205, USA.
Division of Geriatric Medicine and Gerontology, Center for Transformative Geriatric Research, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21224, USA.
Isr J Health Policy Res. 2018 May 23;7(1):27. doi: 10.1186/s13584-018-0225-0.
Frailty is associated with poorer quality of life and higher healthcare utilization and spending. Despite its importance, no clear consensus exists on the definition of frailty. The recent IJHPR article by Buch et al. significantly contributes to the advancement of Israel's understanding of frailty by estimating for the first time the prevalence of frailty in the country. This commentary discusses the context of past and current advancements in measuring frailty and discusses how frailty measurement can contribute to both clinical care and the organization of health services to care for frail older adults in Israel and other developed countries.
衰弱与较差的生活质量、更高的医疗保健利用率及支出相关。尽管其很重要，但对于衰弱的定义尚无明确的共识。Buch等人最近发表在《国际健康促进与教育研究》上的文章，通过首次估算该国衰弱的患病率，为以色列对衰弱的理解做出了重大贡献。本评论讨论了过去和当前在测量衰弱方面取得进展的背景，并讨论了衰弱测量如何有助于以色列和其他发达国家为体弱老年人提供临床护理及组织卫生服务。
