2019
DOI: 10.1080/21556660.2019.1612409
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The burden of frailty in older people visiting GPs in Veneto and Sicily, Italy

Abstract: Context: In Italy, little is known about the territorial distribution of the frailty status. Aims: To compare frailty- and multimorbidity-prevalence in the elderly population of two Italian regions. Methods: This study examined randomized samples of elderly (both community dwelling and institutionalized) assisted by general practitioners. Frailty was evaluated through the CSHA-Scale, multimorbidity through the Charlson-Score. The relation between frail… Show more

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