Multidimensional Frailty: The Role of Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment

Dear Colleagues,

Recently there has been extensive literature that suggested that frailty should be identified using a multidimensional approach, a novel approach that permits to better understand the needs of older people. For example, the prevalence of frailty and pre-frailty in older populations, using the multidimensional prognostic index (MPI), a product of the comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) are extremely high, particularly in some settings, such as nursing homes and hospitals. Moreover, a multidimensional approach could be useful in identifying the pathophysiological mechanisms of clinical frailty useful to understand the trajectory from healthy aging to frailty, including the role of the individual response to chronic diseases that seems to be associated with clinical frailty. 

In this Special Issue, we invite authors to submit works regarding the importance and use of CGA in older people for a better understanding of frailty from a multidimensional point of view, including the functional and psychosocial, as well as the biological and genetic factors related to clinical frailty. Both reviews (narrative or systematic) and original works (also in terms of intervention studies) are welcome for this Special Issue.

Dr. Nicola Veronese
Prof. Dr. Alberto Pilotto
Guest Editors

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