Issues in Frailty

Harvard HSPH

While frailty is not a medical diagnosis and has no accepted definition, it is a key and growing concern in geriatric care and research in older adults. This course will examine the thematic issues related to frailty, including the idea of frailty as the consequence of failure to compensate for physiological stress in aging adults. The sessions will start with theme of failure to compensate and how this results in frailty as an outcome and quality of life, with a focus on methodological…