Asia-Pacific Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Management of Frailty
Frailty is characterized by a ‘reduced strength and physiologic malfunctioning that increases an individual’s susceptibility to increased dependency, vulnerability, and death’, making it a major public health problem in the geriatric population
Due to the lack of guidelines in the treatment of frailty, a group of experts has recently consolidated and developed a set of evidence-based, multidisciplinary Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs) for the identification and management of frailty for health practitioners in the Asia-Pacific region