Concept of Fraility

Concept of Frailty
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Concept of Frailty
Frailty refers to a state of diminished strength and reduced physiological function among the elderly. A condition that commonly leads to death. At this point, the elderly become weak, loss weight unintentionally, and become slower during movements (Wilson et al., 2017). A positive correlation exists between frailty and disability. With an increased level of frailty, there is a subsequent increase in a person’s level of disability. One of the key factors that play a role in this condition is sarcopenia, which is a syndrome that is identified by generalized as well as the advanced loss of skeletal body muscles (Boers et al., 2015). The old experience immune senescence, which is a decline in immune function leading to reduced vaccine reactions and increased vulnerability to common infections.The concept of frailty can be used by researchers and gerontologists to identify adults who are at the risk of disability. Primarily, this enables distinction between those who are sick as a result of bacterial or viral infection from those who are aging (Kinchin et al., 2017). It is clear and easier to distinguish the two because with frailty it appears somewhat a semi-permanent condition, arising only among the elderly irrespective of gender. As a concept, frailty can be used by the geriatrician in a clinical environment in determining the patients’ condition as partly reversible or irreversible (Mora et al.

, 2018). Irreversible frailty occurs in patients who have lost their skeletal muscles in the body; they become weak, unable to walk and sometimes difficult to eat thus prone to death. Reversible conditions refer to the ability to regain body function regarding movement, and in doing daily activities, the condition is treatable.
In conclusion, frailty among the adults is a tenuous condition of health which results from the complex interaction of psychosocial, physiological, and environmental stresses that increases, the adults’ degree of proneness to hostile health outcomes (Cesari et al., 2016).
Reference
Boers, M., & Jentoft, A. J. C. (2015). A new concept of health can improve the definition of frailty. Calcified tissue international, 97(5), 429-431.
Cesari, M., Landi, F., Vellas, B., Bernabei, R., & Marzetti, E. (2016). Sarcopenia and physical frailty: two sides of the same coin. Pathophysiological Mechanisms of Sarcopenia in Aging and in Muscular Dystrophy: A Translational Approach.
Kinchin, I. M., & Winstone, N. E. (Eds.). (2017). Pedagogic frailty and resilience in the university. Springer.
Mora, M. Á. C., & Mañas, L. R. (2018). The Concept of Frailty and Functional Decline. In Learning Geriatric Medicine (pp. 27-39). Springer, Cham.
Wilson, D., Jackson, T., Sapey, E., & Lord, J. M. (2017). Frailty and sarcopenia: the potential role of an aged immune system. Ageing research reviews, 36, 1-10.
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