Giselle Falconi, MD @GFalconi
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Giselle is passionate about health care disparities, interprofessional education and culturally competent care. She is originally from Peru and is interested in pursuing a fellowship in Geriatric Medicine after residency. https://twitter.com/gfalconi_md
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How to Measure Frailty in Your Patients - Clinical Frailty Scale

#Frailty #Measurement #Diagnosis #Geriatrics #Scale
How to Measure Frailty ... Patients - Clinical Frailty ... Scale #Frailty ... Diagnosis #Geriatrics #Scale
A Model for Defining Frailty

Resiliency, Adaptive Capacity in Fit, Prefrail and Frail Patients

#Diagnosis #Geriatrics #Frailty #Model
Model for Defining Frailty ... , Prefrail and Frail ... Diagnosis #Geriatrics #Frailty
Rockwood Clinical Frailty Score

There is no single generally accepted clinical definition of frailty. Previously developed tools
Rockwood Clinical Frailty ... definition of frailty ... tools to assess frailty ... . 5 Mildly Frail ... #Scale #Score #
To be eligible for hospice beneficiaries with Alzheimer’s disease must have a FAST Scale of greater
be eligible for hospice ... must have a FAST Scale ... equal to 7 FAST Scale ... eligibility for hospice ... Staging #Test #Hospice
Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) 10-Item Shortened Form #Diagnosis #Geriatrics #Geriatric #Depression #Scale #GDS #Shortened #Short
Geriatric Depression Scale ... Geriatric #Depression #Scale
Anticholinergic Cognitive Burden Scale (ACB Scale)
 
Categorical Scoring:
 •	 Possible anticholinergics include those listed with ascore
Cognitive Burden Scale ... (ACB Scale) ... #ACB #Scale #Anticholinergic
5 Dementia hospice eligibility • Stage 7 or beyond according to the FAST scale • Unable
5 Dementia hospice ... according to the FAST scale ... evaluation of hospice ... Palliative #Dementia #Hospice ... FunctionalAssessmentStagingTest #Scale
STOPPFrail screening tool for deprescribing medications in frail older adults with poor survival prognosis. 

#STOPPFrail #Deprescribing
medications in frail
The Cumulative Deficit Frailty Model

#Diagnosis #Geriatrics #Frailty #Model #Cumulative #Deficit
Cumulative Deficit Frailty ... Diagnosis #Geriatrics #Frailty
Cycle of frailty

The impact of reduced activity can be huge as this Frailty Cycle suggests. So
Cycle of frailty ... be huge as this Frailty ... Keep Moving #frailty