Frailty - Professor Antony Johansen

Professor Antony Johansen discusses the concept of frailty. The sources discussed are;

Fried LP, Tangen CM, Walston J, Newman AB, Hirsch C, Gottdiener J, Seeman T, Tracy R, Kop WJ, Burke G, McBurnie MA; Cardiovascular Health Study Collaborative Research Group. Frailty in older adults: evidence for a phenotype. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2001 Mar;56(3):M146-56. doi: 10.1093/gerona/56.3.m146. PMID: 11253156.

Rockwood K, Song X, MacKnight C, Bergman H, Hogan DB, McDowell I, Mitnitski A. A global clinical measure of fitness and frailty in elderly people. CMAJ. 2005 Aug 30;173(5):489-95. doi: 10.1503/cmaj.050051. PMID: 16129869; PMCID: PMC1188185.

other resources that listeners might be interested in:

- 'The rest isn't orthopaedics' - a collection of podcasts around managing frailty in patients who have had a hip fracture. https://open.spotify.com/show/5Rmm4gwDN18sndb5MYWW1c?si=d5a3b51fb7dc4b90

- a series of video lectures on the management of frailty and orthogeriatrics http://www.youtube.com/@antonyjohansen