I’m sorry for that. The CFS began using judgment to integrate items in a Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment. Health deficits accumulate to impair high-order function: in mobility, daily activities, +/- cognition. That’s ≠ impairment from single-system disorders in young people.

Congratulations Ilaria. As you know, that award has an impressive pedigree. To which your name adds further lustre.

Congratulations on this. I know that it’s been a mountain of work. It’s an important topic for the field, and very nicely handled.

Well done. Delirium as a preventable cause of dementia deserves study. Much of it arises unrecognized from unnecessarily hazardous routine care of older patients who live with frailty. Polypharmacy, untreated pain, immobilization, and chronic indifference all take a costly toll.

Manifold benefits to participants and researchers from testing how intergenerational engagement can improve health.

Great leadership by Sam to mobilize a large squad and collect these data.

Nicely done!

Invasive Treatment in Frailty + NSTEMI jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman… '[...invasive Rx reduced survival [in the 1st yr, esp. those with the most severe frailty. ... this shifted to be] a late benefit. Given reduced life expectancy, the initial harm matters in patients with frailty.'

A key question to ask at the beginning of a hospital admission. It directs in hospital function ( mobility and everyday function/ ADLs) and sets the tone for improved discharge outcomes.

I’ve observed rural generalists to offer excellent acute elder care by knowing something about the patient/their family when well, recognizing without alarm/disdain that people can have more than one acute illness, and having the disposition and skill to treat their many needs.

It can be shocking just how little attention is paid to mobility in hospital. Both at the start: no comment on how the person moves now. Silence on what they were like at baseline. How can we help people “get better” (or home) if we don’t know what better looks like for them?

Thanks Avis Favaro I’m grateful for the opportunity to get the word out about how vital it is for us to better manage the care of older adults who live with frailty, especially when they become acutely Ill, if we are to improve publicly funded health care in Canada.

The front lawn on a proper winter day. This is more like it.

Decision-making can be enhanced by offering treatment trials, with actionable guidance on better/worse. What’s murky in the ED can become clear within 48-96 hours in the ICU. When facing undoubted uncertainty we should substitute dynamic decision-making for all-or-none decisions.

Thanks. It was a great presentation - well received, stimulating and inspiring. Thank you.

Prestigious Dhole-Eddlestone Memorial Prize awarded to scientific paper enabling early detection of age-related functional decline bgs.org.uk/policy-and-med… From the #CLSA Link to the paper is here: academic.oup.com/ageing/article…

How to construct a frailty index from an existing dataset in 10 steps. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38124255/ This is an update of what we’ve learned about constructing a frailty index since Sam Searle’s classic BMC Geriatrics 2008 “standard procedure” paper.

Congratulations on this exceptional achievement. It bodes well…

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