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Understanding Frailty Screening: a Domain Mapping Exercise.

Jill K Van Damme¹, Kassandra Lemmon¹, Mark Oremus¹

¹School of Public Health and Health Systems, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON N2L 3G1.

Canadian Geriatrics Journal : CGJ

|June 3, 2021

Summary

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Frailty screening tools often overlook psychosocial factors like social isolation and mental health. This review found significant variation in assessed domains, highlighting the need for comprehensive tools to improve frailty assessment.

Keywords:

domain mapping frailty psychosocial screening tools

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Gerontology
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Psychosocial Medicine

Background:

Frailty definitions commonly exclude psychosocial factors despite their known links to health outcomes.
Social isolation and mental health are critical but often unaddressed components in frailty assessment.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the health domains encompassed by existing frailty screening tools.
To identify gaps in frailty assessment concerning psychosocial factors.

Main Methods:

Systematic literature search adhering to PRISMA guidelines across multiple databases (MEDLINE, CINAHL, EMBASE, PsycInfo).
Extraction and mapping of domains from 67 frailty screening tools onto a biopsychosocial framework.

Main Results:

All assessed tools included biological factors; 73% included psychological, 52% social, and 78% contextual factors.
Only 43% of tools evaluated all four domains (biological, psychological, social, contextual).

Conclusions:

Significant heterogeneity exists in the domains covered by current frailty screening tools.
Comprehensive frailty assessment requires tools that evaluate a wider range of domains, including psychosocial aspects.