Frailty check
Five questions on tiredness, strength, walking, illnesses and weight. Higher scores went with disability and death.
How to do it
- Answer the three questions about how you've felt and moved in the past few weeks.
- Tick each illness a doctor has told you that you have.
- Enter your weight now and about a year ago.
Your result
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What the research found
This is the FRAIL scale, made by doctors who care for older people at Saint Louis University. In a group of African Americans aged 49 to 65, people who scored 1 or 2 (on the way to frailty) or 3 or more (frail) were more likely to have trouble with daily tasks 9 years later, and more likely to have died. That held after taking into account how they were doing at the start.
Studied in: 998 African Americans aged 49 to 65 in St. Louis, followed for 9 years.
- Morley JE, Malmstrom TK, Miller DK. A simple frailty questionnaire (FRAIL) predicts outcomes in middle aged African Americans. J Nutr Health Aging. 2012;16(7):601-8. PubMed