In Hong Kong at Hospital Authority conf, speaking on frailty & illness acuity. As with work from @CamGeris the frailer someone is, the more lethal is illness acuity. And the longer the recovery time. It’s almost as if frailty degree estimates resilience. Or intrinsic capacity.
Of course there’s more to it than that. Social vulnerability (in relation to education, occupation, safe environment, supportive community) and personal health practices (exercise, not smoking, etc.) explain variability in the relationship between FI and mortality.
And more yet. Where do biomarkers come in? (As predictors, likely as a package.) And as @dr_shibley warns, how do we put all this together in ways that do not stigmatize, but still allow the complexity of #frailty to be taken seriously? (vs common sense? or harmful stereotype?)
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