Frailty Phenotype and Mortality: A Prospective Cohort Study

Frailty has been associated with increased risks of various health conditions, disability, and death, which is a particular challenge to both health care providers and affected older persons.1 As an important predictor of disability, institutionalization, and death, old age frailty will become a public health issue of remarkable proportions during the coming decades.2,3 Frailty represents an increased vulnerability to adverse health outcomes compared with others of the same age.4 Chronological age could enable approaches to prevent premature death and extend healthy active life expectancy.