Cognitive Frailty and Adverse Health Outcomes: Findings From the Singapore Longitudinal Ageing Studies (SLAS).

Abstract

There is a recent consensus proposal of "cognitive frailty" defined by the presence of both physical frailty and cognitive impairment in the absence of dementia. The relevance, validity, and utilization of cognitive frailty, however, is presently unclear. We determine whether concurrent physical frailty and cognitive impairment, compared with physical frailty alone substantially increased adverse health outcomes (functional disability, hospitalization, poor quality of life [QOL], and mortality).