Article Text
PDFBrief report
Respecting frailty
Abstract
While the medical treatment of older individuals often results in desirable outcomes, indiscriminate use of aggressive treatment at the end-of-life can cause paradoxical harm and suffering. Comprehensive assessment and communication can help foster decisions that consider the effect of frailty on health outcomes.
- Truth disclosure
- aged
- quality of health care
- attitudes toward death
Statistics from Altmetric.com
Read the full text or download the PDF:
Other content recommended for you
- Role of comprehensive geriatric assessment in healthcare of older people in UK care homes: realist review
- A key role for comprehensive geriatric assessment in aortic valve replacement
- Comprehensive geriatric assessment for older adults admitted to hospital: meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials
- End-of-life care for frail older people
- Neoadjuvant immunotherapy for non-small cell lung cancer: right drugs, right patient, right time?
- How can we improve Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment for older people living with frailty in primary care and community settings? A qualitative study
- Using comprehensive geriatric assessment for quality improvements in healthcare of older people in UK care homes: protocol for realist review within Proactive Healthcare of Older People in Care Homes (PEACH) study
- Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment for younger outpatients with severe mental illness: protocol for a feasibility study
- Maturation and abundance of tertiary lymphoid structures are associated with the efficacy of neoadjuvant chemoimmunotherapy in resectable non-small cell lung cancer
- Chemotherapy in elderly patients with resected stage II-IIIA lung cancer