Original Article

Measures of Frailty in Homebound Older Adults

Objectives: Frailty, a geriatric syndrome associated with high morbidity and mortality, has rarely been assessed in homebound older adults. As such, we evaluated the prevalence of frailty among older adults enrolled in a home-based primary care program. b We measured frailty using the Fried Frailty Phenotype criteria of unintentional weight…