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- Title
Frailty of Homeless People: Partial Publication of the Faho Study.
- Authors
Speck, Carmen; Amberg, Ina; Deichmann, Ailina; Keil, Lena; Pauer, Maren; Kolbe, Christian; Schrader, Kathrin
- Abstract
In the article, the authors present their study on the prevalence of physical frailty among homeless older people to develop effective assessment, intervention, and prevention. The study was conducted at the social services charity Elisabeth-StraBenambulanz in Frankfurt, Germany. Among the data collected are the use of walking aids, prevalence of pain, and sociodemographic variables.
- Subjects
ASTHENIA; FRAILTY; HOMELESS persons; MUSCLE weakness; MUSCLE mass; OLDER homeless persons; PAIN; WEIGHT loss; SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC factors; WALKING speed; FRAGILITY (Psychology)
- Publication
Deutsches Ärzteblatt International, 2023, Vol 120, Issue 40, p677
- ISSN
1866-0452
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3238/arztebl.m2023.0162