BMC Primary Care has published this Collection on Frailty in primary care. In support of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3: Good Health and Wellbeing and SDG 10: Reduced Inequalities, BMC Primary Care welcomed original submissions for our collection Frailty in primary care.
Frailty is an age-related medical condition of reduced function and physiological reserve, that is of increased relevance in modern primary care due to the increased pace of population aging. For example, the World Health Organization (WHO) report that the proportion of the world’s population over 60 years will double by 2050. Furthermore, in 2050, 80% of older people will live in low or middle-income countries. This means the effective management of age-related conditions such as frailty is ever increasing global importance.
The provision of primary care to patients with frailty presents many challenges that must be overcome, including making health care services more accessible to frail patients; ensuring that primary care providers demonstrate best practice in the diagnosis, screening, and case management of frailty; and supporting frail patients to follow medical advice and actively participate in interventions.
Despite previous reports documenting efforts to define frailty, establish effective management approaches, and develop appropriate interventions; there is still a lack of understanding on how evidence-based strategies can best be implemented in the primary care setting. As such, we welcome submissions from a broad range of research covering all aspects of frailty management in primary care.
The scope included but was not limited to primary care research that considered frailty in the following topics:
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