Multimorbidity and Its Impact in Older United States Veterans Newly Treated for Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer.

Rationale: Older adults make up the majority of patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and often carry multiple other comorbidities (multimorbidity) when initiating treatment. The nature and impact of multimorbidity remain largely unknown, given the limitations of standard count-based comorbidity indices in aging patients and their exclusion from clinical trials.

Objective: Our objective is to identify and define multimorbidity patterns in older U.

Frailty integration in medical specialties: Current evidence and suggested strategies from the Clin-STAR frailty interest group.

Frailty is a syndrome that can inform clinical treatments and interventions for older adults. Although implementation of frailty across medical subspecialties has the potential to improve care for the aging population, its uptake has been heterogenous. While frailty assessment is highly integrated into certain medical subspecialties, other subspecialties have only recently begun to consider frailty in the context of patient care.