Concurrent Validity of Pictorial Fit-Frail Scale (PFFS) in Older Adult Male Veterans with Different Levels of Health Literacy.

Frailty is a state of vulnerability characterized by multisystemic physiological decline. The Pictorial Fit Frail Scale (PFFS) is a practical, image-based assessment that may facilitate the assessment of frailty in individuals with inadequate health literacy (HL). Determine the concurrent validity and feasibility of the PFFS in older Veterans with different levels of HL and cognition.

Incidence of Frailty in Community-Dwelling United States Older Veterans.

Objectives: Determine the incidence rates of frailty among community-dwelling older veterans.

Design: Population-based retrospective cohort study.

Setting And Participants: Veterans Health Administration Medical Center study included community-dwelling veterans 60 years and older with determinations of frailty from 2013 to 2014 and followed until September 2019.