I ran across a fantastic article today (this was written almost a month ago, sorry) in the Canadian Medical Association Journal. Drs. Rockwood, Song, and Mitnitski, from Dalhousie University in Halifax, analyzed some long term data that obtains in the Canadian National Population Health Survey. The title of the article says it all: Changes in the relative fitness and frailty across the adult lifespan. They employed the data from seven 2 year cycles (starting in 1994-5, ending in 2008-9) of that study. The key performance indicators they examined were death, use of health services, and changes in health status. What made the report intriguing (to me, of course) was that the authors developed what they called the “frailty index”.
Continue reading Finally some useful (and interesting) information about aging and health!
