Frailty and diabetes in older adults: Overview of current controversies and challenges in clinical practice

Front Clin Diabetes Healthc. 2022 Aug 19:3:895313. doi: 10.3389/fcdhc.2022.895313. eCollection 2022.

Mohd Zaquan Arif Abd Ghafar^{1

2}, Mark O'Donovan^{3

4}, Duygu Sezgin⁵, Elizabeth Moloney^{3

4}, Ángel Rodríguez-Laso⁶, Aaron Liew⁷, Rónán O'Caoimh^{3

4}

¹ Faculty of Medicine, Universiti Teknologi MARA (Sungai Buloh), Selangor, Malaysia.
² Geriatrics Unit, Selayang Hospital, Selangor, Malaysia.
³ Department of Geriatric Medicine, Mercy University Hospital, Cork, Ireland.
⁴ Health Research Board Clinical Research Facility, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.
⁵ School of Nursing and Midwifery, Aras Moyola, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland.
⁶ CIBERFES (Área temática de Fragilidad y Envejecimiento Saludable del Centros de Investigación Biomédica en Red), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain.
⁷ Department of Endocrinology, National University of Ireland Galway, Galway, Ireland.

No abstract available

Keywords: ageing; comprehensive geriatric assessment; diabetes mellitus; endocrinology; frailty; geriatrics; overview; pre-frailty.