Frailty in nursing home residents: a scoping review protocol

Thanuja De Silva; Sally Ahip; Olga Theou; Catalin Tufanaru; Renuka Visvanathan; Kandiah Umapathysivam

doi:10.11124/JBISRIR-2016-003115

Frailty in nursing home residents: a scoping review protocol

JBI Database System Rev Implement Rep. 2017 Aug;15(8):2040-2046. doi: 10.11124/JBISRIR-2016-003115.

Authors

Thanuja De Silva¹, Sally Ahip, Olga Theou, Catalin Tufanaru, Renuka Visvanathan, Kandiah Umapathysivam

Affiliation

¹ 1Aged and Extended Care Services, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Central Adelaide Local Health Network, Australia 2Geriatric Medicine, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada 3The Joanna Briggs Institute, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia 4Adelaide Geriatrics Training and Research with Aged Care Centre, School of Medicine, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia.

PMID: 28800053
DOI: 10.11124/JBISRIR-2016-003115

Abstract

The overall research objective of this scoping review is to determine the current evidence on frailty in nursing homes.The objectives of the scoping review are to map the following, as reported in international literature:The questions for the scoping review are.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Frailty / psychology*
Geriatrics*
Humans
Nursing Homes*