Feasibility and acceptability of commonly used screening instruments to identify frailty among community-dwelling older people: a mixed methods study

Table 2 Participant characteristics

	Participants (N = 243)
Age at appointment (y): Median (IQR)	79.0 (6.0)
Gender
Male	108 (44.4)
Female	135 (55.6)
Lives alone	76 (31.5)
High school education or higher	103 (42.9)
Speaks language other than English at home	4 (1.7)
Attends rural practice	120 (49.4)
Takes 5+ medications	97 (39.9)
Frailty status (FP)
Robust	61 (25.6)
Pre-frail	136 (57.1)
Frail	41 (17.2)
Frailty status (FI)
Not frail	51 (21.3)
Pre-frail	69 (28.7)
Frail	120 (50.0)

Note. Abbreviations: FI Frailty Index, FP Frailty Phenotype, IQR Inter-Quartile Range. Missing data excluded from table: Age (n = 2); Living arrangements (n = 2), Education (n = 3), Language spoken (n = 1), Polypharmacy (n = 2), Frailty status (FP) (n = 5), Frailty status (FI) (n = 3)

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