Fig. 2

Risk of all-cause 5-year mortality and quality of life of frail patients compared with non-frail. a Mortality. b Fair or poor QOL. Non-frail patients were divided in four groups: patients with only > 1 geriatric syndrome (light grey); patients with only > 3 comorbidities (medium grey); patients with geriatric syndromes and comorbidity (dark grey), and those without frailty, comorbidity, and geriatric syndromes (out of the Venn’s Diagram). The risk of all-cause 5-year mortality was calculated with Veterans Aging Cohort Study Index (VACS Index) and expressed as percentage of probability. The median VACS Index score was expressed as absolute number (p25-p75). QOL is expressed by the number of OAWH reporting fair or poor QOL and the proportion it represents in each group