In the management of older patients, frailty has emerged as one of the most relevant
clinical syndromes that will exponentially increase with population ageing. The United
Nations project that between 2015 and 2030, the number of people in the world older
than 60 years will grow by 56%, from 901 million to 1.4 billion, with the fastest
increases among those older than 80 years.
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This has major implications for clinical management and health care delivery, and
also contributes to increased health care spending in the United States, United Kingdom,
and globally.
United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division. World population prospects: The 2015 revision, DVD edition. Available at: https://esa.un.org/unpd/wpp/. Published 2015. Accessed November 26, 2016.
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