Definition: Frailty is defined as the inability to withstand (সহ্য করা) minor stresses because of reduced functional reserve in several organ systems. Thus, in frailty even a trivial illness may result in organ failure and death.

Two approaches to assessment of frailty:

Clinical Frailty Scale

1. Very Fit: 

• robust, active, energetic, motivated; exercise regularly. 

1. Well: 

• no active disease symptoms but are less fit than category 1. 
• Often, they exercise or are very active occasionally, e.g. seasonally. 

• Managing Well: 

• medical problems are well controlled, 
• routine walking. 

• Vulnerable: 

• Mildly Frail 

• Moderately Frail

• Severely Frail 

• Very Severely Frail 

SAQ. Relationship of dementia with frailty

Scoring frailty in people with dementia 

• The degree of frailty corresponds to the degree of dementia.

• Mild dementia: 

• forgetting the details of a recent event, though still remembering the event itself, 
• repeating the same question/story and social withdrawal. 

• Moderate dementia:

• recent memory is very impaired, can remember their past life events well
• can do personal care with prompting. 

• Severe dementia:

• cannot do personal care without help.