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Identifying Frailty and Aligning Health Goals Based on Frailty Risk


Katherine Ritchey, DO, MPH

Geriatrics and Palliative Care, VA Puget Sound

Division of Geriatrics, University of Washington



Learning Objectives

By the end of this lecture, you should be able to:

  • Define frailty and conceptualize frailty as a syndrome and not part of normal aging
  • Discuss ways to assess frailty, mobility and falling risk and identify people who may benefit from evidence-based interventions
  • Utilize an Age-Friendly framework for assessing patient preferences and health outcome goals related to fall prevention interventions
  • Determine which evidence-based fall prevention interventions to start, stop or continue based on patients’ health priorities as the focus of communication and decision making

[From the Winter 2026 Geriatric Healthcare Lecture Series]