Frailty: Implications and Risk Assessment for Underwriting
By the year 2060, almost 24% of the US population will be age 65 or older. Biomedical and public health advances have led to great increases in longevity and a shift in disease burden to multiple chronic diseases with aging. In On the Risk, RGA's experts discuss frailty as an underwriting challenge. Explore the definition and prevalence rates of frailty and one of the most widely used frailty scales in geriatric research.