Frail elderly definition
Frail elderly means an individual who meets functional eligibility requirements, as established by the state department, for nursing home care and who is fifty-five years of age or older.
Frail elderly means a person at least 62 years of age who requires assistance in performing at least two activities of daily living or instrumental activities of daily living (that is, eating, dressing, grooming and household management activities). Only projects which qualify as “housing for older persons” under the Fair Housing Act may reserve units for rental exclusively to the frail elderly.
Frail elderly means individuals who qualify for either:
Examples of Frail elderly in a sentence
Frail elderly patients are characterised as having complex health and social care needs, being at risk of hospital or residential care home admission, and requiring a range of high level interventions due to their frailty and multiple chronic conditions.
Description of actor characteristics Frail elderly and those with long-term conditions living in their own home or in a homecare setting.
More Definitions of Frail elderly
Frail elderly means individuals who are:
Frail elderly means people who are age 65 or older as defined in Chapter 46 or Chapter 55 Stats.
Frail elderly means a person having those chronic physical
Frail elderly means a person having those chronic physical or mental limitations that restrict individual ability to carry out normal activities of daily living and that threaten an individual's capacity to live an independent life.
Frail elderly for the purposes of this act means any person sixty years of age or older, with limitations which restrict the person's ability to perform the normal activities of daily living.