Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment Questions and Answers (Graded A)

Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment
Questions and Answers (Graded A)
Clinical Frailty Scale - ANSWER - -more frail you are less likely to survive CPR


Common presentations of older people to healthcare - ANSWER - Incontinence, functional
dependence, immobility, falls, confusion


Comprehensive geriatric assessment - ANSWER - includes medical, psychosocial, cognitive,
and functional components


-relatively new
-CGA is an interdisciplinary, multi-component process, focused on medical, psychological and
functional capabilities to develop an integrated plan for treatment and long term follow up


NNT: adults that undergo CGA - ANSWER - Every 17 older adults that undergo CGA, death or
significant deterioration in condition is prevented for one person


-CGA before surgery and cancer treatment-much better outcomes. CGA helps consider if other
treatment is better.


Components of CGA - ANSWER - -active medical problems
-nutrition, swallow, oral health
-medication review
-memory, mood, psychological health
-continence and skin
-advance care planning: resuscitation doesn't work in frail people, cancer patients (late term),
-social care
-vision and hearing
-mobility, function, falls and bone health