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Geriatric Medicine Research · Dalhousie University and Nova Scotia Health
Free online tools from Geriatric Medicine Research at Dalhousie University for measuring frailty and health in older adults.
Tools completed by a health professional about a patient.
Full version
Answer questions about your patient's daily activities, health conditions and general health to place them on the Clinical Frailty Scale, from 1 (very fit) to 9 (terminally ill).
Short version
A quicker version of the CFS classification tool that asks up to seven questions, using counts of activities and conditions, to place your patient on the Clinical Frailty Scale from 1 to 9.
Questionnaires people can complete about themselves.
Answer 62 questions about your everyday activities and health to calculate your frailty index, and see how it compares with people of your age and sex.
This site is a collection of instruments created by our group to measure health. Every tool runs entirely in your browser: answers are not sent anywhere and are kept only in this browser tab until you close it or choose New assessment.