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Groningen Frailty Indicator (GFI)

GFI: 15-item questionnaire covering physical, cognitive, social, and psychological domains. Can be self-administered.

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Mobility

1. Can you do shopping independently?

Mobility

2. Can you walk around outside independently?

Mobility

3. Can you dress and undress yourself independently?

Mobility

4. Can you go to the toilet independently?

Physical Fitness

5. What mark do you give your physical fitness (1-10)?

Vision

6. Do you experience problems in daily life due to poor vision?

Hearing

7. Do you experience problems in daily life due to poor hearing?

Nourishment

8. Have you lost a lot of weight unintentionally during the last 6 months?

Morbidity

9. Do you take 4 or more different types of medicine?

Cognition

10. Do you have complaints about your memory?

Psychosocial

11. Do you sometimes experience an emptiness around you?

Psychosocial

12. Do you sometimes miss people around you?

Psychosocial

13. Do you sometimes feel abandoned?

Psychosocial

14. Did you recently feel sad or dejected?

Psychosocial

15. Did you recently feel nervous or anxious?

Guidelines & Evidence

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Last Review: 2026

When to Use

When to Use

Identifying frailty in community-dwelling older adults.
Screening for multidimensional frailty in primary care or geriatric outpatient settings.
Self-administered or informant-assisted frailty screening.

Holistic Frailty Concept

The GFI measures the loss of resources in four domains: physical, cognitive, social, and psychological. It is particularly strong in capturing psychosocial elements of frailty (loneliness, anxiety) often missed by purely physical scales like the Fried Phenotype.

Related Scores in Practice

In clinical practice, this assessment is frequently evaluated alongside other validated measures. Depending on the patient's presentation and specific diagnostic requirements, you may also need to utilize the Edmonton Frail Scale (EFS), FRAIL Scale or the Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS) to formulate a comprehensive care plan.

Last Comprehensive Review: 2026

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