Frailty is recognized as a cornerstone of geriatric medicine! This syndrome impacts more than 60% of the elderly population, causing reduction on the elderly´s quality of life and increasing costs in national healthcare systems. If detected at an early stage, Frailty can be treated with personalized physical activity and adequate nutrition.
Gripwise´s solution integrates a portable system with a workflow for the assessment of Frailty, even by less-skilled professionals and in a simple and fast way.
If some level of Frailty is identified, it's possible to immediately begin the mitigation treatment supported by a pool of health professionals, through the implementation of tailored activities in nutrition and physical activity.
With Gripwise, it's possible to measure the positive outcomes of the health of the patients, allowing that the benefit in the reduction of the costs for the health system to be shared with the different stakeholders involved in it.
Frailty assessment and screning with Gripwise system
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Simple and fast frailty assessment
Gripwise frailty system assessment
A solution that combines a smart load cell and a software platform, that can assess frailty in a simple, fast and quantified way.
With gripwise, it’s possible to make this important assessment by less skilled professionals with simple training and near the elderly population, simplifying the process.
For example, we see this solution being easily applied in pharmacies, gyms, elderly care homes or caregivers.
With this, we want to give people the tools to understand their condition and change their behaviour in order to mitigate the evolution of frailty, keeping quality of life and reducing costs.
In the end, using our cloud platform, health professionals in the primary care can monitor the evolution of a large group of persons, acting at the first signs of frailty.