A number of screening tools have been developed to accurately establish biologic age.One tool,the Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA),is a multidimensional evaluation that scrutinizes medications,functional ability,co-morbid conditions,cognitive ability,mental function,nutritional status,and socioenvironmental factors.In geriatric medical studies,the CGA has been valuable in providing a metric for describing healthy aging and:

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The CGA may be used both to identify at-risk individuals and to guide interventions.In geriatric medical studies the CGA has been found to be potentially beneficial in reducing the incidence of hospitalization,falls,delirium,and readmission.It is predictive of both morbidity and mortality in older patients.When evaluated as a screening tool in the geriatric community,it has been shown to detect new and unsuspected problems in 76% of elderly persons living at home.

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