With the accelerated aging of the population, the prevalence of chronic kidney disease (CKD) is on the rise. Cognitive frailty (CF) is an important indicator of quality of life and quality of living in the elderly population, and has become a research hotspot in the nursing community at home and abroad. The prevalence of cognitive frailty in elderly CKD patients is significantly higher than that in the general population, and there is an urgent need to enhance the early identification and intervention of their cognitive frailty to reduce the occurrence of adverse health outcomes. The article describes the origin and development of the concept of cognitive frailty, assessment methods, epidemiology of cognitive frailty in elderly CKD patients, influencing factors, and recommended interventions, with a view to providing lessons for the standardized cognitive frailty assessment of elderly CKD patients and the development of long-term care plans.

Ding Changqun, Xu Jilin, Zhu Huolan, Wang Dan, Yu Xingfeng, Yu Jianjiao, Zhang Yulian. Research Progress on Cognitive Frailty and Its Influencing Factors in the Elderly with Chronic Kidney Disease. International Journal of Frontiers in Medicine (2024), Vol. 6, Issue 10: 26-31. https://doi.org/10.25236/IJFM.2024.061004.

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