Evaluating frailty in Medicaid Home and Community-based Services clients: a feasibility and comparison study between the SHARE-FI and SPPB.

Frailty assessment is feasible within HCBS settings conducted by a non-medical provider. Using continuous frailty scores provides stronger agreement between measures compared with categorical scores. Frailty can be feasibly measured in a non-medical setting providing initial evidence for a mechanism for population screening and care for frailty in HCBS.