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Frailty affects approximately one in two patients over 70 years of age in the emergency department. These are inadequately identified as high-risk patients using conventional triage tools. Frailty screening improves the identification of high-risk patients with increased hospitalisation and readmission rates, 30-day and one-year mortality. ⋯ Inpatient admission is partly avoidable, even if this is associated with health risks. This should be discussed with the patient within the framework of participatory decision-making. In advanced frailty, the needs correspond to those of palliative patients.