Signs of frailty can include: Frail individuals may also get sick more easily, take longer to get well or never fully regain their previous level of functioning. Frailty most often stems from a ...

Frailty is a syndrome marked by physiological decline, particularly fragility and vulnerability, as though the person might break if they move the wrong way. Frail individuals may also get sick ...

“Being frail” may not sound like that big of a deal—maybe you even assume it’s kind of inevitable as you get older. But frailty is actually a legitimate medical condition that can make it ...

Nearly a third of pre-frail patients later became robust, along with 16% of frail patients. Frailty among patients with systemic sclerosis significantly increases the risk for mortality by nearly ...

The highest grade of the CFS (level 7) as published in 2005, incorporated both severe frailty and terminal illness. Later, it became evident that we needed to distinguish between identifiable groups ...

Asked which age group they think is increasingly frail, and allowed to give multiple answers, most respondents picked people in their 60s or older. Frailty may be associated with old age ...