Physical frailty is strongly associated with an increased dementia risk in older adults, and according to researchers, the link may be causal. In an analysis of nearly half a million UK Biobank ...

In this review, we first provide a brief overview of frailty, including biologic mechanisms, measurement, and clinical management. This overview is followed by a discussion of approaches to ...

If we live long enough, many of us will eventually start to exhibit telltale signs of frailty, from unsteady feet to mental confusion. Yet not all. Think of Julia Hawkins, who set world records in the ...

Nearly half of older adults are at risk. By Dana G. Smith In the 1980s and ’90s, doctors diagnosed frailty largely based on their intuition. “We used to say, ‘You know it when you see it,’” said Dr.

SAN FRANCISCO — Frailty is hard to define and hard to distinguish from the effects of illness, injury, and medical interventions, but the frailty of patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) can have ...

The federal government and state Medicaid agencies must adopt comprehensive, flexible definitions of medical frailty that meaningfully protect the categories of individuals whom Congress has ...