A combination of physical frailty and depression is associated with a substantially increased risk for subsequent dementia, exceeding the risk linked to either condition alone. In a cohort study of ...

Frailty is a syndrome resulting from age-related decline across multiple organ systems. A new study, conducted at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, shows that slower reaction time and lower ...

Concurrent physical frailty and depression likely boost the risk of dementia in older people, with the interaction of these 2 factors alone contributing around 17% of the overall risk, suggest the ...

Frailty can creep up quietly. One year a person is carrying groceries without thinking about it; a few years later, a stumble ...

In pre-frail and frail adults experiencing homelessness, a primary care intervention combining exercise and nutrition supplementation showed feasibility, with over 85% enrolling and nearly 70% ...

Identifying adults at high risk of frailty and implementing appropriate interventions are critical for extending healthy life expectancy. To examine whether abdominal obesity predicts frailty ...

Researchers have found in a new study that among frail older adults with Non-ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction, an invasive ...

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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 ...