Frailty progression was associated with fewer days alive at home (DAH), regardless of age or frailty level at baseline, a new study shows. Compared with people with frailty regression, people with ...

A layperson might think of “frail” as simply a synonym for “weak” or “fragile.” But in the medical field, frailty is a specific term, meaning – due to factors including inflammation and hormone shifts ...

Individuals who meet at least one of the criteria for physical frailty are at higher risk of also developing depression, a new Yale study finds. The findings — which also include insights into the ...

Frailty is common among older patients undergoing PCI in the United States, and the more severe it is, the greater the likelihood of complications and of dying in the hospital, data from the CathPCI ...

Frailty risk in stroke survivors may be much higher than earlier reports suggest, according to new research using data from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS), the country’s ...

A study published in a recent issue of the Journal of the American College of Surgeons finds that scoring patients for frailty can accurately predict adverse surgical outcomes. Researchers scored ...

Demographics, tumor characteristics, and survival in inflammatory breast cancer. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2015 ASCO Annual Meeting I. This abstract does not include a full text ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. A so-called ‘anti-frailty’ drug has shown promise in a small study, ...

There are “clear failings” in how GPs assess and support older people living with frailty, with unexplained variation in practice across England, according to the National Audit Office (NAO). The ...