Losing muscle, as well as fat, is an unexpected downside of the popular drugs that isn’t broadly discussed or immediately ...

We used to say, ‘You know it when you see it,’” said Dr. Peter Abadir, an associate professor of geriatric medicine and ...

Being obese may lead to a lower likelihood of death among elderly people with deteriorated mental and physical conditions called frailty, a team of researchers has found. Those free from the ...

More than one in five Australians over 65 are living with frailty — but a new national framework developed by University of ...

Frailty — a clinical syndrome characterized by decreased physiological reserve and increased vulnerability to stressors — has traditionally been associated with geriatric medicine but has profound ...

A new framework to prevent and manage frailty in older Australians has been developed in a national project led by University ...

As our population ages and our medical care improves, we have increasing numbers of frail patients. The frail require gentler, longer, and frequently more expensive care. A new study looks at these ...

Frailty was tied to a higher risk of future dementia in older adults. Trajectories rose more rapidly 4 to 9 years before dementia onset. The analysis included 30,000 participants in the U.S. and U.K.

In the next 10 years, the number of Canadians living with frailty will grow to more than two million. Frailty matters because it not only affects seniors’ ability to function, but also puts their ...