A year-long study of 314 older stroke survivors in China identified three frailty trajectories after hospital discharge, with ...

Older adults who rarely participated in social activities, perceived themselves as not being useful to family or friends, and reported frequent boredom were more likely to be frail compared to robust ...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD, has quietly become one of the deadliest conditions on the planet, now ranking ...

Changes in frailty and everyday physical function may emerge more than a decade before a cardiovascular event, opening a ...

In the inaugural issue of the journal Nature Aging a research team led by aging expert Linda P. Fried, MD, MPH, dean of Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, synthesizes converging ...

Can pre-frailty and frailty predict the risk for cardiovascular events like myocardial infarction or stroke? According to new study findings, frailty in older adults is a dynamic state that often ...

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

Aging experts synthesize converging evidence that the aging-related pathophysiology underpinning the clinical presentation of phenotypic frailty is a state of lower functioning due to severe ...