Colleagues who have visited him "found him to be frail and frightened".
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"Someone may be frail and off their legs but may not need heavy duty hospital care.
Frail elders, people tell her, are thin (although overweight people can also be frail), weak, slow, fragile-looking.
His health is believed to be frail, and his party, ZANU-PF, is deeply divided over who will succeed him.
He has been in virtual seclusion for the past two years and is said by close associates to be frail.
But he has skipped recent public appearances, including his 80th birthday celebration, and appeared to be frail and walking with difficulty in video images released in October.
The patients will be frail Orthodox Jews trying to make it, with a little boost, through a day of religiously required fasting.
That meaning that defines a person singly by one aspect, an aspect that is often said to be frail and tragic.
Developed in collaboration with GP practices, the Prescription for Art offshoot connects with residents who may be frail, lonely or busy caring for loved ones, but do not attend regular pensioners' or community groups.
He told police that he had searched for but failed to find Mrs Threlkeld's neighbour Margaret Porter, 85, who his mother knew to be frail and unable to climb stairs.
