The phrase "ailing individuals" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to people who are suffering from illness or poor health.
Example: "The charity focuses on providing support and resources for ailing individuals in the community."
Alternatives: "sick individuals" or "unwell persons".
But many ailing individuals don't have relatives with the same illness.
Millions of ailing individuals seek medical help from alternative sources, often without the knowledge of their conventional doctors.
The two scenarios certainly are compatible and in my opinion both most likely contribute to the frailty of aging and ailing individuals.
Perhaps the most eager participant was Jake Tapper, of CNN, who criticized Shkreli's "smirky smugness" and added some startlingly violent commentary: "I'm sure there are many ailing individuals out there who might like to remove Shkreli's smile with the business end of a shovel".
"Today the word 'Ebola' carries so much stigma that few ailing individuals even seek diagnosis," wrote Laurie Garrett, senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations.
Furthermore, the population structure of the microbiome across host individuals may also be important: if host individuals live in close-knit groups that share the same microbiome, then a temporary increase in transmissibility from old or ailing individuals may bring little benefit for a symbiont that is already present in the other members of the group.
But in identifying her so early on as an ailing individual reliving the action, her value as a witness to ghostly events and the possibility of the sexual abuse of children is fatally compromised from the start.
But I would add that buildings can also dramatically improve people's lives, reduce the risk of poor health and increase the chances of an already ailing individual leading a longer and healthier life.
As we shall see, the mind and the body of an ailing individual who presented him- or herself at the French-disease hospital was not a blank tablet on which the institution's medical practitioners simply stamped their conceptions of disease causation and localization.
Examining medical records would have told him what ailed individual presidents, but would not have enabled him to compare their life spans to the average.
Barring the invention of a time machine that will allow him to visit ancient hominids and interview them about their medical practices, the best way to figure out whether the drugs were ingested intentionally would be to detect them in other ailing Neanderthal individuals.
