Sentence examples for be of frail from inspiring English sources

Kennan was being pursued by Indians and admonished Madison to run, but Madison, who was already known to be of frail constitution, stood to reveal that he had been badly wounded and was bleeding profusely.

Caregiver in this study refers to a person who provides unpaid care to family members with disability, mental illness, or who are of frail or aged.

"It is appalling to think that, every week, there are thousands of frail and frightened people speeding through our towns and cities in the backs of ambulances to be left in a busy A&E".

The long-term care elderly population is particularly vulnerable to inappropriate medication use; it is composed of frail older patients who typically have functional disabilities and acute and chronic medical histories that require complex medication regimens [ 20, 21].

"He's kind of frail by N.B.A. standards," he said.

In the past year, the dominant image of the survivors in Israel has been that of frail citizens living out their final years in cold and hunger, battling the government bureaucracy for monthly stipends.

It is a scene whose tacit emotion uncoils in their later, fractured conversations over the telephone: Papinou is of course too frail to visit him in hospital.

The chance of being frail or pre-frail increased almost twofold (odds ratio: 1.91; 95% confidence interval: 1.02 3.57) in cases where the participant had four or five CVD risk factors.

The OR of being frail or pre-frail was estimated per one SD increase (higher score represents greater CVD risk) in the risk scores over the 10-year follow-up.

One of his early memories is of his father, Hugh, frail with illness, facing down a mob who had come to seize the estate.

Concern is widespread that the basis for this development is the survival of frail and disabled elderly people into very old age.