"But he's always had that pressure, so I don't think he's particularly frail.
It is important to avoid damaging the expansion system, which is particularly frail at the tip, in order to avoid the need to change the nail.
Women in the UK and Denmark may be staged less often than in other countries if they are particularly frail and could be considered liable to suffer from invasive staging investigations.
For those participants who are particularly frail, there will be the option to spread the assessments over more visits, to have a shorter assessment in total and for much of the interview to be conducted with an 'informant' i.e. a relative/carer who knows the participant well.
This bias would be particularly great if the frail (and thus most at risk of dying) were the ones most likely to be evacuated from flooded areas.
Our per protocol results suggests that geriatric screening may be particularly beneficial to a frailer group of ED elders.
The clinical and economical negative consequences of pneumonia may be particularly evident among the frailest groups of elders, in particular those living in nursing home.
Antibiotics are often prescribed for illnesses against which they are ineffective, the authors say, but even when they are properly used, the elderly and frail can be particularly susceptible to their side effects.
The UCPCR test has the advantages of being widely available, and stable at room temperature for 3 days, so offering the potential for widespread non‐invasive testing which may be particularly useful for a more frail, older population.
One potential advantage for the use of quetiapine relates to greater dose flexibility, which might be particularly helpful for very old and frail individuals.
