Tebbit was concerned about "vultures" with an eye on the financial incentives to end the lives of frail, ill and elderly people.
Some of the challenges identified in the survey included that the patients may be too frail, ill, or cognitively impaired to complete outcome measures, and have low literacy or educational levels and therefore need the support of staff to complete them.
A frail, ill-looking Zawahiri stabbed the air repeatedly as he delivered his barbaric message to new audiences that are now operationally accessible for al-Qaida in Egypt, Yemen, Libya, Syria, Pakistan and Somalia.
Charges against the remaining 11 suspects were dropped because they were considered too frail or ill.
Rabbis have traditionally allowed exceptions for those who are frail or ill, encouraging people to eat rather than gamble with their health.
Re "Medicare Spending for Home Care at Home Plunges by 45%" (front page, April 21): This country cannot legislate or regulate the home care assistance needed by frail and ill people, and yet that is what Medicare continues to do.
Now in his mid-80s, frail and ill, Ayatollah Montazeri has remained in his home in Qum, the center of religious learning in Iran, issuing one politically charged religious edict after another, helping keep alive a faltering opposition movement.
But older people who receive heart valves, veins or other soft tissue could be getting sick from implants, he said, with their doctors failing to make the connection because the patients tend to be frail and ill.
What a strange little girl to think that she mattered, when Alice's mother was frail and ill, and the boys were bleeding her of every penny, and she still thought them ideal in their greed and insincerity.
Frail and ill, Mr. Sithole had gone to the United States in September for treatment of an enlarged prostate and arthritis, even as he and his family continued to do battle with the government of President Robert Mugabe.
Adult children are often expected to care for aging parents who become frail or ill, but a new survey has found that many may not be completely prepared for the task.
