Sentence examples for frail to use from inspiring English sources

Ms. Vaccaro got the idea for the program when she realized that many of the 110 elderly people who received daily lunch deliveries from the center's Meals on Wheels program were too frail to use conventional cooking methods.

Once he is too frail to use the ladder, he intends to remain at the top until his death.

Our results are in line with those few studies from British Columbia: Economically frail patients seem to use the least expensive molecules within a cluster and bear a lower financial burden for their medications than patients of higher socioeconomic status.

His parents and grandmother ran a string of bars and bordellos that catered to transients who moved through the town, which was such an important stop on the black and white vaudeville circuits that it inspired the expression, "Will it play in Peoria?" A frail child, he learned how to use his quick wit and belligerent humor to gain respect from street gangs and bigger, more aggressive peers.

We previously developed a FR test easy to use in frail geriatric patients in order to evaluate muscle endurance [ 12].

8 Frail individuals are more likely to use more medicines, 9 and are at increased risk of adverse effects from medicines.

36 There are practical implications for provision of information and training arising from the comments from some of the frailer individuals who tried unsuccessfully to use their alarms, such as ensuring users can actually activate the devices and are aware of their signal range.

Patients were categorised as normal, pre-frail or frail using the SHARE-FI tool [ 24].

In another study, 36% of the hospitalized older patients were found to be frail using the Reported Edmonton Frail Score (REFS) [ 40].

In addition, other screening instruments that distinguish different domains, like the Tilburg Frailty Indicator and the Edmunton Frail Scale, also use total sum scores to identify frail older adults [ 11, 46].

My mother was 95, and very frail, and I used to see her every week, and I didn't see how I could continue to look after her [and run for office].