Instead, they say, the blood tests can give them clues to understanding the events that conspire to result in frailty.
Some people, Dr. Walston and others said, seem to be pushed into a cycle of increasing debilitation, ending in frailty, by a chronic illness like heart disease.
To be fair, there were also a few risky choices in this era, with Bill Paxton casting him as a grim baddie in Frailty; but McConaughey largely seemed to have accepted the cards his pretty face had dealt him.
Geriatricians should come out of the hospital setting to assess and intervene in the community, and GPs should be reaching into hospitals to seek training in frailty management and providing appropriate care.
In "Frailty," a metaphysical thriller with few special effects, that horror is the righteously homicidal agenda that a God-fearing father instills in his children when his relationship with God suddenly warps into a fearful psychosis.
Although weight loss is one of the five components of the frailty index, Dr. Fried acknowledges that being overweight or obese — likely to characterize a larger proportion of the elderly in the future — can also figure in frailty.
"There will be an increase in frailty and disability because people are living longer," said S. Jay Olshansky, a demographer at the University of Illinois at Chicago who studies aging.
This process - known as sarcopenia - can result in frailty and immobility in old people.
Therefore, future studies should seek to improve the method employed and follow-up of the evolution and consequences of overlaps in frailty and depression over time.
Older drivers are currently over-represented in severe injury crashes at intersections due in part to increases in frailty and functional disabilities that occur with age.
Several authors conclude that a first step in frailty assessment should be done routinely by the general practitioner (GP) [17] using tools integrated into their daily practice [18 21].
