No longer will frail and fragile film directors have to push their face against a cold camera on a chilly winter's morning.
Another significant factor is that people are living longer, into frail, accident-prone old age.
He said: "No longer should frail or vulnerable people be shunted around the system, from ambulance to A & E to noisy ward.
No longer would frail and indigent patients have to run the gantlet of separate city welfare offices, dragging themselves to one place for public assistance, to another for Medicaid, and so on.
He is no longer the frail old man dying by inches before the public eye, but as the huge photographs hanging above the left-field scoreboard attested, he remains the young and brash slugger who proclaimed he wanted people to say of him, "There goes the greatest hitter who ever lived".
Even family caregivers -- a bedrock of care for elders -- are increasingly strained to offer care as their loved ones live longer, grow frail and become sicker, a reality that's detailed in a new study from the National Alliance for Caregiving and AARP.
By then, after his career troubles and what Howlett called "the ravages of the Ava Gardner affair," Sinatra no longer looked like a frail, vulnerable young boy.
I remembered the longer than usual yet frail hug, and I remembered the last squeeze of the hand as we both looked each other in the eyes, both holding back tears.
Short time periods were selected because the population was potentially frail and longer time frames might be affected by changes in circumstances (i.e. admission to long-term care, death).
The antinuclear protests that used to go on for hours now lasted just 20 minutes, with the frail islanders no longer able to walk the cobbled paths for long.
