Frailty confers loss of independence, vulnerability and impairs the quality of life and psychological well-being of many older people; it also poses an enormous challenge on families, carers and other structures of social care and social support.
As an index focussed on vulnerability to loss of landscape diversity, vulnerability is highest when a single land use type is present and lowest where there is an even mix of multiple land use types.
Dunow mourns the loss of innocence and vulnerability as the sweet, little, kittenish boys harden.
We think this should include all the states that have already been rescued, or are requesting bail-outs, because those countries share with Greece a fundamental loss of competitiveness and vulnerability to foreign capital flight.
Aging intrinsically and extrinsically impacts the skin, leading to atrophy, progressive loss of function, increased vulnerability to the environment, and decreased homeostatic capability.
In "Butterflies," which is at Dance Theater Workshop from Wednesday through April 24, Ms. Uchizono -- who was a serious surfer for seven years, even running her own surf shop in Orange County -- explores the themes of loss and vulnerability.
The EF combines three parts based on global maps: (1) potential species loss, (2) vulnerability of present species communities, and (3) habitat loss risk (graphical summary in SI, S9).
As those men (it is primarily men) experience illness, disability and bereavement, the sense of vulnerability and loss of control that arose in combat can re-emerge.
At the nearby Stars and Stripes Cafe, Dave Branham and Mack McLaurin, civilian employees of the base on their lunch break, said a sense of vulnerability and loss was pervasive.
And "The Slave" by Roddy Doyle is a masterly monologue that uses the author's pitch-perfect ear for how people talk to limn a man's sudden apprehension of vulnerability and loss -- all brought on by his discovery of a dead rat on his kitchen floor.
