A suspected stroke a few years ago has left her more frail, though, with the help of her nurse, she spends part of most days at the FCC listening to foreign news broadcasts on the BBC.
The very moderate response rate (55% for the physical examination) is likely to have selectively excluded subjects who were more frail and with a worse health profile (as observed in previous examinations).
Wave 2 women with no wave 3 mortality data were significantly older and more frail than those with mortality data (table 3).
Yet there are many more frail elderly patients with complex health needs being admitted to the service because we have too few district nurses, physiotherapists, falls nurses or memory-team staff, leaving these community services oversubscribed.
16 Controversy exists in the literature as to whether such interventions result in better outcomes for older, more frail adults compared with younger, less frail people.
Reduced fatigue would particularly benefit this older, more frail cancer group with bone morbidity as it would lead to increased activity and functionality, with attendant benefits on wellbeing and social functioning.
In addition, the number of older patients in this analysis was low and their mean age was 69 years, and based on their baseline creatinine clearance, they were relatively healthy and thus not representative of more frail elderly patients with T2DM.
Since ATIV is preferentially recommended for more frail individuals, subjects vaccinated with ATIV were older and had more functional impairment and comorbidities.
Evidence suggests that much of the excess mortality associated with osteoporosis is not actually a function of the fracture, 53, 56 but perhaps of the generally more frail condition of patients with osteoporosis.
