Sentence examples for often frail from inspiring English sources

Her health, often frail, deteriorated, though she roused herself to make one last reading tour in 1939.

He was indifferent to his often frail physical condition: the last chapters of Bleak House were written immediately after an operation, without anaesthetic, on a fistula.

While the number of nursing homes increased slightly, from 4,387 to 4,623 in that time, more than one in 10 residential homes – for elderly, often frail, people – have closed.

The shutdown highlighted the often frail nature of international communications: despite the vast number of individuals who have access to the web, nearly all internet traffic is routed through a small number of cables submerged deep below the oceans.

And the very people taking multiple medications – often frail, older people with four or five chronic conditions – are usually excluded from clinical trials, so we are often prescribing "in the dark", or at least in the half-light.

"These bald statistics represent many thousands of patients, often frail and elderly, who have finished their medical treatment but can't leave hospital because there isn't enough support for them to go back to their own homes, or even to care homes," added Edwards.

Patients, who often are frail or live far from their doctors, can be spared frequent office visits.

Today, Groening sits face to face with his now grey-haired and often equally frail surviving victims and their relatives.

Other house calls are more like office visits, but done at home, often for frail older patients.

In West Sussex, a pilot project promises to show how therapists will hold the key to supporting independence and preventing unnecessary hospital stays at a time when fragmentation of services often means frail elderly people stay in hospital too long instead of getting care at home.

Yet history shows clearly how often we frail human beings can thwart that conviction.