In this study, advanced age and mechanical ventilation were not associated with a significant mortality.
24 In this study, advanced age in combination with frailty was mentioned most frequently as the reason for conservative treatment.
Nevertheless, in this work, advanced age was not significantly associated with the development of cancer in any study region.
In addition to the presence of comorbidities common in this population, advanced age itself was determined to be a strong predictor of mortality [ 34, 35].
Add this to Sanders' advanced age for a Presidential candidate (he'll be 75 if elected in 2016), and you've got a less than appealing image for most Democratic strategists.
In this study however, advanced age was found to be a trivial predictor of mortality.
Our study is in agreement with previous studies in this aspect, except advanced age, which was comparable between survivors and non-survivors.
The most significant predictors of this condition are advanced age, recent hospitalization, and polypharmacy, as shown in a study of Tennessee Medicare patients (51).
From the perspectives of the elderly, the reasons for this could be advanced age, loss of the spouse, and deteriorating health; from the perspectives of the children, the reasons may be related to economic status or mental and physical status.
The potential factors associated with frailty in this study were advanced age, female gender, presence of comorbidity, dependence in some basic ADL or IADL, depressive symptoms, cognitive impairment, and negative self-perception of health status.
As Freud put it, "Our habit is to lay stress on the fortuitous causation of the death – accident, disease, infection, advanced age; in this way we betray an effort to reduce death from a necessity to a chance event".
