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Frailty is sometimes defined as the inability to withstand illness without loss of function or a loss of functional homeostasis.
Rather than a dichotomous characteristic separating older subjects into two distinct subgroups, it is viewed as a progressive loss of capacity to adapt to complexity and to environmental stressors [ 10], and as a decline in the ability of an individual to withstand illness without loss of function (functional homeostasis) [ 11, 12].
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