Grip strength is a good predictor of overall strength and health — so if it's getting harder to open a jar, it might be time ...

A new article examines how social isolation, loneliness and frailty affect one another and the bidirectional relationship they exert as an individual gets older. hey found that physical frailty can be ...

A group of researchers from Rutgers and Michigan State Universities have launched a major study to examine the long-term effects of structural racism on cognitive aging, physical decline and frailty — ...

Interventions to improve health literacy should be further investigated or developed to assist individuals with limited ...

Discover how increased frailty serves as an early predictor of dementia risk, potentially guiding preventative strategies to ...

Frailty is associated with an increased risk for dementia, new findings showed, with an acceleration of frailty observed 4-9 years prior to dementia onset.

Parallels between spaceflight and the aging process may extend to encompass frailty.Figure Left: Venn diagram of ...

DEMENTIA can cause a number of physical changes in a person – but some of these changes could appear years before a diagnosis ...

Gabapentinoids -- pregabalin and gabapentin -- were tied to increased hip fracture risk in older adults. Gabapentinoids -- ...

"People age at different rates and the number of health problems that accumulate is captured by their degree of frailty. By ...

Research shows frailty levels rise significantly before dementia, suggesting it could be a key marker for early ...

Frailty -- a measure of health deficits in multiple body systems -- was tied to future risk of dementia, longitudinal data ...