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 ...

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 ...

"What that tells me is that muscle density isn't just sort of a proxy measure of overall health or frailty or aging," she said. "Otherwise, we would see it with stroke and other outcomes, too." Larsen ...

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 — ...