(HealthDay News) — A multidimensional frailty score composed of comprehensive geriatric assessments is more useful than conventional methods for predicting surgery outcomes, including all-cause ...

A study found that having a better sleep health composite score was associated with a lower risk of physical frailty, with men and women possessing different risk factors. A study published in Sleep ...

Physical frailty is strongly associated with an increased dementia risk in older adults, and according to researchers, the link may be causal. In an analysis of nearly half a million UK Biobank ...

Frailty — a clinical syndrome characterized by decreased physiological reserve and increased vulnerability to stressors — has traditionally been associated with geriatric medicine but has profound ...

Frailty begins to accelerate 4 to 9 years before dementia onset and may help identify at-risk populations for prevention strategies. Study: Frailty Trajectories Preceding Dementia in the US and UK.