Younger adults who experience frailty face a higher risk of death and emergency hospital admission, according to new University of Dundee research published in The Lancet Healthy Longevity. The study, ...

In this review, we first provide a brief overview of frailty, including biologic mechanisms, measurement, and clinical management. This overview is followed by a discussion of approaches to ...

Researchers have uncovered a major blind spot in the way doctors assess future health risk in young adults who suffer a heart attack. Published today in the European Heart Journal, the study, led by ...

Older adults’ levels of frailty and social deprivation relative to their risks for death vary depending on where they live in the United States, and these levels can vary by county as well as by state ...

Some of the most powerful interventions to slow or improve frailty are also the most ordinary: regular movement, adequate nutrition and meaningful social connection. It almost sounds too simple for a ...