Frailty progression was associated with fewer days alive at home (DAH), regardless of age or frailty level at baseline, a new study shows. Compared with people with frailty regression, people with ...

Middle-aged or older adults with a prefrail or frail status had a significantly higher risk for incident dementia than those with a robust status. The risk for dementia rose sharply in participants ...

Swallowing difficulty serves as a significant predictor of frailty progression in older adults, according to new research following nearly 800 community-dwelling Japanese seniors over two years. The ...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and a new phenotype of lung function impairment predicted progression of frailty in older adults, based on data from more than 5000 individuals. COPD has been ...

Identifying adults at high risk of frailty and implementing appropriate interventions are critical for extending healthy life expectancy. To examine whether abdominal obesity predicts frailty ...

Frailty in older adults is increasingly recognised as a multifaceted syndrome characterised by diminished physiological reserve, resulting in heightened vulnerability to adverse health events and a ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . ORLANDO, Fla. — In older men, higher levels of certain anabolic hormones may predict a lower risk for worsening ...

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A new study shows that older adults with type 2 diabetes who start treatment with sodium–glucose cotransporter-2 (SGLT-2) inhibitors-such as empagliflozin (Jardiance) and dapagliflozin (Farxiga)-or ...

In a United States Medicare study, older adults with type 2 diabetes who started SGLT 2 inhibitors or GLP 1 receptor agonists had slower frailty progression over one year than those starting DPP 4 ...