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 ...

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 ...

2023 JUN 14 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News-- New research on Science is the subject of a report. According to news reporting originating in Seoul, South Korea ...

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 ...

Can pre-frailty and frailty predict the risk for cardiovascular events like myocardial infarction or stroke? According to new study findings, frailty in older adults is a dynamic state that often ...

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 ...

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 ...