Our mission is to provide state-of-the-art information on frailty-related science and how it might impact health and wellness for older adults. Our goal is to improve the understanding of how frailty develops, how to best assess it, and how to best treat and prevent frailty-related decline.

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Cancer is a disease of older adults. About 60% of cancers occur in people 65 years of age or older. Furthermore, about 70% of the deaths caused by cancers occur in this stage (White et al., 2019).

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Simplifying Frailty Assessment in Kidney Transplant Patients: Introducing the Abridged Frailty Phenotype

September 20, 2023/by Evelien Quint, MD

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Mitochondrial Dysfunction and Frailty

One major feature of physical frailty is the lack of ‘energy’ often described fatigue by frail older adults. Early hypotheses of the underlying causes of physical frailty included the proposal that mitochondrial....

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