Objective Use of the frailty index to measure an accumulation of deficits has been proven a
valuable method for identifying elderly people at risk for increased vulnerability, disease …

Aim Depression and frailty are prevalent and burdensome in older age. However, the
relationships between these entities are unclear and no quantitative meta-analysis exists …

Frailty, a critical intermediate status of the aging process that is at increased risk for negative
health-related events, includes physical, cognitive, and psychosocial domains or …

Frailty and depression are important issues affecting older adults. Depressive syndrome
may be difficult to clinically disambiguate from frailty in advanced old age. Current reviews …

The frailty syndrome has recently attracted attention of the scientific community and public
health organizations as precursor and contributor of age-related conditions (particularly …

Incidence rates of cognitive impairment and dementia are rising with the ageing population.
Meanwhile, the limited success of current treatments has led to a search for early markers of …

The concept of 'successful aging'has long intrigued the scientific community. Despite this
long-standing interest, a consensus definition has proven to be a difficult task, due to the …

Abstract Background/Objectives Over the past decade, the quantity and quality of social
relationships in later life have become one of the main challenges facing an aging society …

Background One of the major threats looming over the growing older population is frailty. It is
a distinctive health state characterised by increased vulnerability to internal and external …

Age-related hearing loss (ARHL), presbycusis, is a chronic health condition that affects
approximately one-third of the world's population. The peripheral and central hearing …