The management of frail older people is a key component of aged care. There has been a
plethora of tools developed for the diagnosis and screening of frailty. Some of these tools …

With older adults living longer, health service providers have increasingly turned their
attention towards frailty and its significant consequences for health and well-being …

Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Titles, this key textbook offers an insight on
the theory of emotional intelligence and its vital practical value. Elegantly and succinctly …

Many older adults experience what is clinically recognised as frailty but little is known about
the perceptions of, and attitudes regarding, being frail. This qualitative study explored adults' …

Within policy and practice there is an increasing interest in the care of frail elders. However
understanding of the experience and challenges of living and dying with frailty in older age …

Sociologists Georg Simmel and Max Weber conceived the idea of lifestyle to identify the
social connections between individualism and consumerism that emerged with modernity …

Within western cultures, portrayals of dementia as 'a living death'are being challenged by
people living with the diagnosis. Yet dementia remains one of the most feared conditions …

Frailty has become a topic of increasing interest in health care. No longer treated as a catch-
all term for agedness, decline and disablement it has acquired a more precise definition …

Focusing on the experiences of older people, I argue that geographers could contribute to
understanding what it means to receive care. I explore some geographical literature that …

Objectives Despite growing interest in frailty as a significant public health challenge,
comparatively little is known about how older adults perceive and experience frailty, limiting …