Background: Frailty has been shown to be associated with disability in the previous studies.
However, it is not clear how consistently or to how much degree frailty is actually associated …

Introduction. Although frailty is common among community-dwelling older adults, its
prevalence in Europe and how this varies between countries is unclear. Methods. A …

Currently the human population is aging faster. This leads to higher dependency rates and
the transformation of health and social care to adapt to this aged population. Among the …

Age-related hearing impairment (ARHI, also known as presbycusis) is potentially a
reversible risk factor for dementia and Alzheimer disease (AD). Social isolation, loneliness …

Objectives Cognitive frailty, a condition describing the simultaneous presence of physical
frailty and mild cognitive impairment, has been recently defined by an international …

Objectives We first estimated the prevalence of physical frailty in older subjects from the
population-based Salus in Apulia Study (Apulia, Southern Italy), and its impact on all-cause …

Background Protein intake has been inversely associated with frailty. However, no study has
examined the effect of the difference of protein sources (animal or plant) or the amino acid …

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to analyze the relationship between cognition and
frailty in the elderly. METHODS: A systematic review on the currently existing literature …

Advancing age is the focus of recent studies on familial and sporadic Alzheimer's disease
(AD), suggesting a prolonged pre-clinical phase several decades before the onset of …

Objective Cognitive frailty is a condition recently defined by operationalized criteria
describing the simultaneous presence of physical frailty and mild cognitive impairment …