News Finding: Understanding frailty could potentially help us extend people's quality of life into their later years."
Paper Finding: In conclusion, our findings support the importance of frailty in late-life health etiology.
News Context: "We would love for frailty assessment to become a standard component of assessment of older Americans. Understanding frailty could potentially help us extend people's quality of life into their later years." Understanding frailty, and finding ways to prevent its onset or slow its progression, could improve older people's quality of life by extending their so-called robust years.
Paper Context: These data confirm that rapid decline is not inevitable after the mid-80s. In conclusion, our findings support the importance of frailty in late-life health etiology. They bolster evidence for deploying frailty measures as clinical tools to identify at-risk older adults in whom interventions might be targeted.