Frail

Biden 'looked frail' during Miami debate, Obama's former doctor saysA doctor who served former President Obama for more than 20 years before his presidency said this week he thought former Vice President Joe Biden "looked frail".

Frail elderly patients (score of 4 or 5) have even worse outcomes, with the risk of being discharged to a nursing home rising to twenty times the rate for non-frail elderly people.

Benedict had been frail for years, and the Vatican three days earlier had said Benedict’s health was worsening.

Both teams have looked frail defensively this season.

Frail as he is, relatives said they were certain he has hung on through more than nine months of hospice care because he did not want Mrs. Carter to be left alone.

He said Francis should be OK after a few weeks of recovery, but he noted that the aging pope is already frail.

In 2004, a frail, unwell Nelson Mandela ignored his doctor’s advice and flew halfway around the globe to win Jack’s support in persuading other officials of Fifa, soccer’s ruling body, to hold the 2010 World Cup in South Africa.

Listeria can cause serious and sometimes deadly infections in young children, frail or elderly people and those who are immune-compromised.

Many on the overnight shift at Edgewood Brainerd sensed the danger of returning a frail resident to a bed with a railing that choked him until his face turned purple.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the frail, old man with a toothless smile, tugs a billion beating hearts of our country.

My paternal grandmother, Clare, was a frail lady; she was involved in a bad car accident in the 1950s, before I was born.

Poorer than average experiences were recorded overall for people admitted for emergency care, the frail, those with dementia, Alzheimer's or a neurological condition and those aged 50 and under.

She looked so frail.

So they purchase a frail, ragged, dirty old woman who turns out to be their mother.

Sources said most of the people waiting were elderly and frail patients, with many sitting in wheelchairs or on stretchers.

The exhausted rescuer, who had been on a mission to map the cave network, was too frail to climb out himself, so rescuers carried him with the help of a stretcher, making frequent stops at temporary camps set up along the way.

The moment felt rigid and frail, like a ship just beginning to sink below the sea.

Travis Lee Clark, who’s known Mr. Robertson for years from working at their church ward together, described Mr. Robertson as “frail of health,” a masterful woodworker, and an “established icon” in their community.

We grow up, we grow old, we grow frail, we die.

And Dr Amati said that doctors around the country did not diagnose protein deficiency very often at all ‘part from those who are at risk, who are undernourished or frail’.