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Frailty

Frailty is a clinical state of increased vulnerability to adverse health outcomes that results from age-related decline across multiple physiological systems, leaving an individual less able to recover from stressors such as illness, injury, or surgery. Commonly recognised features include reduced muscle strength an…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 12 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 32× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2474-7785 🗓 Reviewed July 2026

Overview

Frailty is a clinical state of increased vulnerability to adverse health outcomes that results from age-related decline across multiple physiological systems, leaving an individual less able to recover from stressors such as illness, injury, or surgery. Commonly recognised features include reduced muscle strength and mass, slowed walking speed, exhaustion, low physical activity, and unintended weight loss, and frailty is associated with heightened risk of falls, disability, hospitalisation, and mortality. It is increasingly understood as a dynamic condition that can be assessed, prevented, and in some cases reversed, making its measurement central to the care of older adults. Within this field the journal publishes peer-reviewed research on frailty and the immune system, on the relationship between fear of falling and frailty, and on associations between frailty and osteoarthritis. Further studies examine frailty in the context of long COVID, frailty markers in young people living with HIV, hand-grip strength as a nutritional and functional assessment tool in long-term care, and muscle dysfunction in healthy ageing. Related work on hip-fracture outcomes, discharge disposition after traumatic injury in older women, social isolation during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the geriatric oncology population reflects the broad relevance of frailty to ageing research and the delivery of healthcare for older people.

Research published in this journal

12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

2017

Frailty and the Immune System

Wilson DaisyCorresponding author
Institute of Ageing and Inflammation, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK, B15 2GW
Exact topic Aging Research And Healthcare Cited by 19 doi:10.14302/issn.2474-7785.jarh-17-1578
2021

Fear of Falls and Frailty: Cause or Consequence or Both?

Marks RayCorresponding author
Department of Health and Behavior Studies, Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA.
Exact topic Aging Research And Healthcare Cited by 4 doi:10.14302/issn.2474-7785.jarh-21-4041

How this research is being cited

The 12 articles above have been cited 32 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

A sample of recent works citing this journal's research on Frailty, linking to each citing work.

Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in Aging Research And Healthcare (ISSN 2474-7785).

Journal editorial board
Anna Aiello · Italy Juan Manuel Carmona Torres · Spain IAN JAMES MARTINS · Australia

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