Physical frailty and decline in general and specific cognitive abilities

Frailty has been conceptualised as reduction in the functional capacity of multiple physiological systems, and results in a wide range of outcomes, including physical limitations, impaired activities of daily living, falls and fractures, hospitalisation and mortality.1 These outcomes also include cognitive decline,1 which in combination with psychiatric morbidity is the biggest cause of disability in the UK and other Western countries. Gale et...