ABSTRACT
The present author has previously described frailty in terms of the health provider’s perception of the patient rather than the expression of a defined clinical state.1 Frailty is a condition of multifactorial origin, particularly influenced by and associated with advanced age, without necessarily having an evident underlying etiologic basis. For example, such non-specific findings as leg and arm weakness, reduced vision or hearing, and anxiety were associated with frailty in a cohort of older persons living in the community.2
