Recent research suggests that measuring "social frailty" and weak social connections can be used as a predictor of dementia. Martin Mischkulnig, 13PHOTO/Redux As people age, frailty starts to creep in ...
Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...
Hearing loss and dementia affect millions of people worldwide. But headlines describing hearing loss as the "leading midlife risk factor" for dementia can be misleading. They often oversimplify ...
As people age, frailty starts to creep in. Falls are more damaging and take longer to heal, muscles weaken, walking slows. And on top of physical frailty, people can also become “socially frail” as ...