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However, it's important to note that personal care takes in things like helping frail elderly people wash and dress and go to the toilet.

From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026

WIMBLEDON, England—Powerful, pale, occasionally frail Jannik Sinner is becoming inevitable in men’s tennis.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026

“People have a very difficult time putting themselves in their own future, in their more frail bodies,” Geber said.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 12, 2026

Although increasingly frail and confined to a wheelchair, he was actively involved in the staging of a wide-ranging exhibition of his career in Paris in April 2025.

From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026

Besides, even if I had wanted to flee, Father had become so frail in body and mind that he could not have endured such a journey.

From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman

That made it possible for older, frailer patients to survive with “mini-transplants.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 19, 2026

This previously manifested through mostly vibes-based measures: Does his voice sound a little frailer?

From Slate ● Jul. 18, 2025

All three can also be self-reinforcing over time: people who are lonely and socially isolated may become frailer, and as they become frailer, their sense of isolation and loneliness grows.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 14, 2024

It raises questions of the drug's "real-world" effectiveness in older, frailer people with multiple health conditions, and even "mixed" dementia which could be part Alzheimer's and part another disease.

From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2024

“There you are,” said Hodza, a handsome boy of Tendai’s age but of a frailer build.

From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer

In a long-term care system that subjects some of society’s frailest to daily indignities, Medicaid’s personal needs allowance, as the stipend is called, is among the most ubiquitous, yet least known.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 15, 2023

They have needed fewer GP and hospital visits, but the biggest impact has been among some of the frailest patients.

From BBC ● Jan. 16, 2023

Unable to speak, Qawasmi, 24, is the frailest of the six.

From Reuters ● Nov. 10, 2021

At Life Care, where elderly and sick people come to heal from broken hips and strokes, or simply to live out their frailest years, the death toll has continued to climb.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 6, 2020

The Uncle wrapped thick knitted blankets around them and gave them hot tea, although of the three of them, he looked the frailest and in need of a rest.

From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega