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This treatment clears space in the bone marrow for the incoming cells, but it can be extremely taxing, particularly for older or medically frail patients.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026

She added that she was now too frail to travel to Switzerland to end her life.

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026

It claimed hypoglycemia - low blood sugar - in the frail and elderly is not as vanishingly rare as was once thought, suggesting the jury had been misinformed.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

During Weinstein’s trial last year, prosecutor Nicole Blumberg told the jury that, in contrast to the producer’s frail appearance in court, he once exercised enormous control over the entertainment industry.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

Then he began to cough, a deep, rasping cough that shook his frail body terribly.

From "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok

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

When she returned to us in January, Grandma was even frailer, and she needed to be on oxygen all the time.

From "Courage to Soar" by Simone Biles

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

These are the sickest and frailest patients - the ones who cannot be sent home immediately after treatment.

From BBC ● Dec. 7, 2022

To date, 78 of Ukraine’s frailest Holocaust survivors, of whom there are some 10,000, have been evacuated.

From New York Times ● Apr. 29, 2022

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

From Reuters ● Nov. 10, 2021

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