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Frailty
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Feeding malnourished older inpatients properly tracked lower death rates and shorter stays
Hospital dietitians are stretched across every ward. Tracking 17,057 inpatients averaging 78 found the gains concentrated entirely in the patients who arrived already malnourished.
Sep 16, 2026
Frail kidney patients had triple the odds of cognitive impairment across 129,868 people
Whether frailty and thinking problems travel together in chronic kidney disease had produced conflicting findings. A Journal of Nursing Scholarship meta-analysis of 17 studies settles the direction: frail patients had three times the odds.
Aug 26, 2026
Pharmacist deprescribing cut 2.5 drugs per patient, but six-month totals held steady
A Dutch trial trained pharmacists to strip back prescriptions for 318 people aged over 75 on long medication lists. They cut or stopped more drugs than usual care did. Six months on, the total count and quality of life were unchanged.
Aug 17, 2026
One in three healthy middle-aged adults was prefrail
A GeroScience study of 117,163 UK Biobank participants with no diagnosed chronic disease found 32.8% met criteria for prefrailty, alongside changes across nine body systems.
Aug 6, 2026