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There is no single best definition of frailty. The vernacular term frailty has been used to describe those who are feeble, weak, the most debilitated, and the oldest old. Synonyms of frailty include decrepitude, defect, deficiency, error, failing, fallibility, imperfection, infirmity, and susceptibility. In medicine, the term frail elderly has been a Medline MeSH term since 1991 and is defined as older adults or aged individuals who are lacking in general strength and are unusually susceptible to disease or to other infirmity.A distinction between frailty due to physiologic vulnerability and frailty associated with biopsychosocial and environmental interactions, comorbidities and functional limitation has also been posited..There are many potential risk factors: physiologic, medical illness/comorbidity, sociodemographic, psychological, and disability .A total number of 100 patients were included in this work in the period from january 2011 to september 2011.The included subjectes of study were divided into three groups according to fried criteria;
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