The need for personal assistance often changes with increasing age and associated functional decline.

Expanding such models to consider frailty, cognitive and functional decline, or nonadherence to anticoagulant therapy is warranted.

Investigators have found lower MMSE scores at admission predictive of functional decline following acute medical illness and hospitalization [ 26 ] .

Age-related changes that result in functional decline, cognitive impairment, frailty, or psychiatric illness increase vulnerability for self-neglect.

More specifically, negligibly senescent animals do not have measurable reductions in their reproductive capability with age, or measurable functional decline with age.

Impaired executive functioning has been found to be the best predictor of functional decline in the elderly.

According to the Free-radical theory, oxidative damage initiated by reactive oxygen species is a major contributor to the functional decline that is characteristic of aging.

Evaluation of the elderly patient is often complex due to the many comorbid conditions encountered in this population often compounded by cognitive disorders, functional decline, polypharmacy and limited social supports.

Effects of coenzyme Q10 in early Parkinson disease: evidence of slowing of the functional decline.

Hearing difficulties in older people can have serious consequences, including social isolation, functional decline and depression.