Word: frailest
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...survive, some facilities are taking in or holding on to sicker residents and increasing the fees they charge to serve them. Sunrise Assisted Living, one of the few companies whose stock price has remained steady, told its investors it is now marketing to "the frailest of the frail." This is welcome news for many residents and their families who believe that the ability to "age in place" is a blessing, even if their care needs are changing. Carrie Cyphert, 89, who suffers from advanced Alzheimer's disease, has been in an Alterra memory-care facility in Portage, Mich., since September...
...several landmark studies done at Tufts University in the late '80s and mid-'90s revealed that seniors had the most to gain from such activity. A particularly astounding 1995 study by Maria Fiatarone, overseen by Evans, showed that with a high-intensity regimen, even the oldest and frailest nursing-home residents, ages 86 to 96, tripled their muscle strength and greatly improved their balance and flexibility. All performed everyday tasks, like opening jars and getting up out of chairs, more easily. Some abandoned their canes and walkers...
AIDS in Africa bears little resemblance to the American epidemic, limited to specific high-risk groups and brought under control through intensive education, vigorous political action and expensive drug therapy. Here the disease has bred a Darwinian perversion. Society's fittest, not its frailest, are the ones who die--adults spirited away, leaving the old and the children behind. You cannot define risk groups: everyone who is sexually active is at risk. Babies too, unwittingly infected by mothers. Barely a single family remains untouched. Most do not know how or when they caught the virus, many never know they have...