Saturday, 28 Sep 2024

Frailty – prevention

In my last blog I defined (rather imprecisely) frailty but I failed to tell you how you might check yourself…

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Saturday, 14 Sep 2024

Frailty – an enormous problem

An apology This blog is one week late – very sorry and it won’t happen again. Frailty – again For…

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Saturday, 10 Aug 2024

Significance of fitness test result

Last time I described the Cooper and Rockport tests for measuring your own cardio-respiratory fitness (CRF). For my money these…

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Monday, 26 Feb 2024

Frailty Part2

Apologies Many more apologies for the false start last weekend – here is the Blog which nearly got sent by…

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Saturday, 24 Feb 2024

Recent advances – Frailty Part 2

Apologies Many more apologies for the false start last weekend – here is the Blog which nearly got sent by…

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Saturday, 10 Feb 2024

Recent advances – Frailty Part 1

Frailty of old age is an under-recognised pandemic in Westernised societies. So what is it? The definition of frailty It…

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Saturday, 16 Dec 2023

Recent advances. Weight management

Today’s illustration is the Willendorf Venus, about 25,000 BCE and the oldest known representation of the human form – obesity…

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Saturday, 11 Feb 2023

Do we really need more ambulances?

Accessing old blogs Before diving into this week’s blog, I said last time that I would explain how to access…

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Saturday, 13 Aug 2022

Frailty & Care of the Elderly

I have now sent you five blogs expressing the view that frailty is not inevitable – it is preventable. If…

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Saturday, 6 Aug 2022

Frailty Part 5

I thought that I might have exhausted this topic with four blogs on the subject – but i have touched…

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