Canberra, May 16 -- Feeling older than your years, struggling with loneliness, or holding bleak views about getting older could be early red flags for frailty - even in your 40s, according to new research from Australia's Flinders University.
The study, published in the journal BMC Public Health, challenges the idea that frailty is only a condition of later life. Instead, researchers found that psychological and social cues could point to pre-frailty - a reversible stage - decades earlier than expected, according to Xinhua.
"Many people assume frailty is something that happens when we get much older," said lead author Tom Brennan from Flinders University's Caring Futures Institute.
"But our findings suggest psychological and behavioural...