Pain is associated with an increased risk for and intensity of frailty in older adults, according to findings of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA).
A team of researchers at the University of Manchester, in England, studied 5,316 community-dwelling men and women (mean age, 64.5 years) utilizing data from Waves 2 and 6 of the ELSA study, which spanned eight years of follow-up (J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 2016 Nov 11. [Epub ahead of print]). At Wave 2, participants were asked