CANBERRA, May 16 (Xinhua) — Feeling older than your age, experiencing loneliness, or having negative perceptions about aging could be early signs of frailty, even in your 40s, according to research from Australia’s Flinders University.
The study highlights that frailty isn’t just a condition of old age, but can begin much earlier with subtle psychological and social cues, a press release from the Adelaide-based university said on Thursday.
“Many people assume frailty is something that happens when we get much older,” but the findings suggest psychological and behavioral warning signs can appear decades earlier, said the study’s lead author Tom Brennan from Flinders University’s Caring Futures Institute.
Frailty is a recognized medical condition marked by reduced strength, energy, and resilience, often…