In such cases, the physical frailty of the old person may be the only element in the situation which has changed.

Petri was unable to accept the offer due to physical frailty.

Our second biggest health problem, he says, is physical frailty.

I certainly would not rule out another major win for Roger unless the others can overcome their mental and physical frailties.

Yet the changes in image that add stress to an adult child's relationship with her parents may have little to do with physical frailties.

However his extreme physical frailty worsened with age and hard work.

After that, she was affected by cataracts in both eyes which, with some physical frailty, forced her to stop painting from life.

The geneticist had seemed so indestructible, despite the fact that everyone knew of her physical frailty.

Until that time he wanted no reminders of his physical frailty.

It was one of the few physical frailties they shared with their prey.