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Is there a single word to describe 'old and frail'?

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PennyChan
 
Reply Sat 27 Nov, 2010 03:23 am
Is there a single word to describe 'aged and frail'?
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Miller
 
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Reply Sat 27 Nov, 2010 10:19 am
@PennyChan,
geriatric?
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Rockhead
 
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Reply Sat 27 Nov, 2010 10:22 am
@PennyChan,
decrepit
Mame
 
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Reply Sat 27 Nov, 2010 10:38 am
@Rockhead,
lol


I don't think there is one word to express that, no.
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Miller
 
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Reply Sat 27 Nov, 2010 11:17 am
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In the words of Cheryl Phillips MD, a Sacramento geriatrician, “the particular focus of geriatrics training is the care of frail elders.


Thus, geriatrics is the medical field concerned with the care of frail elders, as opposed to the field of gerontology ( the science/study of the aging process).
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Pemerson
 
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Reply Sat 27 Nov, 2010 12:14 pm
What's wrong with just saying elderly.
Francis
 
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Reply Sat 27 Nov, 2010 12:20 pm
@Pemerson,
I meet some elders not specially frail..
ehBeth
 
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Reply Sat 27 Nov, 2010 12:30 pm
@Pemerson,
I don't think elderly implies frail.
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margo
 
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Reply Sat 27 Nov, 2010 12:32 pm
and we know some frail who are not elderly.....
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Pemerson
 
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Reply Sat 27 Nov, 2010 12:32 pm
@Francis,
Francis wrote:

I meet some elders not specially frail..

OK, then, frail and elderly. Oh, wait, it's one word for this description? Ya got me.
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roger
 
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Reply Sat 27 Nov, 2010 02:27 pm
@PennyChan,
Feeble
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eurocelticyankee
 
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Reply Sat 27 Nov, 2010 02:47 pm
@PennyChan,
Why do you ask Pennychan.
Would you be planning on putting an elderly relative in to a home and your trying to save on paper and ink?
Wink Wink Wink

Dinosaur.
roger
 
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Reply Sat 27 Nov, 2010 03:03 pm
@eurocelticyankee,
Why would you pick dinosaur to mean frail?
eurocelticyankee
 
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Reply Sat 27 Nov, 2010 03:05 pm
@roger,
Maybe it could be an elderly dinosaur.

A Dinopensionerous.
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spendius
 
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Reply Sat 27 Nov, 2010 03:09 pm
Fucked.
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eurocelticyankee
 
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Reply Sat 27 Nov, 2010 05:21 pm
@roger,
Or an Oldtimersaurous, or a Grannyraptor.
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Francis
 
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Reply Sun 28 Nov, 2010 03:17 am
What do you think of doddering?
roger
 
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Reply Sun 28 Nov, 2010 03:52 am
@Francis,
I just hate that word, but it's probably the closest we will get.
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contrex
 
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Reply Sun 28 Nov, 2010 03:54 am
Why do Chinese learners of English keep asking if there is "one word" for various things? I've noticed this a lot.
Francis
 
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Reply Sun 28 Nov, 2010 03:55 am
@contrex,
Maybe a cultural thing..
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