0 the fact of being in very bad condition because of being old, or not having been cared for, or having been used a lot:
the inevitable decline towards decrepitude and death
The ' look of age ' is most obviously the body weathered by decrepitude.
First, it is seen as a disease that features decrepitude.
The bodily conditions of two other recent deaths are noted, but there is no institutional inducement for the elaboration of contrasting decrepitude.
Proceeding northwards, the author passed through many towns and villages, most of which were in a depressing state of decrepitude.
The idea of the ' continuum of care ', for example, is a paradigm of decrepitude and caregiving that links conceptually the institution at one end with home care at the other.
