Support for cognitive frailties, such as sensory stimulation and ease of way-finding, was associated with outward signs of positive emotion.
Activating these components may be problematic for people in advanced old age with frailties or who are residents of old-age institutions.
Support provided by the building for residents with physical frailties, including reduced mobility and sensory impairment, was related to the residents' ability to control their immediate environment.
Moreover, it has helped widen our understanding of international political economy and it has given us a greater insight into the systemic frailties within global capitalism.
In the early part of this century older people with mental frailties were considered to be demented as a natural result of the ageing process, senility.
If the resident's cognitive or physical frailties did not preclude it, and the resident consented, structured interviews were conducted in private, usually in the resident's bedroom.
One of the ways in which residents used humour was in relation to their physical frailties, making light of their own and each other's ageing bodies.
Joking about frailty was also a means of acknowledging the presence of death.
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