Aging is often accompanied by weakness, difficulty walking, and declining cognition. This frailty results in adverse health outcomes including disability, hospitalization, and mortality. A new study from the National University of Singapore (NUS) finds that among frail elders, good nutrition, physical training, and mental exercises can reverse many of the physical challenges associated with aging and improve cognition. Associate Professor Ng Tze Pin, from the Department of Psychological Medicine at the NUS Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, led the research team. The study adds to earlier findings that physically frail elderly persons are eight times as likely to be cognitive impaired at the same time compared to their robust counterparts. And, if a physically frail individual is not cognitively impaired, they are more than five times at risk of becoming cognitively impaired on follow up three years later. "In addition, physically frail elderly persons are two to 10 times as likely to