Frail patients should have tailored cardiac rehabilitation programmes

European experts have called for frail patients to have tailored cardiac rehabilitation programmes in a paper published in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology. Frailty is a vulnerable state in older people. It is common, occurring in 30–50% of people over 75 years of age. Patients have low physiological reserves and their organs do not function at full capacity. They use a greater proportion of their reserves to survive and small events can lead to deterioration, disability, cardiovascular events, and death.  “In frail patients, a minor illness or intervention that would not cause problems in younger adults can initiate a