Background<\/strong>: Growing old is a remarkable journey filled with diverse experiences and wisdom. It\u2019s a time when individuals often reflect on their lives, cherish memories, and share invaluable lessons with younger generations. Understanding aging is crucial as it encompasses more than just physiological and psychological processes, to comprehend the subjective sensations of the phenomenon of \u201cbeing an elderly person\u201d.<\/p>\nObjective<\/strong>: The purpose of this study was to describe the daily lives of frail older adults living alone in Quezon City.<\/p>\nMethods<\/strong>: The study utilized a qualitative research design. The approach employed was a descriptive phenomenological study describing the fundamental nature of being an elderly. The population consisted of frail older adult people (>60 years old) assessed using the Clinical Frailty Scale and living alone in Quezon city using a purposive sampling of those who were present in their homes during the designated interview period. The study was conducted in a private, safe and secured place both agreed by the participants and the researcher through face to face interview.<\/p>\nResults<\/strong>: Being an frail older adult in this study essentially involves balancing one\u2019s life in a flow of motion. The older adult is balancing a number of life-altering events and a shift in their circumstances influenced by recollections from various stages of life. In the life of an older adult, all ages are harmonious and wisely expressed and developed from pleasant and lovely or less pleasant and beautiful or more stressful early life experiences that went throughout adolescence and young adulthood, middle age, and later years. Their family, children and grandchildren were their source of strength and inspiration. Conclusion<\/strong>: This study gave light on the realities faced daily by a frail older adult. Insights gained from this study serve as an opportunity to develop or innovate appropriate support. This information is crucial for clinicians, community-based aged care providers, legislators, elderly associations, and other concerned citizens. On a local level, the government unit\u2019s key officials or proponents for the welfare of older adults are encouraged to delve deeper and focus on the unique needs and life experiences of the elderly population.<\/p>\nKey words<\/strong>: Frail, elderly person, clinical frailty scale<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,258],"tags":[16,273,272,271],"class_list":["post-4650","abstract","type-abstract","status-publish","hentry","category-abstract","category-abstract-2025-volume-63-issue-1","tag-abstract","tag-clinical-frailty-scale","tag-elderly-person","tag-frail"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepafp.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/abstract\/4650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepafp.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/abstract"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepafp.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/abstract"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thepafp.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/abstract\/4650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4652,"href":"https:\/\/thepafp.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/abstract\/4650\/revisions\/4652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepafp.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepafp.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepafp.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}