Across the sample as a whole, prevalence of frailty was 4.7% among those legally married. Among those divorced it was 10.6%, among those widowed it was 11.4%, and among those separated it was 16.4%. While this difference in prevalence of frailty is likely to have more to do with age than with living as a couple, it is suggestive of the impact of the immediate social environment on an older person’s ability to continue to maintain activities and functions associated with independent living and an absence of frailty.