Of course, those with worsening levels of health are less likely to be seen outdoors walking by your vantage point because they are most likely to be housebound, or hospitalized. When a person has sunk to this level of ill health, the medical profession will do what they can to shore things up but unless the person themselves can bring about a change from within, they will be doomed to their fate no matter how hard the doctors work. The make a miraculous recovery from ill health that has gotten the doctors worried the person might not pull through, that person has got to want to get better with such conviction and determination that they bring it about by themselves.