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FRAILTY: A Report from the 3(rd) Joint Workshop of IAGG/WHO/SFGG, Athens, January 2012
Frailty represents a growing challenge to modern health-care systems. This paper reports on a conference on frailty held in Athens in January 2012. Papers from 11 groups, including those of the authors, were presented and discussed over two days. Several approaches to frailty and its operationalizat...
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Canadian Geriatrics Society
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3516241/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23259017 http://dx.doi.org/10.5770/cgj.15.35 |
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description | Frailty represents a growing challenge to modern health-care systems. This paper reports on a conference on frailty held in Athens in January 2012. Papers from 11 groups, including those of the authors, were presented and discussed over two days. Several approaches to frailty and its operationalization (including biomarkers) and to social vulnerability were discussed. The search programs that incorporate multiple measures and allows them to be tested were encouraged. |
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spelling | pubmed-35162412012-12-20 FRAILTY: A Report from the 3(rd) Joint Workshop of IAGG/WHO/SFGG, Athens, January 2012 Rockwood, Kenneth Bergman, Howard Can Geriatr J Reviews Frailty represents a growing challenge to modern health-care systems. This paper reports on a conference on frailty held in Athens in January 2012. Papers from 11 groups, including those of the authors, were presented and discussed over two days. Several approaches to frailty and its operationalization (including biomarkers) and to social vulnerability were discussed. The search programs that incorporate multiple measures and allows them to be tested were encouraged. Canadian Geriatrics Society 2012-07-03 /pmc/articles/PMC3516241/ /pubmed/23259017 http://dx.doi.org/10.5770/cgj.15.35 Text en © 2012 Author(s). Published by the Canadian Geriatrics Society. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No-Derivative license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ca/), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use and distribution, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Reviews Rockwood, Kenneth Bergman, Howard FRAILTY: A Report from the 3(rd) Joint Workshop of IAGG/WHO/SFGG, Athens, January 2012 |
title | FRAILTY: A Report from the 3(rd) Joint Workshop of IAGG/WHO/SFGG, Athens, January 2012 |
title_full | FRAILTY: A Report from the 3(rd) Joint Workshop of IAGG/WHO/SFGG, Athens, January 2012 |
title_fullStr | FRAILTY: A Report from the 3(rd) Joint Workshop of IAGG/WHO/SFGG, Athens, January 2012 |
title_full_unstemmed | FRAILTY: A Report from the 3(rd) Joint Workshop of IAGG/WHO/SFGG, Athens, January 2012 |
title_short | FRAILTY: A Report from the 3(rd) Joint Workshop of IAGG/WHO/SFGG, Athens, January 2012 |
title_sort | frailty: a report from the 3(rd) joint workshop of iagg/who/sfgg, athens, january 2012 |
topic | Reviews |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3516241/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23259017 http://dx.doi.org/10.5770/cgj.15.35 |
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