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Acceptance of Disability and the Risk of Frailty(*)

BACKGROUND: The objectives are to determine if: 1) accepting disability as a part of aging is associated with frailty; and 2) accepting disability is associated with becoming frail over a five-year period. METHODS: Secondary analysis of a prospective cohort study of 1,751 community-dwelling adults a...

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Autores principales: St. John, Philip D., Montgomery, Patrick R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Canadian Geriatrics Society 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3753208/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23983825
http://dx.doi.org/10.5770/cgj.16.69