Patterns of Frailty in Older Adults: Comparing Results from Higher and Lower Income Countries Using the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) and the Study on Global AGEing and Adult Health (SAGE)

We use the method of deficit accumulation to describe prevalent and incident levels of frailty in community-dwelling older persons and compare prevalence rates in higher income countries in Europe, to prevalence rates in six lower income countries. Two multi-country data collection efforts, SHARE an...

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Autores principales: Harttgen, Kenneth, Kowal, Paul, Strulik, Holger, Chatterji, Somnath, Vollmer, Sebastian
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3812225/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24204581
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0075847

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