Long-term prediction of changes in health status, frailty, nursing care and mortality in community-dwelling senior citizens - results from the longitudinal urban cohort ageing study (LUCAS)

BACKGROUND: The detection of incipient functional decline in elderly persons is not an easy task. Here, we propose the self-reporting Functional Ability Index (FA index) suitable to screen functional competence in senior citizens in the community setting. Its prognostic validity was investigated in...

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Autores principales: Dapp, Ulrike, Minder, Christoph E, Anders, Jennifer, Golgert, Stefan, von Renteln-Kruse, Wolfgang
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4289576/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25522653
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2318-14-141

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4289576/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25522653
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2318-14-141

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