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Frailty: a tale of two concepts

Frailty is increasingly relevant for clinicians to improve care for vulnerable older adults. Prominent frailty measures include the frailty phenotype and the frailty index. The frailty phenotype is grounded in a theoretical construct hypothesized to have an underlying biological basis. The frailty i...

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Autores principales: Walston, Jeremy D., Bandeen-Roche, Karen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4531437/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26265077
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12916-015-0420-6