A New Concept of Health Can Improve the Definition of Frailty

Following a newly developed concept of health, this viewpoint suggests that the concept of frailty can usefully be defined as: the weakening of health, i.e. the resilience or capacity to cope, and to maintain and restore one’s integrity, equilibrium, and sense of wellbeing in three domains: physical...

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Autores principales: Boers, Maarten, Cruz Jentoft, Alfonso J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2015
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Original Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4598346/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26215399
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00223-015-0038-x
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spelling pubmed-45983462015-10-13 A New Concept of Health Can Improve the Definition of Frailty Boers, Maarten Cruz Jentoft, Alfonso J. Calcif Tissue Int Original Research Following a newly developed concept of health, this viewpoint suggests that the concept of frailty can usefully be defined as: the weakening of health, i.e. the resilience or capacity to cope, and to maintain and restore one’s integrity, equilibrium, and sense of wellbeing in three domains: physical, mental, and social. Springer US 2015-07-28 2015 /pmc/articles/PMC4598346/ /pubmed/26215399 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00223-015-0038-x Text en © The Author(s) 2015 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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