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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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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