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Frailty predicts trajectories of quality of life over time among British community-dwelling older people

PURPOSE: To investigate associations between baseline frailty status and subsequent changes in QOL over time among community-dwelling older people. METHODS: Among 363 community-dwelling older people ≥65 years, frailty was measured using Frailty Index (FI) constructed from 40 deficits at baseline. QO...

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Autores principales: Kojima, Gotaro, Iliffe, Steve, Morris, Richard W., Taniguchi, Yu, Kendrick, Denise, Skelton, Dawn A., Masud, Tahir, Bowling, Ann
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer International Publishing 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4893360/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26747318
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11136-015-1213-2