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Care recipients’ physical frailty is independently associated with subjective burden in informal caregivers in the community setting: a cross-sectional study

BACKGROUND: Physical frailty is associated with significant morbidity and mortality in community-dwelling older adults. Burden in informal caregivers of older adults causes significant physical and psychological distress. However, the relationship between these two clinical phenomena has not been ex...

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Autores principales: Ringer, Thom J., Hazzan, Afeez Abiola, Kennedy, Courtney C., Karampatos, Sarah, Patterson, Christopher, Marr, Sharon, Misiaszek, Brian, Woo, Tricia, Ioannidis, George, Papaioannou, Alexandra
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5114771/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27855633
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-016-0355-6