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Screening for frailty: older populations and older individuals
The concept of frailty as a health dimension in old age is recent and has its origin in the development of geriatric medicine. Initially an unformulated clinical intuition, it is now defined by a diminished physiological reserve of multiple organs that exposes older individuals to increased vulnerab...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2016
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5810062/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29450049 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40985-016-0021-8 |