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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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Autores principales: Santos-Eggimann, Brigitte, Sirven, Nicolas
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/PMC5810062/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29450049
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40985-016-0021-8