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The frail older person does not exist: development of frailty profiles with latent class analysis

BACKGROUND: A fundamental issue in elderly care is targeting those older people at risk and in need of care interventions. Frailty is widely used to capture variations in health risks but there is no general consensus on the conceptualization of frailty. Indeed, there is considerable heterogeneity i...

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Autores principales: Looman, W. M., Fabbricotti, I. N., Blom, J. W., Jansen, A. P. D., Lutomski, J. E., Metzelthin, S. F., Huijsman, R.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5885355/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29618334
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-018-0776-5