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Is there an association between ageist attitudes and frailty?

BACKGROUND: Frailty is defined as a state of vulnerability to stressors that is associated with higher morbidity, mortality and healthcare utilization in older adults. Ageism is “a process of systematic stereotyping and discrimination against people because they are old.” Explicit biases involve del...

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Autores principales: Salguero, Douglas, Ferri-Guerra, Juliana, Mohammed, Nadeem Y., Baskaran, Dhanya, Aparicio-Ugarriza, Raquel, Mintzer, Michael J., Ruiz, Jorge G.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6880500/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31771518
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-019-1357-y