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Functional Aging: Integrating Functionality to a Multidimensional Assessment of Healthy Aging

Worldwide, the number of old adults will peak in the coming decades. Relying solely on the chronological age to make treatment decisions and shape general or specific societal and medical considerations may reinforce ageism and lead to flawed reasoning. Defining physiological age using biological ma...

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Autores principales: Frangos, Emilia, Graf, Christophe, Samaras, Nikolaos
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9899138/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36748046
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2023/9409918
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description Worldwide, the number of old adults will peak in the coming decades. Relying solely on the chronological age to make treatment decisions and shape general or specific societal and medical considerations may reinforce ageism and lead to flawed reasoning. Defining physiological age using biological markers is not yet reliable, and an approach based on comorbidities without considering their impact on quality of life is inadequate. A multidimensional approach with strong integration of functionality is presented here to draw a real-world aging approach, easily accessible, clinically relevant, and of societal value.
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spelling pubmed-98991382023-02-05 Functional Aging: Integrating Functionality to a Multidimensional Assessment of Healthy Aging Frangos, Emilia Graf, Christophe Samaras, Nikolaos Curr Gerontol Geriatr Res Review Article Worldwide, the number of old adults will peak in the coming decades. Relying solely on the chronological age to make treatment decisions and shape general or specific societal and medical considerations may reinforce ageism and lead to flawed reasoning. Defining physiological age using biological markers is not yet reliable, and an approach based on comorbidities without considering their impact on quality of life is inadequate. A multidimensional approach with strong integration of functionality is presented here to draw a real-world aging approach, easily accessible, clinically relevant, and of societal value. Hindawi 2023-01-28 /pmc/articles/PMC9899138/ /pubmed/36748046 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2023/9409918 Text en Copyright © 2023 Emilia Frangos et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Functional Aging: Integrating Functionality to a Multidimensional Assessment of Healthy Aging
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9899138/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36748046
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2023/9409918
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