Aging, disability and frailty
Aging, disability and frailty
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Basel, Switzerland: S. Karger AG
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English
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Basel, Switzerland: S. Karger AG
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Despite multiple and often overlapping definitions of disability and frailty, both are common clinical characteristics of aged individuals though not identical. The geriatric syndrome of frailty is described as status of global impairment of physiological reserves involving multiple organ systems. The clinical correlate of frailty manifests as incr...
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Aging, disability and frailty
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TN_cdi_proquest_journals_232102414
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_journals_232102414
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ISBN
3805585284,9783805585286
ISSN
0250-6807
E-ISSN
1421-9697
DOI
10.1159/000115340
