Disability as a public health outcome in the aging population

Annual Review of Public Health

Volumn 17, Issue , 1996, Pages 25-46

  Guralnik, Jack M ^a   Fried, Linda P ^b   Salive, Marcel E ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

aging; disability; frailty; functional assessment; functional status

Indexed keywords

AGED; DISABILITY; ELDERLY CARE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; LIFE EXPECTANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVIEW;

EID: 0030003751     PISSN: 01637525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.pu.17.050196.000325     Document Type: Review

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