Functional fitness: Maintaining or improving function for elders with chronic diseases

Family Medicine

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 472-476

  Hessert, Mary Josephine ^a   Gugliucci, Marilyn R ^a   Pierce, Heath R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ASSISTED LIVING FACILITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONFERENCE PAPER; FITNESS; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEART RATE; HUMAN; LOCOMOTION; MEASUREMENT; MUSCLE STRENGTH; OXYGEN SATURATION; SELF CONCEPT; WELLBEING;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASSISTED LIVING FACILITIES; BLOOD PRESSURE; BODY WEIGHT; CHRONIC DISEASE; COHORT STUDIES; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MAINE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCULOSKELETAL PHYSIOLOGY; OXYGEN;

EID: 22044435843     PISSN: 07423225     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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