Frailty and its definition: A worthy challenge

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1069-1070

  Rockwood, Kenneth ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; COMORBIDITY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DISABILITY; EDITORIAL; EXHAUSTION; HUMAN; MUSCLE EXERCISE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; SOCIAL INTERACTION; WASTING SYNDROME; WEIGHT REDUCTION; AGED; CLASSIFICATION; FRAIL ELDERLY; GERIATRICS; METHODOLOGY; NOMENCLATURE; NOTE; OBESITY; STANDARD;

AGED; FRAIL ELDERLY; GERIATRICS; HUMANS; OBESITY; TERMINOLOGY; WASTING SYNDROME;

EID: 23444440343     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2005.53312.x     Document Type: Editorial

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