Exercise in the Elderly: Research and Clinical Practice

Clinics in Geriatric Medicine

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 239-256

  Frankel, Jason E ^a,b   Bean, Jonathan F ^c,d   Frontera, Walter R ^c  

^a New England Sinai Hospital   (United States)

^b TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c and Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital Home Base Program   (United States)

^d Spaulding Hospital Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROBIC EXERCISE; AGING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISABILITY; ENDURANCE; EXERCISE; HUMAN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESCRIPTION; REVIEW; STRENGTH; TRAINING;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EXERCISE; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; PHYSICAL ENDURANCE; PHYSICAL FITNESS; PROGNOSIS; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR; RESEARCH; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 33646087891     PISSN: 07490690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cger.2005.12.002     Document Type: Review

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