At the tipping point: Predicting severe mobility difficulty in vulnerable older women

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 56, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1417-1423

  Rivera, Josette A ^a   Fried, Linda P ^a   Weiss, Carlos O ^a   Simonsick, Eleanor M ^a,b,c  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

^c HARBOR HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Clinical assessment; Mobility difficulty

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COHORT ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; GERIATRIC DEPRESSION SCALE; HELPLESSNESS; HUMAN; KNEE PAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; SELF REPORT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; UNITED STATES; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; WALKING AID; WALKING DIFFICULTY; WALKING SPEED;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BALTIMORE; CHRONIC DISEASE; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MASS SCREENING; MENTAL STATUS SCHEDULE; MOBILITY LIMITATION; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 51249113638     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2008.01819.x     Document Type: Article

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