Frailty: Dominos or deliberation?

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 122, Issue 1299, 2009, Pages 42-52

  Heppenstall, Claire P ^a   Wilkinson, Tim J ^a   Hanger, H Carl ^b   Keeling, Sally ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL MARKER;

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; DISABILITY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE MARKER; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENDOCRINOLOGY; EXERCISE; FRAIL ELDERLY; HUMAN; NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FRAIL ELDERLY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; MOBILITY LIMITATION; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MUSCULAR ATROPHY; PHENOTYPE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 68149183637     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11758716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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