Frailty and resilience from physics to medicine

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 74, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1090-

  Conti, Andrea A ^a,b   Conti, Antonio ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b Centro Italiano per la Medicina Basata sulle Prove   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; BODY MOVEMENT; COPING BEHAVIOR; FRAIL ELDERLY; GERIATRICS; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; LETTER; LIFE EVENT; LIFE STRESS; MEDLINE; NOMENCLATURE; REFERENCE DATABASE;

AGED; AGING; FRAIL ELDERLY; HUMANS; PHYSICS; RESILIENCE, PSYCHOLOGICAL; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 77951620736     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2010.01.030     Document Type: Letter

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