A roadmap of aging in Russia: The prevalence of frailty in community-dwelling older adults in the St. Petersburg District-The "crystal" study

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 980-988

  Gurina, Natalia A ^a,d   Frolova, Elena V ^a   Degryse, Jan M ^b,c  

^a NORTH WESTERN STATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY NAMED AFTER I I MECHNIKOV   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^d Department of Family Medicine MAPS ^*  (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

comprehensive geriatric assessment; depression; frailty; Russia

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMMUNITY LIVING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; GERIATRIC DEPRESSION SCALE; GRIP STRENGTH; HEALTH STATUS; HEARING DISORDER; HUMAN; KIDNEY FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MEDICAL HISTORY; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; PREVALENCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SPIROMETRY; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BODY MASS INDEX; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; NUTRITION ASSESSMENT; RUSSIA; SEX FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 79958846263     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2011.03448.x     Document Type: Article

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