Assessment of vulnerable older adults' physical function according to the Japanese Long-Term Care Insurance (LTCI) system and Fried's criteria for frailty syndrome

Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 385-391

  Nemoto, Miyuki ^a   Yabushita, Noriko ^a   Kim, Mi Ji ^b   Matsuo, Tomoaki ^a   Seino, Satoshi ^a   Tanaka, Kiyoji ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Frailty; Fried's definition; Japanese LTCI system; Physical function; Vulnerable older adults

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; FUNCTION TEST; HUMAN; JAPAN; JAPANESE; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DEPENDENCY (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; INSURANCE, LONG-TERM CARE; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ROC CURVE;

EID: 84864944628     PISSN: 01674943     EISSN: 18726976     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.archger.2011.10.004     Document Type: Article

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