A poor social network is not associated with frailty in Mexican community-dwelling elderly adults

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 60, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2360-2362

  Kawano Soto, Carlos A ^a   García Lara, Juan M A ^a   Avila Funes, J Alberto ^a,b,c  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS MÉDICAS Y NUTRICIÓN SALVADOR ZUBIRÁN   (Mexico)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGING; COMMUNITY CARE; COMORBIDITY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ELDERLY CARE; GERIATRIC DEPRESSION SCALE; HUMAN; LETTER; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHENOTYPE; SOCIAL NETWORK; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WELLBEING;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL STATUS SCHEDULE; MEXICO; SOCIAL SUPPORT;

EID: 84870998427     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jgs.12020     Document Type: Letter

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