Fitness and frailty: Opposite ends of a challenging continuum! Will the end of age discrimination make frailty assessments an imperative?

Age and Ageing

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 279-280

  Romero Ortuno, Roman ^a   O'Shea, Diarmuid ^a  

^a ST VINCENT S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AGEISM; AGING; COST CONTROL; DISABILITY; EDITORIAL; ELDERLY CARE; FITNESS; FRAIL ELDERLY; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE DISPARITY; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS; LAW SUIT; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL CARE; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGEISM; AGING; FRAIL ELDERLY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; GERIATRICS; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICAL FITNESS; VULNERABLE POPULATIONS;

EID: 84877010992     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: 14682834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afs189     Document Type: Editorial

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