Frailty: A Review of the First Decade of Research

Biological Research for Nursing

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 422-432

  Zaslavsky, Oleg ^a   Cochrane, Barbara B ^b   Thompson, Hilaire J ^b   Woods, Nancy F ^b   Herting, Jerald R ^b   LaCroix, Andrea ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c USA   (United States)

Author keywords

aging; biological mechanism; frailty; longitudinal modeling; methodological perspectives; multilevel models; review

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; BIOLOGICAL MECHANISM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMORBIDITY; FRAIL ELDERLY; FRAILTY; GERIATRICS; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL MODELING; METHODOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES; MULTILEVEL MODELS; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; VERY ELDERLY;

AGING; BIOLOGICAL MECHANISM; FRAILTY; LONGITUDINAL MODELING; METHODOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES; MULTILEVEL MODELS; REVIEW;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; COMORBIDITY; FRAIL ELDERLY; GERIATRICS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84880922516     PISSN: 10998004     EISSN: 15524175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1099800412462866     Document Type: Review

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