A mobile and ubiquitous approach for supporting frailty assessment in elderly people

Journal of Medical Internet Research

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2013, Pages

  Fontecha, Jesús ^a   Hervás, Ramon ^a   Bravo, José ^a   Navarro, Javier ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

^b Geriatric Services   (Spain)

Author keywords

Elderly people; Frailty; Mobile computing; Similarity

Indexed keywords

AGED; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; MALE; MOBILE APPLICATION; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PROCEDURES; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TELEMEDICINE; VERY ELDERLY; ARTICLE; FRAILTY; METHODOLOGY; MOBILE COMPUTING; SIMILARITY; STATISTICS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; MALE; MOBILE APPLICATIONS; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; RISK FACTORS; TELEMEDICINE;

ELDERLY PEOPLE; FRAILTY; MOBILE COMPUTING; SIMILARITY;

EID: 84887643732     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14388871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/jmir.2529     Document Type: Article

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