Perspectives on Diabetes Care in Old Age: A Focus on Frailty

Diabetes in Old Age: Third Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 183-194

  Zeyfang, Andrej ^a   Walston, Jeremy D ^b  

^a Bethesda Hospital   (Germany)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Approaches for improving care for frail, older; Biology of late life diabetes; Diabetes care in old age focus on frailty; Drug therapy in the frail elderly; Frailty and diabetes in late life; Frailty syndrome and its biology; Geriatric syndromes and diabetes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889383195     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470744093.ch13     Document Type: Chapter

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