Now that we have a definition for physical frailty, what shape should frailty medicine take?

Age and Ageing

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 8-9

  Gordon, Adam L ^a,b   Masud, Tahir ^a,b   Gladman, John R F ^b  

^a QUEEN S MEDICAL CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROBIC EXERCISE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPREHENSIVE GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; COOPERATION; EARLY INTERVENTION; EDITORIAL; ELDERLY CARE; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; FRAIL ELDERLY; GERIATRICS; HEALTH CARE PRACTICE; HUMAN; INTERDISCIPLINARY COMMUNICATION; MASS SCREENING; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NOMENCLATURE; PHYSICAL DISEASE; PHYSICAL FRAILTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLICATION; RESISTANCE TRAINING; SYNDROME;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; CONSENSUS; FRAIL ELDERLY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; GERIATRICS; HUMANS; PHENOTYPE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 84890382008     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: 14682834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/aft161     Document Type: Editorial

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