The frailty phenotype and the frailty index: Different instruments for different purposes

Age and Ageing

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 10-12

  Cesari, Matteo ^a,b   Gambassi, Giovanni ^c   Van Kan, Gabor Abellan ^a,b   Vellas, Bruno ^a,b  

^a TOULOUSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

^c CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Disability; Frailty; Older people; Phenotype; Screening

Indexed keywords

AWARENESS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DISABILITY; FRAILTY; FRAILTY INDEX; FRAILTY PHENOTYPE; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; GAIT; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; GERIATRIC CARE; HUMAN; MUSCLE STRENGTH; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; WALKING SPEED;

DISABILITY; FRAILTY; OLDER PEOPLE; PHENOTYPE; SCREENING;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FRAIL ELDERLY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; GERIATRICS; HUMANS; PHENOTYPE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 84890382740     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: 14682834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/aft160     Document Type: Note

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