Sustained attention and frailty in the older adult population

Journals of Gerontology - Series B Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 147-156

  O'Halloran, Aisling M ^a   Finucane, Ciaran ^a   Savva, George M ^a   Robertson, Ian H ^a   Kenny, Rose Anne ^a,b  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b ST JAMES S HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Frailty; Older adults; Performance; Sustained attention; Variability

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; FRAILTY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; IRELAND; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OLDER ADULTS; PERFORMANCE; PHYSIOLOGY; REACTION TIME; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; SUSTAINED ATTENTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VARIABILITY.; VERY ELDERLY;

FRAILTY; OLDER ADULTS; PERFORMANCE; SUSTAINED ATTENTION; VARIABILITY.;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ATTENTION; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; IRELAND; LOGISTIC MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REACTION TIME; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS;

EID: 84894268632     PISSN: 10795014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/geronb/gbt009     Document Type: Article

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