Frailty among elderly adults in a rural area of Turkey

Medical Science Monitor

Volumn 21, Issue , 2015, Pages 1232-1242

  Çakmur, Hülya ^a  

^a KAFKAS UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Frail Elderly; Geriatric Assessment; Health Status Indicators

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTHRITIS; ARTICLE; ASSESSMENT OF HUMANS; CAREGIVER BURDEN; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEPENDENT VARIABLE; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; EDUCATION; EXHAUSTION; FALLING; FEMALE; FITNESS; FRAIL ELDERLY; FRIED FRAILTY CRITERIA; GAIT; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH STATUS INDICATOR; HOME; HUMAN; INCOME; INDEPENDENT VARIABLE; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MOUTH HYGIENE; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; OBESITY; PAIN; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PHYSICAL CAPACITY; POLYPHARMACY; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; PUBLIC HEALTH; RURAL AREA; SMOKING; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STOMACH DISEASE; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); URINE INCONTINENCE; VERY ELDERLY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH; HEALTH STATUS; PSYCHOLOGY; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TURKEY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RURAL HEALTH; RURAL POPULATION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TURKEY;

EID: 84928738205     PISSN: 12341010     EISSN: 16433750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12659/MSM.893400     Document Type: Article

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