Implementing frailty screening, assessment, and sustained intervention: The experience of the gérontopôle

Journal of Nutrition, Health and Aging

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 673-680

  Vellas, B ^a,b  

^a TOULOUSE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

Clinical practice; Frailty; Intervention; Sarcopenia

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLADDER CATHETERIZATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DAY HOSPITAL; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; DISABILITY; DRUG INDUSTRY; FRAIL ELDERLY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; GERONTOPOLE FRAILTY SCREENING TOOL; HEALTH PROMOTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALNUTRITION; OUTPATIENT CARE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CALORIE MALNUTRITION; PUBLIC HEALTH; SCREENING; WALKING DIFFICULTY; AGED; FEMALE; FRANCE; GERIATRICS; IATROGENIC DISEASE; INDEPENDENT LIVING; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MIDDLE AGED; OUTPATIENT; PROCEDURES; SARCOPENIA; TRENDS; VERY ELDERLY;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; FRANCE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; GERIATRICS; HEALTH PROMOTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; IATROGENIC DISEASE; INDEPENDENT LIVING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTPATIENTS; SARCOPENIA;

EID: 84939418273     PISSN: 12797707     EISSN: 17604788     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12603-015-0505-0     Document Type: Article

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