The Case for Stage-Specific Frailty Interventions Spanning Community Aging to Cognitive Impairment

Journal of the American Medical Directors Association

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 1003.e13-1003.e19

  Chong, Mei Sian ^a   Tay, Laura ^a   Ismail, Noor Hafizah ^a   Tan, Chay Hoon ^b   Yew, Suzanne ^a   Yeo, Audrey ^a   Ye, Ruijing ^a   Leung, Bernard ^a,b   Ding, Yew Yoong ^a  

^a TAN TOCK SENG HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Cognitive impairment; Frailty; Obesity; Sarcopenia

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMMUNITY CARE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PREVALENCE; SARCOPENIC OBESITY; TERTIARY CARE CENTER; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; INDEPENDENT LIVING; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; SARCOPENIA;

AGED; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; COGNITION DISORDERS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FRAIL ELDERLY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; INDEPENDENT LIVING; MIDDLE AGED; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; OBESITY; SARCOPENIA;

EID: 84947801446     PISSN: 15258610     EISSN: 15389375     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jamda.2015.08.025     Document Type: Article

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