Successful aging and frailty: Mutually exclusive paradigms or two ends of a shared continuum?

Canadian Geriatrics Journal

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 35-36

  Cosco, Theodore D ^a   Armstrong, Joshua J ^b   Stephan, Blossom C M ^c   Brayne, Carol ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conceptualization; Frailty; Models of aging; Successful aging

Indexed keywords

EID: 84958953943     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19258348     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5770/cgj.18.131     Document Type: Review

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