Assessment of frailty in community-dwelling older adults residents in the Lazio region (Italy): A model to plan regional community-based services

Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics

Volumn 68, Issue , 2017, Pages 1-7

  Liotta, Giuseppe ^a   O'Caoimh, Rónán ^b   Gilardi, Francesco ^a   Proietti, Maria Grazia ^c,d   Rocco, Gennaro ^c   Alvaro, Rosaria ^a   Scarcella, Paola ^a   Molloy, D William ^e   Orlando, Stefano ^f   Mancinelli, Sandro ^a   Palombi, Leonardo ^a   Stievano, Alessandro ^c   Marazzi, Maria Cristina ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^c IPASVI Centre of Excellence for Nursing Scholarship   (Italy)

^d Social Cooperative Nuova Sair   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^f Community of Sant'Egidio – DREAM program ^*  (Italy)

^g LUMSA UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Community based interventions; Community dwelling older adults; Frailty; Functional decline; Multidimensional assessment; Public health nurses

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMENTIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; GERIATRIC CARE; HUMAN; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEOPLASM; PARKINSON DISEASE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOM SAMPLE; SCORING SYSTEM; SOCIAL WELFARE; SOCIOECONOMICS; COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH SERVICE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH PLANNING; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING;

EID: 84983758374     PISSN: 01674943     EISSN: 18726976     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.archger.2016.08.004     Document Type: Article

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