A reliable measure of frailty for a community dwelling older population

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Frailty remains an elusive concept despite many efforts to define and measure it. The difficulty in translating the clinical profile of frail elderly people into a quantifiable assessment tool is due to the complex and heterogeneous...

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Main Authors: Fletcher Astrid, Ploubidis George B, Kamaruzzaman Shahrul, Ebrahim Shah
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2010-10-01
Series:Health and Quality of Life Outcomes
Online Access:http://www.hqlo.com/content/8/1/123