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BACKGROUND: Frailty is considered highly prevalent in old age and to confer high risk for falls, disability, hospitalization, and mortality. Frailty has been considered synonymous with disability, comorbidity, and other ...

Materias / palabras clave: Stressor; Vulnerability (computing); Gerontology; Medicine; Epidemiology; Population ageing; Health care; Population; Environmental health; Psychiatry; Computer science; Economics

BACKGROUND: There is no single generally accepted clinical definition of frailty. Previously developed tools to assess frailty that have been shown to be predictive of death or need for entry into an institutional facili...

Materias / palabras clave: sarcopenia, falls, frailty, metabolic bone disease; Medicine: Other systems of medicine: Osteopathy

Materias / palabras clave: physical frailty, aging, age-related body composition modifications, geriatrics and gerontology, physiology, gerosciences; Medicine: Internal medicine: Special situations and conditions: Geriatrics; Medicine: Public aspe...

BACKGROUND: Most older adults prefer to age in place, and supporting older adults to remain in their own homes and communities is also favored by policy makers. Technology can play a role in staying independent, active a...

The European Working Group on Sarcopenia in Older People (EWGSOP) developed a practical clinical definition and consensus diagnostic criteria for age-related sarcopenia. EWGSOP included representatives from four particip...

Materias / palabras clave: geriatrics, aging, gerontology, frailty, elderly; Medicine: Internal medicine: Special situations and conditions: Geriatrics