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Frailty: a tale of two concepts.

BMC medicine - 11 Aug 2015

Walston Jeremy D, Bandeen-Roche Karen

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Frailty is increasingly relevant for clinicians to improve care for vulnerable older adults. Prominent frailty measures include the frailty phenotype and the frailty index. The frailty phenotype is grounded in a theoretical construct hypothesized to have an underlying biological basis. The frailty index describes frailty as a nonspecific age-associated vulnerability, reflected in an accumulation of medical,...

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PMID: 26265077
DOI: 10.1186/s12916-015-0420-6
PMCID: PMC4531437

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