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Operationalizing Frailty Using the Frailty Phenotype and Deficit Accumulation Approaches.

Interdisciplinary topics in gerontology and geriatrics - 1 Jan 2015

Theou Olga, Walston Jeremy, Rockwood Kenneth

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In both demographic and clinical studies, frailty is understood as a multidimensional state of increased vulnerability compared with the status of others of the same age. Of the many theoretical definitions of frailty, two are commonly employed: the physical frailty/phenotypic approach and the deficit accumulation approach. The purpose of this chapter is to discuss how frailty is conceptualized and...

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PMID: 26301980
DOI: 10.1159/000381164
PMCID: PMC4886227

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