Nursing home residents: the dimension of frailty
Background: Frailty is a state of increased vulnerability with multisystem loss of physiologic reserves and decreased response to stressors, predicting adverse health outcomes. The phenotype of frailty is characterized by unintentional weight loss, self-reported exhaustion, weakness (low grip streng...
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| Language: | eng |
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2017
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10071/13077 |
| Country: | Portugal |
| Oai: | oai:repositorio.iscte-iul.pt:10071/13077 |