Multidimensional Approach to Frailty.
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SUBMITTER: Wleklik M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7115252 | biostudies-literature | 2020
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
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Multidimensional Approach to Frailty.
Wleklik Marta M Uchmanowicz Izabella I Jankowska Ewa A EA Vitale Cristiana C Lisiak Magdalena M Drozd Marcin M Pobrotyn Piotr P Tkaczyszyn Michał M Lee Christopher C
Frontiers in psychology 20200325
The concept of frailty syndrome (FS) was first described in the scientific literature three decades ago. For a very long time, we understood it as a geriatric problem, recently becoming one of the dominant concepts in cardiology. It identifies symptoms of FS in one in 10 elderly people. It is estimated that in Europe, 17% of elderly people have FS. The changes in FS resemble and often overlap with changes associated with the physiological aging process of the body. Although there are numerous sc ...[more]
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