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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Fairhall N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3146844 | biostudies-other | 2011
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
BMC medicine 20110706
Frailty is a common syndrome that is associated with vulnerability to poor health outcomes. Frail older people have increased risk of morbidity, institutionalization and death, resulting in burden to individuals, their families, health care services and society. Assessment and treatment of the frail individual provide many challenges to clinicians working with older people. Despite frailty being increasingly recognized in the literature, there is a paucity of direct evidence to guide interventio ...[more]