The assessment of frailty in community dwelling older people
Background: This thesis explores the concept of frailty, as a latent vulnerability in older people, with the aim of refining its measurement by generating a new measure of frailty - the British Frailty Index (FI). This index was developed and validated in a cohort of community-dwelling older women,...
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London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (University of London)
2010
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| Online Access: | https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.536758 |