JD Walston - Annals of internal medicine - Am Coll Physicians The differences between a 70-year- old who is robust and one who is frail are easily
detectible. Frail older patients are visibly more vulnerable, withdrawn, unsteady, and weak, and
they tend to have more complications as they age and a higher rate of hospitalization. In ... Cited by 24 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 4 versions
J Walston - Science's SAGE KE, 2004 - sageke.sciencemag.org Practitioners of geriatric medicine have long recognized the existence of a subset of older adults
who are frail. The members of this frail subset are more vulnerable to a host of poor health outcomes
than are other individuals of the same age. The biology that underlies frailty has been ... Cited by 29 - Related articles - All 3 versions
WR Hazzard - Journals of Gerontology Series A: Biological and … - Geron Soc America As concisely summarized by Professor Morley (1), as a field, geriatrics has a relatively brief but
checkered history characterized by great scope and a dizzying array of relationships with other
fields. In the early 21st century, however, we are still struggling with an ambiguous ... Cited by 4 - Related articles - All 2 versions
CC Deocaris, SC Kaul, K Taira, R … - Journals of Gerontology …, 2004 - Geron Soc America Aging is an inevitable biological phenomenon. Attempts to understand its mechanisms and,
consequently, to therapeutically decelerate or even reverse the process are limited by its daunting
complexity. Rapid and robust functional genomic tools suited to a wide array of ... Cited by 6 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 3 versions
- ►apa.org [PDF] GV Ostir, KJ Ottenbacher, KS Markides - Psychology and aging, 2004 - psycnet.apa.org The aim of this study was to examine the longitudinal association between positive affect and
onset of frailty for 1,558 initially nonfrail older Mexican Americans from the Hispanic Established
Populations for Epidemiological Studies of the Elderly database. The incidence of frailty ... Cited by 49 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 11 versions
KE Ensrud, SK Ewing, BC Taylor, HA Fink, … - Archives of Internal …, 2008 - archinte.highwire.org Methods We conducted a prospective cohort study in 6701 women 69 years or older to compare
the predictive validity of a simple frailty index with the components of weight loss, inability to rise
from a chair 5 times without using arms, and reduced energy level (Study of Osteoporotic ... Cited by 29 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 4 versions
JE Morley, HM Perry III, DK Miller - Journals of Gerontology Series A …, 2002 - Geron Soc America There is general agreement that frailty is not adequately defined as purely a decline in functional
status, although functional status is itself a predictor of poor outcomes (2) (3) (4) (5) , and Gealey
(6) found that persons perceived to be frail also showed functional impairment. Brown ... Cited by 53 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 2 versions
L Schmid, C Henzen, U Schlumpf, R … - The Journal of Applied …, 2004 - jrnlappliedresearch.com BACKGROUND Osteoporosis as a major public health problem not only leads to fracture
interventions, functional disability, and increased mortality, but also to an indi- vidual, and often
sustained, loss of qual- ity of life.1,2 Although concomitant diseases are important, ... Cited by 2 - Related articles - View as HTML - All 3 versions
