Portal de Periódicos da CAPES

Global Prevalence of Physical Frailty by Fried's Criteria in Community-Dwelling Elderly With National Population-Based Surveys

2015; Elsevier BV; Volume: 16; Issue: 7 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.jamda.2015.02.004

1538-9375

Jaekyung Choi, Ah-Leum Ahn, Sun Young Kim, Chang Won Won,

Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life

This study presents a brief review of 6 articles published between 2001 and 2014 that examined the prevalence of frailty as defined by the Fried scale in community-dwelling adults representative of the national population, age 65 years and older.