Open AccessSecular trends in frailty: a comparative study of 75-year olds born in 1911–12 and 1930
Author(s) -
Helena Hörder,
Ingmar Skoog,
Lena Johansson,
Hanna Falk,
Kerstin Frändin
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
age and ageing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.014
H-Index - 143
eISSN - 1468-2834
pISSN - 0002-0729
DOI - 10.1093/ageing/afv084
Subject(s) - medicine , secular variation , demography , gerontology , pediatrics , sociology
while there is a trend towards a compression of disability, secular trends in physiological frailty have not been investigated. The aim of this paper was to report physiological frailty in two cohorts of 75-year olds examined in 1987 and 2005.
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