Interventions to prevent disability in frail community-dwelling elderly: a systematic review
Open Access
- 30 December 2008
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Nature in BMC Health Services Research
- Vol. 8 (1), 278
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-8-278
Abstract
There is an interest for intervention studies aiming at the prevention of disability in community-dwelling physically frail older persons, though an overview on their content, methodological quality and effectiveness is lacking.Keywords
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