Frailty, disability, and mortality in a rural community-dwelling elderly cohort from Northern India

• Main Authors: Rama Shankar Rath (Author), Rakesh Kumar (Author), Ritvik Amarchand (Author), Giridara P Gopal (Author), Debjani Ram Purakayastha (Author), Reshmi Chhokar (Author), Venkatesh V Narayan (Author), A B Dey (Author), Anand Krishnan (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2021-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Introduction: With increasing proportion of the elderly in the world, detecting and preventing frailty assumes importance to improve the quality of life and health. The study aimed to estimate the prevalence of frailty, disability and its determinants and their relation with mortality among communit...