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Interventions to prevent disability in frail community-dwelling elderly: a systematic review

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>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.</...

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Main Authors:	van Rossum Erik (Author), Daniels Ramon (Author), de Witte Luc (Author), Kempen Gertrudis IJM (Author), van den Heuvel Wim (Author)
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Published:	BMC, 2008-12-01T00:00:00Z.
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