Successful Aging and Frailty: Mutually Exclusive Paradigms or Two Ends of a Shared Continuum?
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Successful Aging and Frailty: Mutually Exclusive Paradigms or Two Ends of a Shared Continuum?
The conceptualization of positive and negative states of aging is contentious at the inter- and intraparadigm level; lack of consensus exists within and between states. Working within their respective paradigms, successful aging and frailty researchers may have lost sight of the larger picture. Are successful aging researchers describing nonfrail individuals? Are frailty researchers describing ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Canadian Geriatrics Journal
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1925-8348
DOI: 10.5770/cgj.18.131