Most Viewed Abstracts
1. AHA Guidelines on Cardiac CT for Assessing Coronary Artery Disease 2. Omega-3 fatty acids for bipolar disorder 3. Is folic acid good for everyone 4. ACS Releases Guidelines for HPV Vaccination 5. Vitamin D - A review Free full text
Your Article Summary
Review of Tools and Technologies to Assess Multi-System Functional Impairment and Frailty
Clinical Medicine: Geriatrics, 07/02/09
Karnik K et al. - This article aims to take an holistic approach by reviewing current and emerging tools and technologies available to assess multi-system functional impairment in older adults. Several widely-used indices of frailty, tests of physical function, and questionnaires to assess quality of daily life, nutritional status and mental and emotional functioning in older adults will be discussed in brief. Finally one emerging technology, accelerometry, which may enable the early diagnosis of loss of functional capacity as well as provide the ability to objectively quantify the degree of deficit in both clinical and non-clinical environments, will be described.
Today in Geriatrics...keeping you current
Receive free subspecialty "5-minute updates" via email
Extremes of Endogenous Testosterone Are Associated with Increased Risk of Incident Coronary Events in Older Women
Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, 11/25/09
Smoking Predicts Incident Fractures in Elderly Men: Mr OS Sweden
Journal of Bone and Mineral Research, 11/25/09
Racial and Ethnic Differences in the Mental Health Needs and Access to Care of Older Adults in California
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 11/25/09
Sponsor
Article Search
Sponsor
Sponsor


See Latest Articles


