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A Frailty Instrument for primary care: findings from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE)

Roman Romero-Ortuno*, Cathal D Walsh, Brian A Lawlor and Rose A Kenny

BMC Geriatrics 2010, 10:57 doi:10.1186/1471-2318-10-57

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Frailty in primary care: a review of its conceptualization and implications for practice

Alethea Lacas, Kenneth Rockwood BMC Medicine 2012, 10:4 (11 January 2012)

Lacas and Rockwood review the tools used to assess frailty in elderly patients in the realm of primary care, and address how these tools aide frailty recognition and management, which can impact clinical care.