A Program to Prevent Functional Decline in Physically Frail, Elderly Persons Who Live at Home

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Thomas M. Gill · Yale University

Dorothy I. Baker

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A home-based program targeting underlying impairments in physical abilities can reduce the progression of functional decline among physically frail, elderly persons who live at home.

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Frailty in Older Adults Balance, Gait, and Falls Prevention Nutrition and Health in Aging

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Published in: New England Journal of Medicine

Volume 347, Issue 14, pp. 1068-1074

DOI: 10.1056/nejmoa020423

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A Program to Prevent Functional Decline in Physically Frail, Elderly Persons Who Live at Home

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