The impact of biological frailty syndrome on quality of life of nursing home residents

Increased longevity is a social success that also implicitly entails enormous challenges: adding years to life often implies the management of more geriatric syndromes and higher mortality and disability rates. Although disease and disability are not inevitable consequences of human ageing, the risk of being affected by them considerably increases with age (Baltes& Smith, 2003).

Source: Applied Nursing Research : ANR - March 28, 2017 Category: Nursing Authors: Ma Dolores Serrano, Margarita Garrido, Rosa Ma Fuentes, Ma Jos é Simón, Ma José Díaz Source Type: research