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Only death and taxes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 March 2017

David Ames
David Ames*
Affiliation:
National Ageing Research Institute and University of Melbourne Academic Unit for Psychiatry of Old Age, Parkville, Victoria, Australia
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Most people who work in aged care have a fair idea of what is meant by cognitive impairment or decline, and we have some moderately robust instruments for detecting it and measuring change over time. Frailty is much more difficult to define, but like hard core pornography (Stewart, 1964), many of us “know it when we see it.”

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Commentary paper of the month
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International Psychogeriatrics , Volume 29 , Issue 4 , April 2017 , pp. 533
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Copyright © International Psychogeriatric Association 2017 

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