Pinho, JoanaDomingues, BrunoCoelho, Tiago2022-03-142022-03-142015-11Pinho, J., Domingues, B., & Coelho, T. (2015). Frailty – Prediction of quality of life in a two year follow-up. In R. A. Silva, P. Baylina, F. Q. Vieira, C. Barrias, M. Rubim, T. Coelho, C. Prudêncio, & Â. Jesus (Eds.), II Congresso Internacional da Saúde Gaia Porto: Livro de Resumos (1st ed., Vol. 1, pp. 156). Escola Superior de Tecnologia da Saúde do Instituto Politécnico do Porto.978-989-20-6340-9http://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/20228Frailty is a state of high vulnerability that entails a high risk of clinically significant adverse outcomes. Traditional approaches define frailty as an exclusively physical condition. More recently, frailty has been defined by Gobbens as a multidimensional state as affecting the individual, who experiences loss of one or more domains of human functioning (physical, psychological, or social). To examine how frailty (measured as a multidimensional state contributes to the prediction of life quality in a two year follow-up, in a sample of community-dwelling elderly.engconference object