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Background: Heart failure is the leading cause of hospitalization in older adults and has the highest 30-day readmission rate of all diagnoses. An estimated 30 to 60 percent of older adults lose some degree of physical function in the course of an acute hospital stay.
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- Floegel, Theresa A (Author)
- Buman, Matthew P (Thesis advisor)
- Hooker, Steven (Committee member)
- Dickinson, Jared (Committee member)
- DerAnanian, Cheryl (Committee member)
- McCarthy, Marianne (Committee member)
- Arizona State University (Publisher)
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2015
Subjects
- Health Sciences
- Heart failure
- Hospitalization
- mobility
- older adult
- Physical Activity
- Posture
- Heart failure--Patients--Hospital care.
- Heart failure
- Older people--Orientation and mobility.
- Heart failure--Patients--Health and hygiene.
- Heart failure
- Older people--Hospital care.
- Older people--Health and hygiene.
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- Partial requirement for: Ph.D., Arizona State University, 2015Note typethesis
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 99-119)Note typebibliography
- Field of study: Exercise and wellness
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by Theresa A. Floegel