About the Authors

Giuseppe Colloca

giuseppe.colloca@rm.unicatt.it

Affiliation Centro Medicina dell’Invecchiamento, Università Cattolica Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy

Matteo Tosato

Affiliation Centro Medicina dell’Invecchiamento, Università Cattolica Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy

Davide L. Vetrano

Affiliation Centro Medicina dell’Invecchiamento, Università Cattolica Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy

Eva Topinkova

Affiliation Department of Geriatrics and Gerontology, 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

Daniela Fialova

Affiliation Department of Geriatrics and Gerontology, 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

Jacob Gindin

Affiliation Laboratory of Research in Geriatrics and Gerontology, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

Henriëtte G. van der Roest

Affiliation EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, Department of Nursing Home Medicine, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Francesco Landi

Affiliation Centro Medicina dell’Invecchiamento, Università Cattolica Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy

Rosa Liperoti

Affiliation Centro Medicina dell’Invecchiamento, Università Cattolica Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy

Roberto Bernabei

Affiliation Centro Medicina dell’Invecchiamento, Università Cattolica Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy

Graziano Onder

Affiliation Centro Medicina dell’Invecchiamento, Università Cattolica Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MT ET DF JG HGR FL RL RB GO. Performed the experiments: ET DF JG HGR GO. Analyzed the data: GC DLV MT RL GO. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MT ET DF JG HGR GO. Wrote the paper: GC GO. Critically revised the manuscript: ET DF JG HGR RL.