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Social Determinants of Frailty
Gerontology, 2005<i>Background:</i> Frailty represents a body-wide set of a linked deterioration that occurs with ageing, but is susceptible to active intervention and is reversible. The concept of frailty should include broader environmental factors. A quantitative measure of frailty, the frailty index (FI), developed for elderly Canadians and shown to be ...
J, Woo, W, Goggins, A, Sham, S C, Ho
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Social Vulnerability, Frailty and Mortality in Elderly People
PLoS ONE, 2008 Social vulnerability is related to the health of elderly people, but its measurement and relationship to frailty are controversial. The aims of the present study were to operationalize social vulnerability according to a deficit accumulation approach, to compare social vulnerability and frailty, and to study social vulnerability in relation to ...
Melissa K. Andrew +2 more
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British Journal of Community Nursing, 2019
Frailty can have multifaceted contributors, including physical, psychological, social and environmental elements. There is a lack of clarity surrounding frailty as it lacks a universal common definition, multiple factors are attributed to frailty and no definitive assessment tool is available.
Karen, Freer, Sophie Louise, Wallington
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Frailty can have multifaceted contributors, including physical, psychological, social and environmental elements. There is a lack of clarity surrounding frailty as it lacks a universal common definition, multiple factors are attributed to frailty and no definitive assessment tool is available.
Karen, Freer, Sophie Louise, Wallington
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Frailty and Social Vulnerability
2015Both intrinsic and extrinsic factors contribute to health. Intrinsic factors are familiar topics in health research and include medical conditions, medications, genetics and frailty, while extrinsic factors stem from social and physical environments. This chapter builds on others in this volume, in which a deficit accumulation approach to frailty has ...
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Frailty and Organization of Health and Social Care
2015In this chapter, we consider how health and social care can best be organized for older people with frailty. We will consider the merits of routine frailty identification, including risk stratification methods, to inform the provision of evidence-based treatment and holistic, goal-oriented care. We will also consider how best to place older people with
Andrew, Clegg, John, Young
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HOW TO INCLUDE THE SOCIAL FACTOR FOR DETERMINING FRAILTY?
Journal of Frailty & Aging, 2012Traditionally, frailty has been understood as a biological syndrome associated with bad health-related outcomes. However, nowadays there are no universally accepted diagnostic criteria for this syndrome, much less studies approaching it from a non-biological framework.
L M, Gutiérrez-Robledo +1 more
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Association of Social Relationships and Genetic Risk With Frailty
The American Journal of Geriatric PsychiatryTo investigate the association between social relationships and their changes with frailty among older adults, and whether genetic risk modifies these associations.This study included 11,559 older adults (mean age 80.1 years) from the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey.
Wei-Qi, Song +13 more
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Social frailty in older adults
European Journal of Ageing, 2017Social frailty is a rather unexplored concept. In this paper, the concept of social frailty among older people is explored utilizing a scoping review. In the first stage, 42 studies related to social frailty of older people were compiled from scientific databases and analyzed.
Bunt, S. +4 more
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Regional Inequalities in Oral Frailty and Social Capital
JDR Clinical & Translational ResearchIntroduction: Oral frailty leads to poor nutritional status, which, in turn, leads to frailty. This cross-sectional study aimed to determine regional differences in the prevalence of oral frailty and to identify factors associated with oral frailty using 3-level multilevel models.
T. Yamamoto +8 more
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Canadian Journal of Emergency Medicine
This study aimed to assess the prevalence and factors of physical, psychological, and social frailty among older adults in the emergency department, comparing these data with community population to understand emergency setting manifestations.Conducted at the Emergency Department of National Taiwan University BioMedical Park Hospital, this prospective ...
Yu-Chieh Tsai +3 more
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This study aimed to assess the prevalence and factors of physical, psychological, and social frailty among older adults in the emergency department, comparing these data with community population to understand emergency setting manifestations.Conducted at the Emergency Department of National Taiwan University BioMedical Park Hospital, this prospective ...
Yu-Chieh Tsai +3 more
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