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The relationship between coronavirus-related anxiety on physical frailty, psychological frailty, and social frailty in older community-dwellers in Taiwan during the COVID-19 pandemic

Journal of Health Research, 2023
Background: Most activities in community centers have declined as a countermeasure against the COVID-19 pandemic. Consequently, multidimensional frailty rates gradually worsened.
I-Chun Chen, Shao-Hsi Chang
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Factors associated with physical, psychological and social frailty among community-dwelling older persons in Europe: a cross-sectional study of Urban Health Centres Europe (UHCE)

BMC Geriatrics, 2021
Background Frailty is an age-related condition resulting in a state of increased vulnerability regarding functioning across multiple systems. It is a multidimensional concept referring to physical, psychological and social domains.
Lizhen Ye, Liset E. M. Elstgeest, Xuxi Zhang, Tamara Alhambra-Borrás, Siok Swan Tan, Hein Raat   +5 more
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Identifying preventative measures against frailty, locomotive syndrome, and sarcopenia in young adults: a pilot study [PDF]

, 2021
[Purpose] The purpose of this study was to propose potential preventive measures against future mobility impairments and muscle loss in healthy young adults by comprehensively evaluating their status of frailty, locomotive syndrome, and sarcopenia ...
YASUDA, Tomohiro
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Emotion regulation mediates the relationship between social frailty and stress, anxiety, and depression

Scientific Reports, 2023
Social frailty refers to an inability to meet basic social needs and has been identified as a threat to physical and mental health. Although social frailty has been linked with many adverse health and well-being outcomes, potential mediators of the ...
Olivia P. Demichelis, Sarah A. Grainger, Ruth E. Hubbard, Julie D. Henry   +3 more
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Impact of Social Frailty in Hospitalized Elderly Patients With Heart Failure: A FRAGILE‐HF Registry Subanalysis

Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2021
Background Frailty is conceptualized as an accumulation of deficits in multiple areas and is strongly associated with the prognosis of heart failure (HF). However, the social domain of frailty is less well investigated.
Kentaro Jujo, Nobuyuki Kagiyama, Kazuya Saito, Kentaro Kamiya, Hiroshi Saito, Yuki Ogasahara, Emi Maekawa, Masaaki Konishi, Takeshi Kitai, Kentaro Iwata, Hiroshi Wada, Takatoshi Kasai, Hirofumi Nagamatsu, Tetsuya Ozawa, Katsuya Izawa, Shuhei Yamamoto, Naoki Aizawa, Ryusuke Yonezawa, Kazuhiro Oka, Hyuma Makizako, Shin‐ichi Momomura, Yuya Matsue   +21 more
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Impact of Social Frailty on Relocation of Older Adults

The Journal of Frailty & Aging, 2021
The relationship between frailty and variables such as housing are the least included in models of frailty and research on frailty or social frailty and relocation is negligible. The decision to relocate is complex and demanding for older adults with a loss of independence but little is known about what makes older adults relocate to congregated ...
S, Dupuis-Blanchard, C, Bigonnesse, M K, Andrew, O, Gould, D, Maillet   +4 more
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Do lifestyle, health and social participation mediate educational inequalities in frailty worsening? [PDF]

, 2015
BACKGROUND: Lower educated older persons are at increased risk of becoming frail as compared with higher educated older persons. To reduce educational inequalities in the development of frailty, we investigated whether lifestyle, health and social ...
Burdorf, Alex, van Lenthe, Frank J, Etman, Astrid, SGPL Stadsgeografie, Social Urban Transitions, Kamphuis, Carlijn B M, van der Cammen, Tischa J M   +6 more
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Frailty models and social frailty

World Journal of Meta-Analysis
Frailty is a geriatric syndrome characterized by a reduced ability to maintain homeostasis due to age-related declines in physiological reserves. It increases the risk of adverse health outcomes such as falls, hospitalization, disability, and mortality, especially in older adults.
Dilara Donmez Guler, Zeynep Kemik, Esra Ates Bulut   +2 more
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Prevalence of social frailty and its associated factors in the older Chinese population: a national cross-sectional study

BMC Geriatrics, 2023
Background Social frailty has not been comprehensively studied in China. Our objective is to investigate the prevalence of social frailty among the older population in China, as well as identify relevant factors and urban-rural differences.
Xin Qi, Yingying Li, Jiabin Hu, Lingbing Meng, Ping Zeng, Jing Shi, Na Jia, Xuezhai Zeng, Hui Li, Qiuxia Zhang, Juan Li, Deping Liu   +11 more
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The living environments of community-dwelling older people who become frail: another look at the living standards of older New Zealanders survey. [PDF]

, 2006
Efforts to support older people who live in the community and who become frail will be enhanced by a better appreciation of the shared characteristics of this group.
Twitchin, Stephen, Ryan, Faye, Kletchko, Sharon, Barrett, Patrick   +3 more
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