Construct validity of the Groningen Frailty Indicator established in a large sample of home-dwelling elderly persons: evidence of stability across age and gender

LL Peters, H Boter, JGM Burgerhof, JPJ Slaets… - Experimental …, 2015 - Elsevier
Background The primary objective of the present study was to evaluate the validity of the
Groningen Frailty Indicator (GFI) in a sample of Dutch elderly persons participating in
LifeLines, a large population-based cohort study. Additional aims were to assess differences
between frail and non-frail elderly and examine which individual characteristics were
associated with frailty. Methods By December 2012, 5712 elderly persons were enrolled in
LifeLines and complied with the inclusion criteria of the present study. Mann–Whitney U or …
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