Background With the ageing population, there is a stronger focus on supporting older
people to live independently as long as possible. One of the important factors to take into …

Purpose To examine the associations between components of physical, psychological and
social frailty with quality of life among older people. Methods This cross-sectional study was …

Background: The patterns of health-and home-care utilization among Belgian frail elderly
persons living at home with varying socio-economic status are currently unknown. Methods …

Background Despite having the third highest proportion of people aged 60 years and older
in the world, Germany has been recently reported as having the lowest prevalence of frailty …

Background and aims This study assessed the association between frailty and
sociodemographic, socioeconomic and lifestyle factors in community-dwelling older people …

Introduction: Frailty syndrome, as a physiological syndrome, is characterized by a gradual
decline in physiological reserve and a lowered resistance to stress-inducing factors, leading …

Objective: To determine the main social, functional and clinical characteristics of community-
dwelling older outpatients living alone and to find correlates of frailty in this population …

Background Frailty is a multidimensional clinical geriatric syndrome that may be reversed in
its early stages. Most studies have paid attention to its physical or phenotypic boundaries …

Aim In the present study, we aimed to update the data of frailty status in the European
community‐dwelling population of older adults, based on the latest data released (wave 6) …

Background Frailty is a common problem among older people and it is associated with an
increased risk of death and long-term institutional care. Early identification of frailty is …