Loneliness is a prevalent and global problem for adult populations, and a number of
different studies have linked it to multiple chronic conditions, including: heart disease, lung …

Background It is a well-described clinical phenomenon that females live longer than males,
yet tend to experience greater levels of co-morbidity and disability. Females can therefore be …

Social 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 …

Aims frailty is proposed as a summative measure of health status and marker of individual
vulnerability. We aimed to investigate the discriminative capacity of a frailty index (FI) …

Social frailty domains may play an important role in preventing physical decline and
disability. The aim of this study is to examine the impact of social frailty as a risk factor for the …

Background Frailty has been conceptualized as a wasting disorder with weight loss as a key
component. However, obesity is associated with disability and with physiological markers …

Purpose The aim of this study was to examine the longitudinal association between
educational level and frailty prevalence in older adults and to investigate the role of material …

International evidence suggests that green space has beneficial effects on general and
mental health but little is known about how lifetime exposure to green space influences …

RESULTS The first search with the MeSH term frailty retrieved 498 articles in the years 2008
and 2009; findings that corroborate a recent PubMed search highlighting that the number of …

Background Many of the symptoms, consequences, and risk factors for frailty are shared with
late‐life depression. However, thus far, few studies have addressed the conceptual and …