Frailty prevalence in 42 European countries by age and gender: development of the SHARE Frailty Atlas for Europe.

ABSTRACT: Comparative frailty prevalence data across European countries is sparse due to heterogeneous measurement methods. The Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement (SHARE) initiative conducted interviews with probability sampling of non-institutionalized elderly people in several European countries. Previous frailty analyses of SHARE datasets were limited to initial SHARE countries and did not provide age- and gender-stratified frailty prevalence. Our aim was to provide age- and gender-stratified frailty prevalence estimates in all European countries, with predictions where necessary. From 29 SHARE participating countries, 311,915 individual surveys were analyzed. Frailty prevalence was estimated by country and gender in 5-year age bands using the SHARE Frailty Instrument and a frailty index. As

SUBMITTER: Pitter JG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10828249 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature