Towards Healthy Ageing: Using the Concept of Intrinsic Capacity in Frailty Prevention.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To examine whether intrinsic capacity (IC) could predict frailty, whether declines in specific domains of IC could lead to frailty, and whether different combinations of domains could represent different risks of developing frailty.

Setting

Community.

Participants

Chinese people aged 65 years and older.

Measurements

Using data from a prospective cohort study, we derived a summary score for IC and scores for the five domains (cognitive, locomotor, vitality, sensory, psychological) for each participant at baseline. Frailty was assessed according to the Fried's frailty phenotype at baseline, 2- and 4-year follow-ups. Participants were classified as frail if they had ≥3 of the following criteria: weight loss, self-rated exhaustion, weakness, slow walking

SUBMITTER: Yu R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12275532 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature