A Frailty Instrument for primary care for those aged 75 years or more: findings from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe, a longitudinal population-based cohort study (SHARE-FI75+).

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To create and validate a frailty assessment tool for community-dwelling adults aged ≥75 years.

Design

Longitudinal, population-based study.

Setting

The Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE).

Participants

4001 women and 3057 men aged ≥75 years from the second wave of SHARE. 3325 women and 2587 men had complete information for the frailty indicators: fatigue, low appetite, weakness, observed gait (walking without help, walking with help, chairbound/bedbound, unobserved) and low physical activity.

Main outcome measures

The internal validity of the frailty indicators was tested with latent class analysis, by modelling an underlying variable with three ordered categories. The predictive validity of the frailty classification was

SUBMITTER: Romero-Ortuno R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4275665 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature