Socioeconomic inequalities in frailty and frailty components among community-dwelling older citizens.

ABSTRACT:

Background

So far, it has not yet been studied whether socioeconomic status is associated with distinct frailty components and for which frailty component this association is the strongest. We aimed to examine the association between socioeconomic status and frailty and frailty components. In addition we assessed the mediating effect of the number of morbidities on the association between socioeconomic status and other frailty components.

Methods

This is a cross-sectional study of pooled data of The Older Persons and Informal Caregivers Survey Minimum DataSet in the Netherlands among community-dwelling persons aged 55 years and older (n = 26,014). Frailty was measured with a validated Frailty Index that consisted of 45 items. The Frailty Index contained six components: morbi

SUBMITTER: Franse CB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5679620 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature