The frail older person does not exist: development of frailty profiles with latent class analysis.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:A fundamental issue in elderly care is targeting those older people at risk and in need of care interventions. Frailty is widely used to capture variations in health risks but there is no general consensus on the conceptualization of frailty. Indeed, there is considerable heterogeneity in the group of older people characterized as frail. This research identifies frailty profiles based on the physical, psychological, social and cognitive domains of functioning and the severity of the problems within these domains. METHODS:This research was a secondary data-analysis of older persons derived from The Older Person and Informal Caregiver Minimum Dataset. Selected respondents were 60 years and older (n = 43,704; 59.6% female). The following variables were included: self-reported healt

SUBMITTER: Looman WM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5885355 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature