U.S. National Profile of Older Adults with Cognitive Impairment Alone, Physical Frailty Alone, and Both.

ABSTRACT:

Background/objectives

To obtain national and regional estimates of prevalence of frailty with or without cognitive impairment, and cognitive impairment with or without frailty among older adults in the United States, and to identify profiles of characteristics that distinguish their joint versus separate occurrence.

Design

Cross-sectional.

Setting

Community or non-nursing home residential care settings.

Participants

A U.S. nationally representative sample of 7,497 older adults aged 65 and older from the National Health and Aging Trends Study.

Measurements

Frailty was measured by the physical frailty phenotype. Cognitive impairment was assessed by cognitive performance testing of executive function and memory or by proxy reports. Multinomial logistic regr

SUBMITTER: Ge ML 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7774869 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature