Association between Age-Friendliness of Communities and Frailty among Older Adults: A Multilevel Analysis.

ABSTRACT: An age-friendly environment is one of the measures of healthy aging. However, there is scarce evidence of the relationship between the age-friendliness of communities (AFC) and frailty status among Chinese older adults. This study aims to examine this relationship using a multilevel analysis with the data of a cross-sectional study conducted among 10,958 older adults living in 43 communities in four cities in China. The validated Age-friendly Community Evaluation Scale and Chinese frailty screening-10 Scale (CFS-10) were used to measure AFC and Frailty. Multilevel regression analyses were performed to examine the relationship between the AFC in two assessments of individual- and community-level and frailty status. After controlling for individual-level socio-demographic, health status, and

SUBMITTER: Xu J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9224492 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature