Indoor Mobility, Frailty, and Disability in Community-Dwelling Older Adults: A Mediation Model.

ABSTRACT: The general population, but especially older adults, were forced or encouraged to stay home during the recent COVID-19 pandemic. In this context, indoor mobility (IM, the number of steps performed daily at home) may be informative about the general health status of older adults. The present study aimed at evaluating the relationship between IM, frailty (loss of functional reserve including both physical and psychosocial domains), and disability (loss of autonomy measured as activities of daily life, ADLs) in a sample of community-dwelling Italian older adults. Specifically, the primary objective was to investigate IM and disability differences between robust and frail older adults. The secondary objective was to test if frailty is in the causal sequence between IM and disability, i.e., as

SUBMITTER: Brustio PR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9517026 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature