Wealth disparity and frailty among community-dwelling older adults in India.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Due to the vast socioeconomic diversity among its residents, studying health inequality in India is of particular interest. This study aimed to investigate the wealth-based inequalities in physical frailty and to quantify the contributions of potential predictors of frailty to this inequality.

Methods

Data were drawn from the first wave of the Longitudinal Ageing Study in India (LASI) conducted during 2017-18. Logistic regression analysis was used to examine the association between wealth status and frailty. We used the concentration index to measure the magnitude of wealth-related inequality in frailty. A decomposition analysis based on the logit model was used to assess the contribution of each predictor to the total inequality.

Results

The prevalence of

SUBMITTER: Saravanakumar P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9675126 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature