ArticleQuality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation2013
Explaining quality of life of older people in the Netherlands using a multidimensional assessment of frailty.
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- Association between frailty and risk of fall among diabetic patients.Endocrine connections · 2020Article
- Longitudinal Association Between Physical Activity and Frailty Among Community-Dwelling Older Adults.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2020Article
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- Emotional Well-Being and Cognitive Function Have Robust Relationship With Physical Frailty in Institutionalized Older Women.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- Association between physical, psychological and social frailty and health-related quality of life among older people.European journal of public health · 2019Article
- The association between frailty and quality of life among rural community-dwelling older adults in Kegalle district of Sri Lanka: a cross-sectional study.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2019Article
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Abstract
purposeAlthough frailty was originally a medical concept, nowadays more and more researchers are convinced of its multidimensional nature, including a psychological and social domain of frailty as well as a physical domain. The objective of this study was to test the hypothesis that the prediction of quality of life by physical frailty components is improved by adding psychological and social frailty components.
methodsThis cross-sectional study was carried out with a sample of Dutch citizens. A total of 1,031 people aged 65 years and older completed a Web-based questionnaire containing the Tilburg Frailty Indicator for measuring physical, psychological, and social frailty, and the WHOQOL-BREF for measuring four quality of life domains (physical health, psychological, social relations, environmental).
resultsThe findings show that the prediction of all quality of life domains by eight physical components of frailty was improved after adding four psychological and three social frailty components. The psychological frailty component 'feeling down' significantly improved the prediction of all four quality of life domains, after controlling for the effects of background characteristics and all other frailty components.
conclusionThis study emphasizes the importance of a multidimensional assessment of frailty in the prediction of quality of life in older people.
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