ArticleThe journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences2022
Social Vulnerability, Frailty, and Their Association With Mortality in Older Adults Living in Rural Tanzania.
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- The Descriptive Epidemiology of Probable Sarcopenia in Community-Dwelling Tanzanians: A Cross-Sectional Observational Study.Journal of frailty, sarcopenia and falls · 2026Article
- Comparing Two Frailty Tools for the Prediction of Mortality in Older People Admitted to Hospital in Tanzania: A Prospective Cohort Study.Health science reports · 2026Article
- Neural embedding of frailty in cognitively unimpaired aging and dementia across Latin America.Alzheimer's & dementia : the journal of the Alzheimer's Association · 2026Article
- Social frailty independently predicts 9-year mortality among community-dwelling older adults in Mexico: validation of a brief social frailty index.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Social frailty in community-dwelling older adults: a scoping review.BMC geriatrics · 2025Article
- Changes in frailty predict social vulnerability among home care clients living in the community followed for ten years.The Journal of frailty & aging · 2025Article
- Psychological capital and subjective well-being: a multi-mediator analysis among rural older adults.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- Application of a Social Vulnerability Index and Its Associations with Physical Frailty and Disability in a Cross-sectional Study of Older Kenyan Women Living with and without HIV.The Journal of frailty & aging · 2024Article
- Research status and hotspots of social frailty in older adults: a bibliometric analysis from 2003 to 2022.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2024Article
- The Association between Social Vulnerability and Frailty in Community Dwelling Older People: A Systematic Review.Geriatrics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
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Abstract
backgroundSocial vulnerability correlates with frailty and is associated with mortality and disability. However, few studies have investigated this relationship outside of high-income country settings. This study aimed to produce and analyze a culturally adapted social vulnerability index (SVI) to investigate the relationship between social vulnerability, frailty, and mortality in older adults in Tanzania.
methodsAn SVI was produced using data from a cohort study investigating frailty in older adults in Tanzania. Variables were selected based on previous SVI studies using the categories established by Andrew et al. from the Canadian Study of Health and Aging, and National Population Health Survey. The SVI distribution was examined and compared with a frailty index (FI) produced from the same sample, using mutually exclusive variables. Cox regression survival analysis was used to investigate the association between social vulnerability, frailty, and mortality.
resultsA stratified cohort of 235 individuals were included in the study at baseline, with a mean age of 75.2 (SD 11.5). Twenty-six participants died within the follow-up period, with a mean of 503 days (range: 405-568) following the initial assessment. The SVI had a median score of 0.47 (interquartile range: 0.23, range: 0.14-0.86). Social vulnerability significantly predicted mortality when adjusting for age and gender, but not when also adjusting for frailty.
conclusionsSocial vulnerability can be successfully operationalized and culturally adapted in Tanzania. Social vulnerability is associated with mortality in Tanzania, but not independently of frailty.
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