ReviewGeriatrics (Basel, Switzerland)2022
The Association between Social Vulnerability and Frailty in Community Dwelling Older People: A Systematic Review.
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- The Effects of 12-Week Dual-Task Physical-Cognitive Training on Gait, Balance, Lower Extremity Muscle Strength, and Cognition in Older Adult Women: A Randomized Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Trial
- Impact of social vulnerability on frailty transition among older adults in China: a national two-year cohort study.Journal of global health · 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
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- The association between loneliness and frailty among community-dwelling older adults in five European countries: a longitudinal study.Age and ageing · 2024Article
- Cross-cultural adaptation and psychometric evaluation of the social frailty scale in Iranian older adults.BMC geriatrics · 2024Article
- The association between neighborhood disadvantage and frailty: A retrospective case series.Journal of public health research · 2024Article
- How to construct a frailty index from an existing dataset in 10 steps.Age and ageing · 2023Article
- Differential Patterns in Motivations for Practicing Sport and Their Effects on Physical Activity Engagement across the Lifespan.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Gender Differences in Socio-Demographic Factors Associated with Pre-Frailty in Japanese Rural Community-Dwelling Older Adults: A Cross-Sectional Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Severity of frailty using modified Thai frailty index, social factors, and prediction of mortality among community-dwelling older adults in a middle-income country.Frontiers in medicine · 2022Article
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Abstract
The aim of this systematic literature review was to determine whether social vulnerability is associated with frailty in older people. Databases were searched for literature from January 2001 to March 2022. Hand searches of reference lists of the selected articles were also used to identify other relevant studies. Studies that met the inclusion criteria were selected. Two independent reviewers assessed the methodological quality using an established tool. Eleven eligible studies from Canada, Europe, USA, Tanzania, Mexico, and China were selected. The level of social vulnerability measured by the Social Vulnerability Index (SVI) from a meta-analysis was 0.300 (95% CI: 0.242, 0.358), with the highest SVI in Tanzania (0.49), while the lowest level of SVI was reported in China (0.15). The highest frailty level of 0.32 was observed in both Tanzania and Europe, with the lowest frailty reported in a USA study from Hawaii (0.15). In all studies, social vulnerability was a significant predictor of mortality for both sexes at subsequent data collection points. The association between SVI and frailty was high in Tanzania (r = 0.81), with other studies reporting stronger correlations for females compared to males, but at small to moderate levels. In one study, an increase of 1SD in SVI was linked to a 20% increase in frailty score at a subsequent evaluation. Additional study is warranted to determine a potential causality between social vulnerability and frailty.
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