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Sleep quality and duration and frailty in older adults: a systematic review.
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- Poor sleep quality is associated with increased mortality in community-dwelling older adults: a retrospective single-center study.Irish journal of medical science · 2026Article
- Frailty and associated factors in women aged 65 years and older with breast cancer: a cross-sectional study.BMC geriatrics · 2026Article
- Oral Frailty and Physical Frailty Associated With Sleep Quality in Community-Dwelling Adults: A Cross-Sectional Study.Journal of oral rehabilitation · 2026Article
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- Associations Between Life Satisfaction and Sleep Quality Among Older Adults in China: Mediating Roles of Psychological Resilience and Anxiety and a Moderating Role of Chronic Disease.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Sleep Quality and the Influencing Factors in Older Adults Aged 65 Years and Above - 6 PLADs, China, 2025.China CDC weekly · 2026Article
- Exploring the relationship between sleep quality, anxiety, depression and frailty in older adults with stroke: a latent profile and mediation analysis.BMC geriatrics · 2025Article
- Prevalence of intrinsic capacity impairment and associated factors among retired older people in Cameroon.BMC geriatrics · 2025Article
- Risk factors for and a prediction nomogram of physical frailty in older patients hospitalized with acute calculous cholecystitis.Global health & medicine · 2025Article
- Network relationships among depressive symptoms, sleep quality, and frailty in Chinese older adults: an undirected and bayesian network analysis.BMC geriatrics · 2025Article
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- Cross-lagged analysis of burnout and insomnia in older adult patients with diabetes mellitus complicated by hypertension: a 1-year longitudinal follow-up study.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
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Abstract
Introduction: Sleep problems and frailty are associated with adverse health outcomes in older adults, including mortality, and constitute a major public health challenge. Objective: This study investigated the association between sleep quality and duration and frailty in older adults, with emphasis on methods of evaluation. Methods: This systematic review was guided by the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and MetaAnalyses (PRISMA). The Embase, Medline (Pubmed) and Cochrane libraries were searched, with no time restrictions for publications. Results and discussion: Of the 17 studies included in this review, all published between 2009 and 2024, 13 were cross-sectional and only four were longitudinal. The Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index and the Fried phenotype were widely used as methods to assess, respectively, sleep and frailty. Studies evaluating insomnia and frailty by the Fried phenotype all found an independent association. Poor sleep quality was independently associated with pre-frailty and frailty. Sleep onset insomnia, but not sleep maintenance insomnia, was associated with frailty. Short (5 h) and long (9 h) sleep duration were also associated with frailty. Poor sleep quality was associated with pre-frailty and frailty in older adults. The results show a wide diversity of methods for assessing both exposure (sleep quality) and outcome (frailty) and point to a need for further - especially longitudinal - research on the relationship between sleep and frailty.
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