Scoping review of social frailty among community-dwelling older adults
Journal
Taiwan Journal of Public Health
Journal Volume
39
Journal Issue
2
Pages
112-128
Date Issued
2020
Author(s)
Fang P.-H.
Abstract
The study conducted a scoping review on empirical studies on social frailty's determinants and health-related outcomes. We collected studies from PubMed, Web of Science, PsycINFO, and Airiti Library (Chinese), and 37 studies from 2008-2019 met the inclusion criteria for this study. The study revealed the following findings: (1) The 37 studies included 10 assessments. (2) Seventeen variables, such as older age, lower education, and living alone, have a higher risk of social frailty; on the other hand, gender and residing in an urban/rural areas show inconsistent results. (3) Social frailty was positively correlated with disability, mortality, cognitive impairment, and physical frailty and negative correlated with quality of life and life satisfaction. Future studies can develop an indigenizing scale and provide evidence for the causal relationship between social frailty and adverse outcomes through longitudinal research designs. Governments can use these results for community intervention and disability prevention.
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Publisher
Chinese Public Health Association of Taiwan
Type
journal article