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Social factors and quality of life aspects on frailty syndrome in community-dwelling older adults: the VERISAÚDE study

BACKGROUND: Frailty is a multidimensional clinical geriatric syndrome that may be reversed in its early stages. Most studies have paid attention to its physical or phenotypic boundaries, however, little is known about the social aspects surrounding this geriatric syndrome. The study examined the rel...

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Autores principales: de Labra, Carmen, Maseda, Ana, Lorenzo-López, Laura, López-López, Rocío, Buján, Ana, Rodríguez-Villamil, José L., Millán-Calenti, José Carlos
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5842614/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29514599
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-018-0757-8
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author de Labra, Carmen
Maseda, Ana
Lorenzo-López, Laura
López-López, Rocío
Buján, Ana
Rodríguez-Villamil, José L.
Millán-Calenti, José Carlos
author_facet de Labra, Carmen
Maseda, Ana
Lorenzo-López, Laura
López-López, Rocío
Buján, Ana
Rodríguez-Villamil, José L.
Millán-Calenti, José Carlos
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description BACKGROUND: Frailty is a multidimensional clinical geriatric syndrome that may be reversed in its early stages. Most studies have paid attention to its physical or phenotypic boundaries, however, little is known about the social aspects surrounding this geriatric syndrome. The study examined the relationship between socio-demographic factors, social resources, quality of life and frailty in older adults. METHODS: This cross-sectional study included a representative sample (n = 749) of adults aged ≥65 years enrolled in forty-three senior centers located in North-West Spain. Socio-demographic data, social resources by the Older Americans Resources and Services Scale, quality of life by the World Health Organization’s Quality of Life measure-brief version (WHOQOL-BREF), and frailty status diagnosed by the Frailty phenotype were measured. RESULTS: Female gender, age older than 75 years, single marital status, a poor quality of life, and low scores in the physical health domain of the WHOQOL-BREF were the main determinants of being non-robust. Together, these variables explained 24.4% of the variance. Age between 80 and 89 years, and a poor quality of life were the main determinants for non-robust men, whilst the physical health domain of the WHOQOL-BREF was the single main determinant for women. CONCLUSIONS: Our study found evidence that physical frailty is associated with social determinants and several quality of life domains. More research on this understudied topic is needed to avoid healthcare expenditures and improve the quality of life of non-robust elders.
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spelling pubmed-58426142018-03-14 Social factors and quality of life aspects on frailty syndrome in community-dwelling older adults: the VERISAÚDE study de Labra, Carmen Maseda, Ana Lorenzo-López, Laura López-López, Rocío Buján, Ana Rodríguez-Villamil, José L. Millán-Calenti, José Carlos BMC Geriatr Research Article BACKGROUND: Frailty is a multidimensional clinical geriatric syndrome that may be reversed in its early stages. Most studies have paid attention to its physical or phenotypic boundaries, however, little is known about the social aspects surrounding this geriatric syndrome. The study examined the relationship between socio-demographic factors, social resources, quality of life and frailty in older adults. METHODS: This cross-sectional study included a representative sample (n = 749) of adults aged ≥65 years enrolled in forty-three senior centers located in North-West Spain. Socio-demographic data, social resources by the Older Americans Resources and Services Scale, quality of life by the World Health Organization’s Quality of Life measure-brief version (WHOQOL-BREF), and frailty status diagnosed by the Frailty phenotype were measured. RESULTS: Female gender, age older than 75 years, single marital status, a poor quality of life, and low scores in the physical health domain of the WHOQOL-BREF were the main determinants of being non-robust. Together, these variables explained 24.4% of the variance. Age between 80 and 89 years, and a poor quality of life were the main determinants for non-robust men, whilst the physical health domain of the WHOQOL-BREF was the single main determinant for women. CONCLUSIONS: Our study found evidence that physical frailty is associated with social determinants and several quality of life domains. More research on this understudied topic is needed to avoid healthcare expenditures and improve the quality of life of non-robust elders. BioMed Central 2018-03-07 /pmc/articles/PMC5842614/ /pubmed/29514599 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-018-0757-8 Text en © The Author(s). 2018 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Maseda, Ana
Lorenzo-López, Laura
López-López, Rocío
Buján, Ana
Rodríguez-Villamil, José L.
Millán-Calenti, José Carlos
Social factors and quality of life aspects on frailty syndrome in community-dwelling older adults: the VERISAÚDE study
title Social factors and quality of life aspects on frailty syndrome in community-dwelling older adults: the VERISAÚDE study
title_full Social factors and quality of life aspects on frailty syndrome in community-dwelling older adults: the VERISAÚDE study
title_fullStr Social factors and quality of life aspects on frailty syndrome in community-dwelling older adults: the VERISAÚDE study
title_full_unstemmed Social factors and quality of life aspects on frailty syndrome in community-dwelling older adults: the VERISAÚDE study
title_short Social factors and quality of life aspects on frailty syndrome in community-dwelling older adults: the VERISAÚDE study
title_sort social factors and quality of life aspects on frailty syndrome in community-dwelling older adults: the verisaúde study
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5842614/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29514599
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-018-0757-8
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