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Frailty Status Typologies in Spanish Older Population: Associations with Successful Aging

Trinidad Sentandreu-mañóIrene FernándezJosé M. Tomás

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MaleGerontologyAgingFrail ElderlyHealth Toxicology and MutagenesisPopulationPsychological interventionlcsh:Medicineperceived healthArticlePerceived healthOlder populationHealthy Aging03 medical and health sciences0302 clinical medicineQuality of life (healthcare)latent class analysisHumans030212 general & internal medicine10. No inequalityGeriatric Assessmentolder adultsAgedInterpretabilityFrailtyDescriptive statisticsSuccessful aginglcsh:RPublic Health Environmental and Occupational HealthLatent class modelCross-Sectional Studiesquality of lifeFemaleIndependent Livingfrailty profilesPsychology030217 neurology & neurosurgery

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Background: Defining frailty typologies would contribute to guiding specific care interventions. These typologies could additionally be related to different health outcomes. This study aims at identifying subgroups of frail older adults based on the physical frailty phenotype and examining the relationships of these frailty profiles with quality of life and perceived health. Methods: This study relies on data from the SHARE project, namely a representative sample of 1765 Spanish-dwelling older adults identified as frail or pre-frail. Analysis included general descriptive statistics, exploratory latent class analysis (LCA) to determine the number of frailty subgroups, and LCA with covariates to examine differential relationships with markers of successful aging. Results: Statistical criteria and interpretability of the classes suggested that the LCA model with four classes should be retained. Class 1 was identified as the &ldquo

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2020-09-17International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17186772