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Frailty and incident depression in community‐dwelling older people: results from the ELSA study

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Frailty and pre‐frailty are two common conditions in the older people, but whether these conditions could predict depression is still limited to a few longitudinal studies. In this paper, we… Click to show full abstract

Frailty and pre‐frailty are two common conditions in the older people, but whether these conditions could predict depression is still limited to a few longitudinal studies. In this paper, we aimed to investigate whether frailty and pre‐frailty are associated with an increased risk of depression in a prospective cohort of community‐dwelling older people.

Keywords: older people; depression; dwelling older; frailty; community dwelling

Journal Title: International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry
Year Published: 2017

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