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Trajectories of physical and mental functioning over 25 years before onset of frailty: results from the Whitehall II cohort study

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Research on frailty, a major contributor to heterogeneity in health, is undertaken on older adults although the processes leading to frailty are likely to begin earlier in the life course.… Click to show full abstract

Research on frailty, a major contributor to heterogeneity in health, is undertaken on older adults although the processes leading to frailty are likely to begin earlier in the life course. Using repeat data spanning 25 years, we examined changes in physical and mental functioning before the onset of frailty, defined using Fried's frailty phenotype (FFP).

Keywords: physical mental; trajectories physical; mental functioning; onset frailty; frailty

Journal Title: Journal of Cachexia, Sarcopenia and Muscle
Year Published: 2022

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