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Background Frailty is an age-related health condition affecting an estimated 18% of older adults in Europe and past evidence has shown a relationship between socioeconomic factors and frailty. We examined population frailty trends and the association between frailty and 5-year mortality by education tertiles and income quartiles at ages 75, 85 and 95 in Swedish registry data.
Methods All Swedish residents born in 1895–1945 and in the Total Population Register from 1990 to 2020 were included. Frailty was assessed with the Hospital Frailty Risk Score (HFRS), which sums 109 weighted International Classification of Diseases (ICD codes), collected from the National Patient Register.
Results Regardless of education and income, frailty increased over time, though the association between frailty and 5-year mortality remained stable. Particularly in earlier birth cohorts, although the highest education and income levels had the highest mean HFRS scores, the lowest education and income level
Introduction: With no standard frailty tool for clinical care, research and policymaking, identifying frail older people is a challenge. Aims: This study aimed to compare two validated scales, which are the Frail Scale and Hospital Frailty Risk Score (HFRS) for their ability in identifying frailty in older Australian women and predicting hospital use. Methods: This study included older Australian women aged 75–95 years, who had unplanned overnight hospital admission as an index admission between 2001 and 2016. Data from the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health (ALSWH) were linked with administrative hospital data to calculate HFRS (using the International Statistical Classification of Diseases, Australia Modification (ICD-10-AM) diagnostic codes) and the Frail Scale (using the ALSWH self-reported survey). Results: The Frail Scale identified a higher proportion of older frail women (30.54%) compared to the HFRS (23.0%). Frail older women, classified by Frail Scale, wer