Physical, Mental and Social Frailty Phenotypes - Relationships with Disability, Resource Utilisation and Mortality

Objective

​In addition to the social frailty phenotype, we operationalised a mental frailty phenotype (cognition, mood and self-rated health). Among community-dwelling Singapore older adults aged 55y and above, we reported prevalence of any frailty phenotype was 65.3%, dominated by physical frailty (PF, 46.8%) and multiple domain frailty (63%); PF, MF (mental frailty) and SF (social frailty) together was present in 6.9%. Findings support the relevance and utility of each phenotype used either individually or in combination in the prediction of the above-mentioned adverse health outcomes. We are working with MOH PRED to look at the relationship of the frailty phenotypes to acute and long-term care utilisation.

Collaborators

1. NUS

2. MOH PRED