Frailty and loneliness among community-dwelling older adults: examining reciprocal associations within a measurement burst design
The findings do not support the assumption that frailty and loneliness share a causal reciprocal relationship over weeks and months. Nonetheless, higher levels of frailty were weakly associated with higher levels of loneliness at the within- and considerably associated at the between-person level, which may indicate a common source of both domains.
Authors
- Wolfgang Freidl (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9525-5898)
- Hannes Mayerl (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8708-8831)
- Erwin Stolz (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7393-1568)
- Anna Schultz (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-1950-8545)
Institutions
- Medical University of Graz (AT)
Publication Details
- Journal
- BMC Geriatrics
- Published
- 2025-03-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s12877-025-05808-w
- Primary Topic
- Frailty in Older Adults
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- Austrian Science Fund