Interventions that have potential to help older adults living with social frailty: a systematic scoping review

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2024年6月15日

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Monika Kastner,
Isabella Herrington,
Julie Makarski,
Krystle Amog,
Tejia Bain,
Vianca Evangelista,
Leigh Hayden,
Alexa Gruber,
Justin Sutherland,
Amy Sirkin,
Laure Perrier,
Ian D. Graham,
Michelle Greiver,
Joan Honsberger,
Mary Hynes,
Charlie Macfarlane,
Leela Prasaud,
Barbara Sklar,
Margo Twohig,
Barbara Liu,
Sarah Munce,
Sharon Marr,
Braden O’Neill,
Alexandra Papaioannou,
Bianca Seaton,
Sharon E. Straus,
Katie Dainty,
Jayna Holroyd-Leduc

摘要

Background

The impact of social frailty on older adults is profound including mortality risk, functional decline, falls, and disability. However, effective strategies that respond to the needs of socially frail older adults are lacking and few studies have unpacked how social determinants operate or how interventions can be adapted during periods requiring social distancing and isolation such as the COVID-19 pandemic. To address these gaps, we conducted a scoping review using JBI methodology to identify interventions that have the best potential to help socially frail older adults (age ≥65 years).

Methods

We searched MEDLINE, CINAHL (EPSCO), EMBASE and COVID-19 databases and the grey literature. Eligibility criteria were developed using the PICOS framework. Our results were summarized descriptively according to study, patient, intervention and outcome characteristics. Data synthesis involved charting and categorizing identified interventions using a social frailty framework.

Results

Of 263 included studies, we identified 495 interventions involving ~124,498 older adults who were mostly female. The largest proportion of older adults (40.5%) had a mean age range of 70-79 years. The 495 interventions were spread across four social frailty domains: social resource (40%), self-management (32%), social behavioural activity (28%), and general resource (0.4%). Of these, 189 interventions were effective for improving loneliness, social and health and wellbeing outcomes across psychological self-management, self-management education, leisure activity, physical activity, Information Communication Technology and socially assistive robot interventions. Sixty-three interventions were identified as feasible to be adapted during infectious disease outbreaks (e.g., COVID-19, flu) to help socially frail older adults.

Conclusions

Our scoping review identified promising interventions with the best potential to help older adults living with social frailty.