Objectives Accumulating evidence shows depression as a risk factor for frailty, but studies
are mainly population-based and widely differ in their assessment of either depression or …

Objectives This study aimed to investigate whether frailty could be an explanatory factor of
the association between depression and the number of geriatric syndromes. Methods Cross …

Objectives: To investigate if depression risk modifies the association between frailty and
mortality in older adults. Design: Ongoing cohort study. Setting: Albacete city …

Background Frailty and depressive symptoms are common issues facing older adults and
may be associated. Objectives To determine if:(i) depressive symptoms are associated with …

Introduction Depressive disorder has been conceptualised as a condition of accelerated
biological ageing. We operationalised a frailty index (FI) as marker for biological ageing …

Background Depression and frailty are closely related, but the mechanisms by which
depressed older adults are at an increased risk of becoming frail are still not well …

Objective Frailty and pre‐frailty are two common conditions in the older people, but whether
these conditions could predict depression is still limited to a few longitudinal studies. In this …

Objective: Frailty is a clinical phenotype that predicts negative health outcomes, including
mortality, and is increasingly used for risk stratification in geriatric medicine. Similar to frailty …

Objectives We analyzed the association between individual frailty-related factors and
depression in older adults. Methods A total of 796 older adults who underwent geriatric …

Background Depression and frailty both predict disability and morbidity in later life. However,
it is unclear to what extent these common geriatric syndromes represent overlapping …