Abstract
To determine the correlation between frailty and quality of sleep in institutionalized elderly people living in self-paying care homes. This was a cross-sectional study of 158 institutionalized elderly tenants in a self-paying care home in northern Taiwan. The research tools include Chinese version of Edmonton Frail Scale, and Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index. Results showed 48.7% of Frailty syndrome, and 40% of poor sleep qualities. We found highly significant correlation (p<0.001) between the scores of ADL, IADL, IPAQ, MMSE, GDS-15 and the scores of EFS, and highly significant correlation (p<0.001) between the scores of ADL, IPAQ, GDS-15 and the scores of PSQI. The degree of frailty and sleep quality were shown to be highly correlated (r = 0.282, p <.001). The significant predictors of sleep quality were identifies as depression,activities of daily living, self-perceived visual function status, and sorce of income.