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Prevalence and changes of physical frailty over older adults’ first six months of nursing home stay (n = 571,139)
| Physical frailty |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Robust | Pre-frail | Frail | ||
| (row percent) | ||||
| Prevalence at each time | ||||
| Admission | 11.0 | 25.4 | 63.6 | |
| 3 months | 17.0 | 23.5 | 59.5 | |
| 6 months | 17.5 | 21.9 | 60.5 | |
| Changes in physical frailty over time | ||||
| 3 months | ||||
| Admission | Robust | 75.9 | 17.1 | 7.0 |
| Pre-frail | 22.8 | 46.8 | 30.5 | |
| Frail | 4.7 | 15 .7 | 79 .7 | |
| 6 months | ||||
| 3 months | Robust | 75.7 | 17.2 | 7.1 |
| Pre-frail | 15.3 | 53.5 | 31.2 | |
| Frail | 1.8 | 11.0 | 87.2 | |
