Informal care and cognitive frailty among Chinese older adults: the mediating role of social participation
Tianyu Gao, Dan Zhao, Shujun Chai, Xiaohan Qi, Yang Liu, Yihong Sun, Yuxun Zhang, Zihan Lin, Jie Zhou, Chengchao Zhou · 2025
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Tianyu Gao and co-authors test how family care links to cognitive frailty in older Chinese adults in a 2025 study. Cognitive frailty joins body weakness with thinking decline and is a rising public health load. How informal care from kin shapes that risk, and what sits in between, was poorly known.
Data came from a national aging study with 2066 adults aged 60 and up. Three forms of kin care, money help, emotional help, and daily life care, each tied to lower frailty odds. Joining social acts more often and in more forms carried part of the money and life care links. It did not carry the emotional help link.
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| CREATOR | Tianyu Gao, Dan Zhao, Shujun Chai, Xiaohan Qi, Yang Liu, Yihong Sun, Yuxun Zhang, Zihan Lin, Jie Zhou, Chengchao Zhou |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 36 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |