Frailty among older adults in Germany: regional variation across NAKO study centers
Maximilian König, Stefan Rach, Rafael Mikolajczyk, Ben Schöttker, Ute Mons, Manuel Amthor, Henry Völzke, Claudia Meinke-Franze, Volker Harth, Nadia Obi, Matthias B. Schulze, Barbara Thorand, Karin Halina Greiser, Michael Leitzmann, Anne Herrmann, Wolfgang Lieb, Jasmin Kiekert, Thomas Keil, Lilian Kr · 2026
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Maximilian Konig and colleagues measure in 2026 how frailty varies across Germany in a national health cohort. Baseline data from 2014 to 2019 covered nearly forty thousand people aged sixty-one to seventy-five at eighteen study centers. A forty-item frailty index scored each person, with a set cutoff marking full frailty.
About eight percent met the frailty cutoff, while a third more sat in the prefrail range. Rates spread nearly twofold between centers, highest in several western and capital sites and lowest in the north and southwest. Older age, lower social standing, and weaker social networks each raised frailty odds on their own. Uneven local healthcare access or environments may explain the leftover regional gap.
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| CREATOR | Maximilian König, Stefan Rach, Rafael Mikolajczyk, Ben Schöttker, Ute Mons, Manuel Amthor, Henry Völzke, Claudia Meinke-Franze, Volker Harth, Nadia Obi, Matthias B. Schulze, Barbara Thorand, Karin Halina Greiser, Michael Leitzmann, Anne Herrmann, Wolfgang Lieb, Jasmin Kiekert, Thomas Keil, Lilian Kr |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 48 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |