Socioeconomic vulnerability and frailty among community-dwelling older adults: Crosssectional findings from longitudinal aging study in India, 2017–18

The Indian population is rapidly aging with huge proportion of illiterate and socioeconomically disadvantaged people and there is a dearth of research on the relationships between factors of socioeconomic vulnerability and frailty in older people. The present study examined the cross-sectional associations between socioeconomic vulnerability and physical frailty in community-dwelling older individuals in India.