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

Adverse socioeconomic circumstances such as low education, lower wealth and caste status that are associated with increased prevalence of physical frailty raise urgent questions both for public health practitioners and clinicians. The current findings may help to adapt public policies focusing on screening physical frailty in the clinical settings, especially among vulnerable populations as a marker of a possibly reversible vulnerability to adverse outcomes in old age.