Longitudinal Relationship Between Baseline Social Frailty and Cognitive Impairment in Older Adults: 14-Year Follow-Up Results From the Korean Longitudinal Study of Ageing.

These findings highlight the need for health care providers to introduce and use available social resources for older adults with social frailty to increase the relationships between individual and social context. Social inactivity and loneliness were the major domains associated with cognitive impairment, and loneliness can be resolved by participating in social activities. Therefore, health care providers especially provide opportunities for social activities, such as group-based programs in the community, to reduce social frailty and cognitive impairment.