Association between frailty, chronic conditions and socioeconomic status in community-dwelling older adults attending primary care: a cross-sectional study using practice-based research network data.

This study demonstrates the triple disadvantage of frailty, disease burden and socioeconomic disadvantage. Frailty care needs a health equity approach: we demonstrate the utility and feasibility of collecting patient-level data within primary care. Such data can relate social risk factors, frailty and chronic disease towards flagging patients with the greatest need and creating targeted interventions.