SUBTYPES OF FRAILTY AND NONFRAIL HEALTH IMPROVEMENT OF DISABILITY PREVENTION PROGRAM: LATENT CLASS ANALYSIS

Abstract Frailty has become a public health priority in many advanced countries. However, the effects of national implemented intervention remained unclear. Taiwan disability prevention program nationwide targeting on people aged 65 and over 2019. We aimed to identify subtypes function outcomes programs compare different outcome between frail non-frail older adults. The current study analyzed participants’ before after program. Two years data (2019-2020) from were used for analysis. Among participants, 622 (3.8%), 13084 are (81.3%). Outcomes nine domains Kihon checklist assessed, including nutrition, depressive mood, oral function, fall risk, cognitive socialization, independent mobility knowledge. Latent Class Analysis is classes frailty Four adults identified, both them have groups multi-aspect improvement no groups. other two group social risk group, whereas had group. similar identified indicated can benefited not Further investigating characteristic may shed some light future tailored-made prevention.