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Table 2 Association among the socio-demographic and clinical features, the communities and the frailty status

From: Integrated information for integrated care in the general practice setting in Italy: using social network analysis to go beyond the diagnosis of frailty in the elderly

Variables

Variables modalities

NF

PFSN

PFHN

FR

Not associated

Age class

75–79

Yellow

    

80–84

Yellow

    

85–89

  

Green

  

90+

 

Orange

 

Orange

 

Gender

Male

Yellow

    

Female

 

Orange

 

Orange

 

Marital status

Married

Yellow

    

Unmarried

Yellow

    

Widowed

 

Orange

 

Orange

 

Family status

Living in a family without critical issue

Yellow

    

Elderly couples, two self-sufficient elderly

Yellow

    

Taking care of non-self-sufficient subjects

Yellow

    

Living alone

 

Orange

 

Orange

 

Living in an eldercare facility

 

Orange

 

Orange

 

Clinical features

Injury and poisoning

 

Orange

 

Orange

 

Diseases of the blood

    

Blue

Diseases of the circulatory system

    

Blue

Diseases of the digestive system

    

Blue

Endocrine, nutritional, met. and imm. disorders

    

Blue

Diseases of the genitourinary system

    

Blue

Infectious and parasitic diseases

    

Blue

Mental illness

    

Blue

Diseases of the musculosk. system and conn. tissue

    

Blue

Neoplasm

    

Blue

Diseases of the nervous system and sense organs

    

Blue

Diseases of the respiratory system

    

Blue

Diseases of the skin and subcutaneous tissue

    

Blue

Symptoms, signs and ill-defined conditions

    

Blue