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Reducing social frailty in late adulthood (2020-2025)

Abstract

Social frailty is one of the most troubling and potentially devastating threats to healthy adult ageing, and refers broadly to low social engagement status. This project aims to test how age-related changes in the abilities that allow us to perceive, interpret and process social information drive resilience and risk for this important threat to successful ageing, and then leverage these data to create a training tool that directly targets those abilities identified as being most strongly linked to social frailty. Enhancing older adults' resilience to social frailty should generate significant and far-reaching benefits, including greater independence of ageing Australians, and reduced burden on health and welfare support infrastructure.

Experts

Professor Julie Henry

Affiliate Professor of Mater Research Institute-UQ
Mater Research Institute-UQ
Faculty of Medicine
Professor
School of Psychology
Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences
Julie Henry
Julie Henry

Dr Sarah Grainger

ARC DECRA Research Fellow
School of Psychology
Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences
Sarah Grainger
Sarah Grainger

Professor Ruth Hubbard

Masonic Chair of Geriatric Medicine
Centre for Health Services Research
Faculty of Medicine
Ruth Hubbard
Ruth Hubbard

Professor Eric Vanman

Affiliate of Centre for Research in Social Psychology (CRiSP)
Centre for Research in Social Psychology
Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences
Centre Director of Centre for Research in Social Psychology (CRiSP)
Centre for Research in Social Psychology
Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences
Professor
School of Psychology
Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences
Eric Vanman
Eric Vanman