As the population ages, the incidence of frailty in community-dwelling older adults with osteoporosis increases. This article reviews the content, advantages and disadvantages of frailty assessment tools, and influencing factors for frail older with osteoporosis in community, with the aim to provide a reference for early identification of frailty in older adults in the community and intervention methods.

Shajie Hou, Xiaolan Guo. Research Progress on Frailty in Elderly People with Osteoporosis in the Community. International Journal of Frontiers in Medicine (2023), Vol. 5, Issue 6: 12-17. https://doi.org/10.25236/IJFM.2023.050603.

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