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Addressing diverse older-age wellbeing: Understanding social frailty by developing a new culturally sensitive Index for Southeast Asian migrants in Australia

This study responds to Australia’s impending demographic, social, and economic crisis in population ageing, as more people are living longer and in poorer states of health. Frailty is the biggest predictor of older-age wellbeing, encompassing the continuous process of optimizing opportunities to maintain and improve physical and mental health, independence, and quality of life through the life course.  Although current interventions may not be suitable for migrant populations, who often face barriers not experienced by the general population, relating to language ability and migration experiences, resulting in significant health challenges, including frailty.

This project aims to enhance the understanding of diverse older-age wellbeing among CALD communities from Southeast Asia by designing and validating a social frailty index building on the index that has been developed by SAGE for the general Australian population under The FITTEST Trial: supporting older people to participate in frailty preventions (Reid et al., 2024).

This study aims to explore perceptions and factors relating to CaLD social frailty, design a CALD sensitive social frailty index for Southeast Asian migrants, validate the CALD sensitive social frailty index for Southeast Asian migrants, raise awareness of social frailty among CALD populations and inform future culturally sensitive social frailty reduction interventions.

The results from this mixed methods research will inform the design and validation of a culturally sensitive social frailty index, which can be used by researchers and clinicians in assessing social frailty among migrants when designing, evaluating, and implementing interventions to promote their health and wellbeing outcomes.

Funding agency

ECU Early-Mid Career Researcher Grant

Project duration

January 2025 – June 2026

Related projects

The FITTEST Study: Social Support and Engagement

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