Little is known about the heterogeneous clinical profile of physical frailty and its association with cognitive impairment in older . nursing home (NH) residents. Minimum Data Set at admission was used to identify older adults newly-admitted to nursing homes with life expectancy ≥6 months and length of stay ≥100 days (n = 871,801). Latent class analysis was used to identify physical frailty subgroups, using FRAIL-NH items as indicators. |