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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.
Grant type:
ARC Linkage Projects
Researchers:

  • Professor Julie Henry

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

  • Dr Sarah Grainger

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

  • Professor Ruth Hubbard

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

  • Professor Eric Vanman

    Professor
    School of Psychology
    Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences
    Professor
    School of Psychology
    Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences
Funded by:
Australian Research Council