Social and physical frailty act as mediators for physical and emotional quality of life in older heart failure inpatients, highlighting the importance of addressing frailty to improve patient-reported outcomes.
Age, monthly income, and marital status influenced the level of emotional QOL in older heart failure inpatients; NYHA classes, monthly income, and education level are influencing factors of physical QOL. Social frailty mediates between physical frailty and physical QOL; physical frailty mediates between social frailty and emotional QOL.
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