Bunt S, Steverink N, Olthof J, van der Schans C P, Hobbelen J S M
Research Group Healthy Ageing, Allied Health Care and Nursing, Hanze University of Applied Sciences, Eyssoniusplein 18, 9714 CE Groningen, The Netherlands.
Department of Sociology, Faculty of Behavioural and Social Sciences, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
Eur J Ageing. 2017 Jan 31;14(3):323-334. doi: 10.1007/s10433-017-0414-7. eCollection 2017 Sep.
Social frailty is a rather unexplored concept. In this paper, the concept of social frailty among older people is explored utilizing a scoping review. In the first stage, 42 studies related to social frailty of older people were compiled from scientific databases and analyzed. In the second stage, the findings of this literature were structured using the social needs concept of Social Production Function theory. As a result, it was concluded that social frailty can be defined as a continuum of being at risk of losing, or having lost, resources that are important for fulfilling one or more basic social needs during the life span. Moreover, the results of this scoping review indicate that not only the (threat of) absence of social resources to fulfill basic social needs should be a component of the concept of social frailty, but also the (threat of) absence of social behaviors and social activities, as well as (threat of) the absence of self-management abilities. This conception of social frailty provides opportunities for future research, and guidelines for practice and policy.
社会脆弱性是一个尚未得到充分探索的概念。在本文中，通过范围综述对老年人社会脆弱性的概念进行了探讨。在第一阶段，从科学数据库中收集并分析了42项与老年人社会脆弱性相关的研究。在第二阶段，利用社会生产功能理论的社会需求概念对这些文献的研究结果进行了梳理。结果表明，社会脆弱性可被定义为在生命周期中面临失去或已经失去对满足一项或多项基本社会需求至关重要的资源的一种连续状态。此外，这项范围综述的结果表明，社会脆弱性概念的组成部分不仅应包括缺乏满足基本社会需求的社会资源（或其威胁），还应包括缺乏社会行为和社会活动（或其威胁）以及缺乏自我管理能力（或其威胁）。这种社会脆弱性的概念为未来的研究提供了机会，并为实践和政策提供了指导方针。
