1 Introduction

The rapid ageing of the world's population catalyses the global initiative for promoting healthy ageing. Whereas the United Nations declares the Year 2021–2030 as the Decade of Healthy Aging, the World Health Organization operationalises the goal of this global action as to optimise the functional status of older adults. To guide the strategic aged care service planning, frailty evolves as a multi-domain concept to describe the lack of functional reserve for coping with the different aspects of late-life vulnerability. Social frailty is the domain that captures the aspect relating to social functioning. Referring to the latest system review (Jia et al. 2024), social frailty affects more than one-fifth of community-dwelling older adults worldwide, but this problem has received the least attention from nurses or other healthcare professionals in geriatric and gerontological care. The aim of this editorial was to explore the scope of social frailty, focusing on its role in shaping the health of older adults and the challenges of addressing social frailty. The editorial concludes by discussing the nurses' role in managing social frailty.

中文翻译：

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护士在推动健康老龄化解决社会弱点的角色

 1 引言

世界人口的快速老龄化促进了促进健康老龄化的全球倡议。联合国宣布 2021-2030 年为健康老龄化十年，而世界卫生组织将这一全球行动的目标付诸实施，以优化老年人的功能状况。为了指导战略性的老年护理服务规划，虚弱演变为一个多领域概念，以描述缺乏应对晚年脆弱性不同方面的功能储备。社会脆弱性是捕捉与社会功能相关的方面的领域。参考最新的系统审查（Jia 等人，2024 年），社会衰弱影响了全球超过五分之一的社区老年人，但这个问题受到老年病学和老年学护理领域的护士或其他医疗保健专业人员的关注最少。这篇社论的目的是探讨社会脆弱性的范围，重点关注它在塑造老年人健康方面的作用以及解决社会脆弱性的挑战。社论最后讨论了护士在管理社会脆弱性中的作用。