Epidemiological data from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Global Burden of Disease Study indicate an important trend: although age-standardized incidence and mortality rates of stroke have shown a moderate decline, the absolute number of stroke cases among older adults worldwide has increased markedly because of the rapid growth of the aging population ( Torres-Roman et al., 2025 ).
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The relationship between social frailty and self-care ability in elderly stroke patients: the mediating role of self-efficacy.
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