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  "id": 2267057,
  "title": "Hong Kong's first screening tool to detect social frailty in seniors",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/21/hong-kongs-first-screening-tool-to-detect-social-frailty-in-seniors",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-08-21T00:40:04.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Medical Xpress",
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    "url": "https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-08-hong-kong-screening-tool-social.html"
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  "summary": "Loneliness and social isolation are widely recognized as harmful to older adults' health, yet frontline care workers have long lacked a simple, objective way to identify those most at risk. Researchers at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) have developed a set of community-based, preventive approaches to address social frailty among seniors, including a new screening tool and…",
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        "published": "2026-08-19T03:42:46.000Z"
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