Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
10th International Congress of the European Union Geriatric Medicine Society, Rotterdam, Hollanda, 17 - 19 Eylül 2014, ss.126-127
Introduction: Frailty is a common geriatric syndrome that embodies an elevated risk of catastrophic declines in health and function among older adults. ‘FRAIL’ criteria which studied by Morley at all in 2013, is recommended to assess frailty instead of old scales because of the simple nature of it. We aimed to show the frequency of frailty in patients older than 75 years of age by using the ‘FRAIL’ criteria.
Methods: We performed the 5-item FRAIL scale on 203 elders older than age 75. Patients who had 1 or 2 of frailty symptoms called as ‘pre-frail’, more than 3 of frailty symptoms called as ‘frail’ as shown in Table 1.
Results: Females were 136 (67%) and males were 67 (33%) of 203 patients. Table 1 shows the frequency and characteristics of subgroups of frailty in the study group. 96 elders (47.3%) were normal, 31 (15.3%) were frail and 76 (37.4%) were prefrail. Women were significantly more frail than men (p < 0.05). Regarding 5-items, we detected only two significant differences in sex groups which were fatigue and having problem with walking 200 metres and both of these items were impaired in female group (p < 0.05).
Conclusion: We observed that half of patients were either pre-frail or frail. We have known that both conditions increase morbidity and mortality in elders. This higher prevalence of frailty signs the importance of screening and assessment of frailty in elders routinely.