IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/dbk/rehabi/v2y2022ip17id17.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Characterization of functional capacity in the elderly

Author

Listed:
  • Daisy Mesa Trujillo
  • Claudia de la Caridad Zayas Argos
  • Ana Iris Verona Izquierdo
  • Israel García Mesa
  • Abanis López Zamora

Abstract

Introduction: the evaluation of the elderly should be multidimensional with the inclusion of the physical, mental, social and functional areas. Objective: to characterize the functional capacity of elderly people in Los Palacios clinic 4 during 2021. Methods: cross-sectional descriptive research. Population: 212 elderly adults who met the inclusion criteria. ABSTRACT measures were used for qualitative data (absolute frequency relative percentage). Results: age 60 - 64 (28,7 %), female sex (27,4 %) and consensual union were predominant. The predominant dispensary group was III (61,7 %), with prevalence of independence status for basic activities of daily living and for instrumented activities of daily living (IADLs), moderate dependence and frailty and falls as major geriatric syndromes predominated. Conclusions: Functional capacity in elderly adults was characterized by state of independence for basic activities of daily living and instrumented activities.

Suggested Citation

Handle: RePEc:dbk:rehabi:v:2:y:2022:i::p:17:id:17
DOI: 10.56294/ri202217
as

Download full text from publisher

To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
3. Perform a
for a similarly titled item that would be available.

More about this item

Statistics

Access and download statistics

Corrections

All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:dbk:rehabi:v:2:y:2022:i::p:17:id:17. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Javier Gonzalez-Argote (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://ri.ageditor.ar/ .

Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.