Frailty syndrome and risks for falling in the elderly community

Author:

Taguchi Carlos Kazuo1ORCID,Menezes Pedro de Lemos2ORCID,Melo Amanda Caroline Souza2,Santana Leonardo Santos de1ORCID,Conceição Wesley Rayan Santos1ORCID,Souza Gabrielle Feitosa de1ORCID,Araújo Brenda Carla Lima1ORCID,Silva Allan Robert da1ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Universidade Federal de Sergipe, Brasil

2. Universidade Estadual de Ciências da Saúde de Alagoas, Brasil

Abstract

ABSTRACT Purpose To identify the prevalence of Frailty Syndrome in the elderly and the relationship with risk of falling. Methods Descriptive, cross-sectional, and analytical clinical study. One hundred and one volunteers over 60 years old were submitted to audiological evaluation, Dynamic Gait Index - Brazilian brief (DGI), Timed Up and Go (TUG) and Edmonton Fragility Scale (EFE) that verified, respectively, hearing thresholds, frailty syndrome, functional and dynamic balance, and risk of falling. The simple percentual distribution, the Wilcoxon´s test and the Bivariate Correlation with Pearson's coefficient were used for statistical analysis. Limits equal to or less than 1.0 and 5.0% were adopted. Results EFE identified 22.8% of volunteers as fragile and 22.8% as vulnerable. DGI and TUG found 34.6% and 84.1% of at risk for falls, respectively. Significant correlations between EFE and DGI (p <0.01), EFE and TUG (p <0.01), and DGI and TUG (p <0.01) were observed. Pearson's coefficient between EFE and DGI, EFE and TUG, and DGI and TUG were -0.26, -0.41, and 0.46, respectively. An association between DGI and TUG and age (p <0.01) was identified. No correlation between EFE and sex or age was found. Conclusion Frailty and pre-frailty were identified in a significant segment of the volunteers, especially in the oldest subjects. Functional and dynamic balance were moderately correlated with frailty, which demonstrated that frailty syndrome increases the risk of falls.

Publisher

FapUNIFESP (SciELO)

Subject

Speech and Hearing,Otorhinolaryngology,Language and Linguistics

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