[PDF] Top 20 Prevalence and Factors Associated with Frailty Among Peruvian Older Adults

... The prevalence of frailty found in this study is comparable to previously published rates in other population ...of older Mexican Americans aged 70 years and older, the ... See full document

... important factors, such as comorbidity or socioeconomic status, was also a ...comorbidity and homebound ...was associated with homebound ...people with lower family incomes are more ... See full document

... extracting factors was applied to these 50 categories in order to identify a reduced number of factors that could explain the maximum proportion of the variance from the original ...The factors were ... See full document

... diseases and disorder’s evolution with impact on functioning such as Parkinson [64] or multiple sclerosis [65, ...think, and it is a complex task with a high cognitive workload that requires ... See full document

... design, and as such, no statements can be made about causal ...to frailty, or conversely, frailty might contribute to poor nutrition or ...diating factors, such as poor dentition and ... See full document

... young adults is their inability to work (Wagner, Ghosh-Dastidar, Dickens, Nakasujja, Okello, Luyirika et ...terfere with their professional ...living with HIV/AIDS (Freitas, Galvão, Araujo, Costa ... See full document

... age and excess weight (overweight and obesity), which is observed in men and ...are older, in married (OR = 1,72) or divorced (OR = ...1.98) and in persons with higher ... See full document

... Physical frailty has been described along a continuum of severity (fitness-frailty spectrum) with three stages: non-frailty or robustness, pre-frailty (precursor or latent state) ... See full document

... signs and symptoms. In this regard, the term “frailty” represents an approach to age-related conditions by replacing the obsolete concept of “chronological age” with the more accurate and ... See full document

... 69 frailty in older adults in cross-sectional studies. Among works assessing all these three biomarkers, some of them reported increases in their concentrations with frailty ... See full document

... included and evaluated by self-report were: age (less than or equal to 70 years, 71 to 80 years, over 80 years), gender (male, female), educational level (no education/incomplete ele- mental school, complete ... See full document

... gender and being older are two main characteristics related with frailty [1, 4, 31, ...of frailty given that they have a longer life expectancy and accumulate more frailty ... See full document

... higher among women aged 60 or older (γ women = ...poor” and being illiterate or having primary studies are factors associated with greater dis- ability among older ... See full document

... one older adult for every ...block and a total of 30 blocks to be ...expected prevalence of 50 % for poor SRH (in order to maximize the sample size [p= ...7,376 older adults residing in ... See full document

... the frailty pheno- type could be taken as deficits in a frailty index; how- ever, when doing this, the higher the number of deficits included in the frailty index will have the highest risk estimates ... See full document

... n-6 and n-3 essential fatty acids, high amounts of dietary fibers, high oleic acid, and polyphenols ...antithrombotic and anti-inflammatory properties and improved lipid profile in people ... See full document

... contact with the street outside their owners’ ...inside and outside the house, and the majority ...cement and 40 % lived on floors made of both cement and ...floors. With regards ... See full document

... known and more research is needed (Faulkner & Biddle, ...behaviours and multiple health indicators in the elderly population (Rezende, Rey-López, Matuso, & Luiz, 2014) and to understand the ... See full document

... interviewed and 352 were both interviewed and ...interview and measurements were carried out with all the schoolchildren who had parental ...diagnosis and/or treatment of diabetes, ... See full document

... 2002) and which sex ...status and having children have been studied less and the results in multi-occupational samples have been inconsistent, making it diffi cult to infer the existence of any ... See full document