frail elderly adults: concerns and recommendations

Geriatric Urinary Incontinence – Special Concerns on the Frail Elderly

Prevalence of falls among frail elderly adults.

OBJECTIVE To measure the prevalence in frail elderly people, their consequences and associated demographic factors. METHODS This was an epidemiological and cross-sectional study with a probabilistic sample composed of 240 elderly people (≥ 60 years) living in Ribeirão Preto, Sao Paulo state. Data were collected between November 2010 and February 2011, through a questionnaire that included soc...

Geriatric Urinary Incontinence – Special Concerns on the Frail Elderly

Since the last decades, the elderly population is growing significantly and the projection for the next 20-25 years is that the range of over 80 is increasing. Frailty is accepted as a syndrome of late-life decline and vulnerability that serves as a warning sign for adverse health outcomes and for mortality. The identification of vulnerable, frail, adults may allow the development of preventive...

Frail elderly and palliative care.

This paper deals with the assessment of suffering in frail elderly end-of-life patients. Our main goal was to determine the factors that cause suffering and the resources the patients may have to cope with such suffering. In addition, we tested a method of assessing the subjective global well-being in this population by asking about the patient's perception of time passing. The study also inclu...

Pharmacotherapy in frail elderly

Frail elderly and palliative care

framework of oncologic end-stage illness, even though the WHO does not mention any specific pathology in its definition (Bayés, Arranz, Barbero, & Barreto, 1996). In fact, as indicated by Botella et al. (Botella, Errando, & Martínez, 1998), elderly patients who suffer from a non-oncologic, end-stage illness are rarely admitted to units where this kind of care is provided. With the exception of ...