医学
老年学
生活质量(医疗保健)
人口
老年人
老年人
虚弱综合征
日常生活活动
人口老龄化
虚弱指数
物理疗法
环境卫生
护理部
作者
Ioanna V. Papathanasiou,Anna Rammogianni,Dimitrios Papagiannis,Foteini Malli,Dimitrios C Mantzaris,Konstantinos Tsaras,Ioanna V. Papathanasiou,Evridiki Kaba,Martha Kelesi,Εvangelos C. Fradelos
出处
期刊:Cureus
[Cureus, Inc.]
日期:2021-02-01
被引量:14
摘要
Older people often feel weak and have limited physical activity and walking capacity, without energy.These characteristics meet the conditions for the onset of the frailty syndrome.The effect that frailty syndrome can have on the elderly's quality of life (QOL) status has not been sufficiently explored, especially in the Greek population.This study aims to investigate the correlation between frailty and QOL in a community population of elderly people with independent living.A descriptive cross-sectional study was performed.The study sample consisted of 257 elderly people from three Open Care Centers for the Elderly Population of the Municipality of Grevena, Greece.The Tilburg Frailty Indicator was used to measure frailty in elderly people and the World Health Organization QOL-BREF was used to assess the health-related QOL of older people.The majority of elderly people showed relatively low overall frailty score (mean: 5.44).The elderly people had relatively high QoL assessment values and general satisfaction with their health condition.The obtained results show a statistically significant negative relationship between (i) physical frailty, psychological frailty, and all dimensions of QOL, (ii) social frailty and social relationships, and (iii) total frailty and all dimensions of QOL.Consequently, despite an average age of 75.12 years and higher female participation, the study population was not very frail and were satisfied with their QOL.Frailty has a negative effect in all QOL domains.
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