The discrimination of screen pre-frailty for community-dwelling elderly people

3^rd Euro Nursing & Medicare Summit

July 27-29, 2015 Valencia, Spain

Shu-Fang Chang, Rea-Jeng Yang, Ming-Lee Yeh and Hsiu-Li Huang

National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences, Taiwan

Posters-Accepted Abstracts: J Nurs Care

Abstract :

The World Health Organization (WHO, 2013) has emphasized the concept of pre-frailty among elderly people, and is actively developing intervention projects for treating pre-frailty. According to previous reports, the overall prevalence of frailty for people aged 65 and over is approximately 4.1% to 14% in Europe, the United Kingdom, Taiwan and the United States. The empirical measurement of frailty is based on the following five indicators: weight loss, weakness, exhaustion, slow responses and minimal physical activity. Multivariate logistic regression and receiver operating characteristic analyses were performed. The logistic regression results showed that the factors significantly correlated to pre-frailty included falls, smoking, hypertension and, bone and joint disease. The analysis results showed that the areas under the ROC curves (AUROC) for the diagnostic accuracy of grip and the 8-foot up-and-go test reached 0.77. The information can enable health practitioners to achieve early identification of pre- frailty among elderly people with anthropometric characteristics similar to those associated with people in Asian countries.

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