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BACKGROUND: Frailty is characterized by multisystem dysregulations, leading to a loss of
dynamic homeostasis, decreased physiologic reserve, and increased vulnerability for
subsequent morbidity and mortality. This is often manifested by maladaptive response to
stressors, leading to a vicious cycle toward functional decline and other serious adverse
health outcomes. The five frailty criteria are weight loss, exhaustion, low physical activity, slowness and weakness. The sum score of these five criteria classifies people into one of
three frailty stages (or groups): not frail (score 0), pre-frail (score 1–2) and frail (score 3–5). Comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) was developed as a multidimensional and
structured approach aimed at the identification and management of the problems in older
adults. High prevalence of frailty indicates the need of routine frailty appraisal as a part of
comprehensive geriatric assessment. The CGA contributed to early recognition of frail older
people’s needs and ensured a care plan and follow up. PURPOSE: To study the association between the frailty syndrome and comprehensive
geriatric assessment in community dwelling elderly. METHODS: 60 individuals (Mean age = 68.15 ± 6.98 years) were selected based on
inclusion and exclusion criteria. All individuals were divided into non frail, pre frail and frail
groups as per frailty criteria and then comprehensive geriatric assessment including function, cognition, depression, sensory, nutrition, balance and social isolation were assessed and then
scoring was done. RESULT: The chi square test of independence (level of significance p<0.05) was performed
to examine the relation between frailty and CGA components. Results indicated no
significant association between grades of frailty and fall risk (χ
2 = 0.41), BMI (χ2 = 4.40), social isolation (χ
2 = 0.01), IADLs (χ
2 = 2.07) whereas significant association was seen
between frailty and depression (χ
2 = 0.12), cognition (χ2 = 6.30), hearing (χ
2 = 7.13), vision
(χ
2 = 22.55) & basic ADLs (χ
2 = 20.92). CONCLUSION: Frailty was significantly associated with cognition, sensory impairments, and basic ADLs of components of CGA. Nutrition, depression, fall risk, social isolation and
instrumental ADLs of functional impairment components of comprehensive geriatric
assessment were not associated with Frailty. KEY WORDS: Frailty, Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA)
Keywords:
frailty, geriatric assessment,
Cite Article:
"DETERMINING ASSOCIATION OF FRAILTY SYNDROME WITH COMPREHENSIVE GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT IN COMMUNITY DWELLING ELDERLY", International Journal of Novel Research and Development (www.ijnrd.org), ISSN:2456-4184, Vol.8, Issue 4, page no.f210-f221, April-2023, Available :http://www.ijnrd.org/papers/IJNRD2304522.pdf
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