Quisiera hacer algunos comentarios sobre el Trabajo Original “Propuesta para el ajuste de las tablas estandarizadas del índice de masa corporal para las personas adultas mayores enMéxico” publicado enel número anterior.

Background: Sleep disorders in the elderly are quite frequent, they significantly affect their quality of life, and sometimes these conditions are poorly recognized by physicians.Objective: To determine sleep quality, the frequency of daily sleepiness and sleep hygiene in elderly at an Elderly Daycare Center in Lima, Peru.Material and methods: 73 elderly persons in an Elderly Daycare Center were interviewed using the previously validated Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Questionnaire, the Epworth Sleepiness Scale and the modified Sleep Hygiene Index.Results: 74% (54 persons) of participants were found to have a poor sleep quality, the component analysis showed that 9,6% of interviewees perceived their sleep quality as poor and very poor (7 persons), 20,2% reported prolonged sleep latency (14 persons), 24,7% reported poor and very poor sleep duration (18 persons), and 52,1% ha...

  Objetivos:Determinar la mortalidad y la estancia hospitalaria de los pacientes adultos mayores hospitalizados en un hospital general de Lima Metropolitana en el periodo 1997 a 2008. Material y Métodos Estudio descriptivo, retrospectivo de los egresos hospitalarios de pacientes mayores de 14 años de edad, obtenidos de la base de datos del Departamento de Estadística del hospital en dicho periodo. Resultados En el período de 1997 a 2008 fueron hospitalizados 27 152 pacientes, el 53,66% fueron del sexo masculino. El 38,61% fue del grupo >60 años. La estancia hospitalaria en el grupo menor de 60 años fue 14,84 días y en el grupo >60 años 13,63 días (p<0.05). La mortalidad hospitalaria en los menores de 60 años fue 9,6% y 14,3% en el grupo >60 años, (p<0.05), en el subgrupo de 60 a 79 año...

Objetivo. Determinar la morbimortalidad de los pacientes adultos mayores y menores de 60 años hospitalizados en un hospital general.  Material y Métodos. Estudio descriptivo y retrospectivo de una población de pacientes > 14 años hospitalizados en los servicios de medicina y de la unidad de Enfermedades Infecciosas y Tropicales del Hospital NacionalCayetano Heredia, durante el período 2009-2012. La información fue obtenida de la base de datos de losregistros de egresos obtenidos del departamento de Estadística del hospital.resultados. En el período de estudio fueron hospitalizados 8 649 pacientes > 14 años, de los cuales3 744 pacientes (43,29 %) correspondieron a los de ≥ 60 años.La población adulta mayor hospitalizada representó 41,37 % en el año 2009;43,93 % en el año 2010;45,89 % el año 2011y el 41,82 % el año 2012.La estancia hospitalaria media del totald...

Objective: To modify the currently used Sleep Hygiene Index by Mastin et al, in order to use it in the elderly. Material and method: An elderly-adapted version of the Sleep Hygiene Index originally proponed by Mastin et al. was translated, peer-validated and had its internal consistency assessed using Cronbach’s Alpha method.   Results. The aforementioned instrument was translated and modifications for its use in the elderly were performed by six experts, and the instrument was validated for use in the elderly according to an 80% coincidence. A preliminary test for adjusting the scale was performed in 50 subjects who were more than sixty-years old, after signing an informed consent and excluding the illiterate persons, those with moderate or severe cognitive deterioration, and those with sever visual or auditory deficit. The modified instrument obtained a 0.7 value f...

Introduction: A negative disposition influences the attitudes of health care professionals, since this is often based on erroneous assumptions about the usefulness of chronological age as a functional marker or with respect to elderly persons' ability to contribute to society. Material and Method: This is a study for validating an instrument, the Kogan's attitudes towards older people, and to determine attitudes towards the elderly in primary health care personnel in Tumbes. Results: A language validation was performed, the instrument was assessed by specifically appointed raters, and its reliability was also determined. Finally, the validated survey was administered to primary health care workers in Tumbes Health Direction. A 0,81 concordance coefficient (kappa) between translators and re-translators was found. The validity of the instrument was estimated on the basis of the assessment ...

Objective: To assess the emergency services personnel's attitude towards the elderly in Lima hospitals
 Material and Method: The Kogan's Attitudes towards Older People Scale (KOP), validated by Sampen in Peru, was administered to healthcare workers from the Emergency Departments in three national hospitals in Lima: Cayetano Heredia (HNCH), Arzobispo Loayza (HNAL), and Hipolito Unanue (HNHU). A positive attitude towards the elderly was established if calculated scores in KOP were above 102, and a negative attitude was defined when KOP scores were 102 or lower. Results: Two hundred and thirty five healthcare workers were interviewed. Nearly half of them (45,5%) were physicians, 45,5% were nurses, and 9% were administrative personnel. The mean age of interviewees was 34 years (SD: 7,3) and 50,6% were female. A positive attitude towards the elderly was found in 97,6% of the emergency servi...

Objetivos: Describir el estado y las características de la investigación en Geriatría y Gerontología realizada en el Perú y su evolución en la última década. Material y métodos: Estudio descriptivo, bibliométrico de tesis y publicaciones en Geriatría y Gerontología realizadas a nivel nacional desde el 2002 al 2013. Se utilizó una metodología de búsqueda mediante el uso de palabras clave en base de datos de universidades, en REPEBIS, LILACS, SciELO y PubMed incluyendo las investigaciones que cumplían el rigor de un estudio científico. Resultados: Se identificaron 399 investigaciones, 104 (26%) de Gerontología y 295 (74%) de Geriatría. El 71% de los trabajos se realizó en la ciudad de Lima seguido por Arequipa (7%) y Trujillo (5%). La mayoría fueron descriptivos (88%), de corte transversal (77,2%) y realizados en escenarios hospitalarios (57,1%). El área social...