Objective: To find out if decreased grip strength is associated with frailty and adverse outcomes at three-month follow-up. Materials and methods: A descriptive, observational and prospective study. Patients older than 59 years of age attending a day hospital were included in the research. The dominant hand grip strength was measured during an outpatient visit. Frailty was assessed using the Edmonton Frail Scale. The association between decreased grip strength, frailty and adverse outcomes at three-month follow-up was evaluated using the chi-square test and Student’s t-test.Results: Grip strength was measured in 82 older adults (out of whom 46 were females) whose mean age was 83.68 years. Based on the Edmonton Frail Scale, 83.33 % of the study subjects were severely frail, 87.87 % were moderately frail, 86.66 % were mildly frail and 46.66 % were vulnerable to frailty. According to this...

Objective: To determine the relationship between mortality and level of frailty using the Frailty Index–Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (FI–CGA) among older adults at a 12-month follow-up. Materials and methods: A descriptive, observational and prospective study with non-probabilistic sampling conducted with patients over 60 years of age from the Geriatrics Service. Using the FI–CGA, frailty was diagnosed if the score was greater than or equal to 0.2 at the different levels of care: acute care unit, day hospital, outpatient clinic and house call. Moreover, a follow-up was conducted 12 months following their telephone consultation. In case of death, the event and cause were confirmed in the Sistema Informático Nacional de Defunciones (SINADEF, National Death Computer System) of the Ministry of Health of Peru. Patients who died from coronavirus complications were excluded. To det...

Objective: To learn about the disagreements among geriatricians from a Latin American country (Peru) as to the palliative therapy for dementia. Materials and methods: A descriptive and cross-sectional study. The population consisted of Peruvian geriatricians and geriatrics residents surveyed during August 2019. A non-probability convenience sampling was used. Considering a total population of 277 geriatricians in Peru and a design effect of 1.0, the minimum sample size was 162 geriatricians. The survey included different questions focused on geriatricians’ decisions on the daily clinical practice of terminal care in dementia. To ensure a better understanding of the answers, a typical case of the disease was presented. Results: One hundred sixty-two (162) doctors were surveyed, most of whom were geriatricians (81.48 %). Regarding the global level of attitudes and knowledge of palliative...