@article{ref1,
title="Assessment of frailty in the elderly",
journal="Florence Nightingale journal of nursing",
year="2021",
author="Düzgün, Gönül and Üstündağ, Sema and Karadakovan, Ayfer",
volume="29",
number="1",
pages="2-8",
abstract="AIM: This study aimed to evaluate frailty in older individuals and to identify factors related to frailty. <br><br>METHOD: The descriptive, and cross-sectional study was conducted with 111 elderly patients who received inpatient treatment in a university hospital between January and September 2016. Ethics committee approval, institutional consent, and informed patient consent were obtained for the study. Along with the Edmonton Frail Scale, a data form was used to collect data about the patient's sociodemographics, disease status, and fall incidents. The data were collected through face-to-face interviews. <br><br>RESULTS: The prevalence of severe frailty was 19.8%. Significant relationships were found between frailty and advanced age, low education, low income, continuous use of medicines, and a history of falls within the last year. <br><br>CONCLUSION: Elderly individuals included in the study were categorized as &quot;vulnerable&quot; (Edmonton Frail Scale score of 6.84±3.83) and were at the borderline for &quot;mild frailty&quot; (Edmonton Frail Scale score of 7-8). The factors associated with frailty were advanced age, low education, and income level, continuous use of medicines, and the history of falls within the last year.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2687-6442",
doi="10.5152/FNJN.2021.414736",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.5152/FNJN.2021.414736"
}