Relación entre la fragilidad y la desnutrición de los adultos mayores mediante el uso de la batería de rendimiento físico corto y el mini nutritional assessment de un Centro Gerontológico de la ciudad de Guayaquil.

Abstract

The fragility has been called as the skeletal muscle alteration, it can be diagnosed with 5 criteria such as: involuntary weight loss, upper muscle weakness, inefficient physical performance, slow walking speed, unstable balance. This research work determined the existence of frailty which was related to the nutritional status of 125 elderly people who attend a gerontological center. The results showed that older adults who attend a gerontological center are in a normal nutritional state. The dynapenia is increased more in men than in women but the fragility is greater in women with more than 50% of the population this is due to the increase of depressive symptoms generating an inhibition in the production of male hormones, when relating the fragility with nutritional status could be observed to have a direct link with the food that the patient carries, it was recommended that they increase the protein intake in their daily diet 1.5g / kg, perform more physical activity and always have their family support.