Giannopoulou Aggeliki
Physiotherapist.
J Frailty Sarcopenia Falls. 2017 Mar 1;2(1):12-15. eCollection 2017 Mar.
Frailty is a geriatric syndrome, which is characterized by the decline of the functions of older people systems, resulting in the exposure of one's health at risk, disability and mortality. Older people lose their autonomy and independence, quality of life and their psychological state is decreased. Frailty is a syndrome with multiple manifestations and with no single feature being enough in its presentation, many signs and symptoms determinate it, which frame the "frailty clinical phenotype". The rates of frailty are constantly increasing, due to the increase of the aging population in Western countries. In Europe, these percentages are higher in the Mediterranean countries, on the contrary to the Nordic countries. For this reason it is important to prevent the syndrome and its effects, in order to improve the elderly population quality of life. The aim of this study is to review assessment tools for frailty, to flag consequences of this syndrome, to mention the epidemiological data in European community-dwelling population and mainly in European men, to accent the correlation between frailty and bone health and to report the treatment of frailty.
衰弱是一种老年综合征，其特征是老年人身体各系统功能衰退，导致健康面临风险、残疾和死亡。老年人失去自主性和独立性，生活质量下降，心理状态变差。衰弱是一种具有多种表现的综合征，其表现没有单一特征足以界定，由许多体征和症状来确定，这些构成了“衰弱临床表型”。由于西方国家老年人口增加，衰弱发生率不断上升。在欧洲，地中海国家的这些百分比高于北欧国家。因此，预防该综合征及其影响对于提高老年人口生活质量很重要。本研究的目的是回顾衰弱的评估工具，指出该综合征的后果，提及欧洲社区居住人群尤其是欧洲男性的流行病学数据，强调衰弱与骨骼健康之间的相关性，并报告衰弱的治疗方法。
