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    Síndrome de fragilidad en adultos mayores
    (Universidad Técnica de Ambato/ Facultad de Ciencias de Salud /Carrera de Enfermería, 2023-10-13) Paredes Núñez, Cynthia Lissette; López Pérez, Grace Pamela
    Introduction: Frailty syndrome is a condition associated with aging with a high incidence in older adults. Objective: To identify the frailty syndrome in older adults from the "Sagrado Corazón de Jesús" nursing home. Methods: Descriptive, cross-sectional and correlational study. The total study population was 60 patients, the instrument applied Frailty Tilburg Indicator (TFI) whose usefulness allows to measure the total frailty, as well as each domain of frailty, within which is: physical frailty with 8 items, cognitive frailty with 4 items, and social fragility with 3 items. Results: Physical frailty has a mean of 2 points, a maximum of 8 points with a mean of 6.8 points and σ=1.55. Psychological fragility shows a minimum of 0 points and a maximum of 4 points with a mean of 3.25 points and σ=0.79. Social fragility shows a minimum of 0 points, a maximum of 1 point with a mean of 0.9 points with σ=3.0 points. Conclusions: Frailty is a complex syndrome, which requires a special approach because it is a frequent disorder in the elderly, for which it is essential to carry out a rapid screening through the application of scales, to know the lifestyle, the risk factors, and the motor and mental skills that the elderly have in order to be able to interpret the management that the patient requires.