Avaliação e comparação dos fatores intrínsecos dos riscos de quedas em idosos com diferentes estados funcionais

Abstract

Falls in old people are multifactorials events that represent a large importance to the gerontologists because it appears with large morbidity
and mortality in this age. This dissertation has the objective to trace the socio-functional and clinic profile of olders ambulatoriais with differents
grades of performance and then, compare them, identify the factors
evaluated who have correlation with the risk and frequency of the fall. Forty nine olders were evaluated (with average age of 71.24, SD 5.47) of a screening ambulatory of Geriatric Service of a tertiary Hospital, in relation to their balance and gait (assessed by POMA), muscle strength (30's chair stand), gait velocity (Timed Up and Go), incidence of falls and others risks clinics; the olders were divided in to two groups of risks of falls, thrown the
test POMA: medium and low risk. Results: the group of medium risk related more falls (14 olders) than the low risk (3), proved statistically (qui- square 0,0052). Into the factors of risks evaluated, the presence of depression or antecedents was the most frequent in the medium risk (qui-square 0,0016), but it didn't present difference if the variable was the
number of falls; the muscle weakness presented statistic correlation in the relation of risk (qui- square 0,0284) and the fall (qui-square 0,0013). These facts suggest that the POMA really evaluates the risk of falls and the treatment of risk factors like depression or antecedents and the muscle weakness can cooperate in the prevention of the occurrence of falls in olders of medium risk.