The fragility.

• Main Authors: Álvaro Da Silva González, Guillermo Da Silva Domingo
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Asociación Nacional de Psicología Evolutiva y Educativa de la Infancia Adolescencia Mayores y Discapacidad 2017-01-01
• Series: INFAD
• Subjects: fragilidad; caídas; función física; discapacidad; dependencia
• Online Access: http://www.infad.eu/RevistaINFAD/OJS/index.php/IJODAEP/article/view/1130

Fragility is an increase in the vulnerability to stressors of low intensity, produced by an alteration in multiple and interrelated systems, which leads to a decrease in the homeostatic reserve and the capacity of adaptation of the organism, which predisposes to adverse events affecting the funcionality. In Geriatrics we group the elderly in Healthy, Sick, Fragile and Geriatric Patient. A very powerful tool is used, which is the Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment with the basic valuations: functional, Cognitive, social, and the complementary ones: Nutritional, affective, of the risk of falls, of the fragility, etc. It is very important to know the reversibility of the problem with a structured and multidisciplinary approach in terms of physical, nutritional, psychological intervention and pharmacological adjustment.