In-home physical frailty monitoring: relevance with respect to clinical tests.
BMC Geriatr
; 19(1): 34, 2019 02 04.
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ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
Frailty detection and remote monitoring are of major importance for slowing down, and/or even stopping the frailty process in home-dwelling older people. Taking the Fried's criteria as a reference, this work aims to compare the results produced by a technological set (ARPEGE Pack) with those obtained by usual clinical tests, as well as to discuss the ability of the Pack to be used for long-run frailty remote monitoring.METHODS:
194 participants were given a number of geriatric tests and asked to make use of the ARPEGE technological tools as well as reference clinical tools to feed Fried's indicators. Spearman or Pearson's correlation coefficients were used to compare the ARPEGE results to the reference ones, depending on data statistical characteristics.RESULTS:
Good correlations were obtained for measurements of weight (0.99), grip strength (0.89) and walking speed (0.79). Results are much less satisfactory for evaluation of physical activity and exhaustion (Spearman correlation coefficients 0.25 and 0.41, respectively).CONCLUSION:
Correlations regarding weight, grip strength and walking speed confirm the validity of the data produced by the ARPEGE Pack to feed Fried's criteria. Assessing activity level and exhaustion from an abbreviated questionnaire is still questionable. However, for long-run monitoring other methods of evaluation can be explored. Beyond the quantitative results, the ARPEGE Pack has been proved to be acceptable and motivating in such a long-term frailty monitoring.Palabras clave
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Asunto principal:
Ejercicio Físico
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Evaluación Geriátrica
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Anciano Frágil
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Fuerza de la Mano
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Fragilidad
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Servicios de Atención de Salud a Domicilio
Límite:
Aged
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Aged80
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Female
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Humans
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Male
País/Región como asunto:
Europa
Idioma:
En
Revista:
BMC Geriatr
Asunto de la revista:
GERIATRIA
Año:
2019
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Francia