Zespół kruchości w gabinecie lekarza praktyka — o czym należy pamiętać?

Abstract

The aging process does not occur in the same way for all patients. The pace of this process, both physical and mental, is very different. The quality of life of an elderly patient depends on many factors, including lifestyle, genetic predisposition and appropriate medical care. The quality of health care depends, among other things, on how quickly and, whether or not, the doctor sees correctly signs of premature or „abnormal” aging. To facilitate this, a set of symptoms was identified, the occurrence of which should alert the doctor due to the relationship with increased mortality. In the English-language literature, this group is called frailty syndrome. In the Polish literature, the most widely used description of this phenomenon is probably zespół kruchości . The aim of this paper was to present the importance of this syndrome in clinical practice.