Introduction: Frailty is defined as a syndrome of physiological decline in late life, which confers extreme vulnerability to stressors and increases the risk of a range of adverse health outcomes. The prevalence of frailty among independently living adults up to 65 years ranges about 7%, at higher age the percent is higher. The outcomes of frailty are defined as increased incidence of falls, increased need for activity of daily living and instrumental activity of daily living support and a great increase in mortality. For this reason is so important to identify frailty as soon as posible. Purpose: Purpose of this diploma work is to introduce the sindrom of frailty in elderly adults and manegement of nurses in their treatment. Methods: The diploma work was written using a descriptive method with a review of domestic and foreign literature from field of nursing and frail elderly. We have researched databases named COBISS, CINAHL with Full Text and Medline. Results: Prevention of frailty is possible and is the key of keeping good physical balance. The most important thing is healthy lifestyle, including healthy and balanced nutrition combinated with regularly daily excercise. An important role of nurse and her responsibility is to provide education to the elderly and their family in primary care. She has knowledge and power to do that. Screening tools help her identify elderly with risk of becoming frail. Discussion and conclusion: Because of increasing number of elderly, we can expect more and more health care issues related to gerontology in future, as well as rising number of frail elderly. Frailty is not the state, that necessarily lead to death, but can be prevented or dismissed with the right combination of steps. Because of that, we need to continue to research and implement new tools for screening frail elderly. That will help health care workers, frail elderly and his family and general population to spread the knowledge of frailty around the world.
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