Functional Status of Patients over 65 Years Old Intervened on for a Hip Fracture One Year after the Operation.

Objectives: Evaluation of the functional status one year after a hip fracture surgery and the influence of sarcopenia and other clinical factors at the time of admission.

Method: Prospective observational study with 135 patients over 65 years of age. Functional status of basic (modified Katz) and instrumental activities (Lawton and Brody) and walking ability (Functional Ambulation Classification, FAC) was measured on admission, at discharge, and telephonically one year later.

Functional trajectories associated with acute illness and hospitalization in oldest old patients: Impact on mortality.

The literature pays low attention to functional changes during acute illness in older patients. Our main objectives were to separately describe the different functional changes occurring before and after hospital admission in oldest old medical patients, to investigate their association with mortality, and identify predictors associated with in-hospital failure to recover function. Secondary analysis of data from a prospective cohort study conducted in a tertiary teaching hospital.

Development and validation of a prognostic index for 6- and 12-month mortality in hospitalized older adults.

Background/aim: Estimation of mortality in elderly patients is difficult yet very important when planning care. Previous tools are complicated or do no take into account some major determinants of mortality (i.e.