FRAILTY SYNDROME IN THE OLD PEOPLE AFFECTED BY STROKE: NARRATIVE REVIEW

Abstract

Annually, the indexes of the age pyramid have become inverse, with the elderly population being the most prevalent. These are the individuals with the highest risk of chronic diseases and comorbidities such as Cerebral Vascular Accident (CVA). When affected by stroke, the quality of life is increasingly reduced, associated with the sequelae of the disease. These can be emotional, physiological or social. Thus, the term Fragility Syndrome (FS) was put on the agenda, to identify and highlight factors that affect this population. The objective of the study was to identify in the scientific literature the studies about the frailty syndrome in patients affected by stroke. This research is characterized as a narrative review of articles published in the last 10 years (2017 to 2022) and indexed in the database. In total, 5 articles were included for the study, including two cross-sectional studies, two observational and one cohort. The studies were based on stroke involvement and signs that reveal frailty factors, identifying how this theme is exposed in the literature. The data could list actions that the nurse, as a caring professional, can exercise to improve the patient's quality of life. It can be concluded that there is a direct relationship between FS and stroke, this is due to the often irreversible losses caused to this individual, making moments of life that were once independent no longer. The need for constant support in everyday actions subjects this person to a feeling of incapacitation, affecting the emotional and psychic already with the physiologically weak.