Factors associated to the frailty phenotype components among hospitalized elderly patients

Abstract The aim of this study was to verify the factors associated with the frailty phenotype components among hospitalized elderly patients. This is a crosssectional and analytical study with 255 elderly patients admitted to the Medical and Surgical Clinic units at a General Hospital of Uberaba-MG. The following instruments were used: Frailty phenotype according to Fried, Scales (Short Geriatric Depression, Katz and Lawton and Brody) and structured questionnaire with socioeconomic and health data. Descriptive, bivariate and logistic regression analyses were performed (p