Problemele mari geriatrice, bolile cardiovasculare cronice și calitatea vieţii pacienţilor vârstnici din Republica Moldova

Abstract

This study demonstrates some provisional facts about the major geriatric syndromes at the hospital stage (the type and frequency of main geriatric syndromes and chronic cardiovascular diseases) according to age. Also, 6 domains of quality of life were evaluated and established its correlation with cardiovascular diseases and geriatric syndromes. The results of evaluating daily activities, walking and balance, cognitive status and depression, established a lower score in patients older than 75 years. Also, the following geriatric syndromes was diagnosed: frailty, constipation, urinary incontinence, iatrogenic, and fall syndrome with a higher score. From chronic cardiovascular pathologies, a higher frequency was recorded in hypertension, ischemic cardiomyopathy and cardiac insufficiency at age over 75 years. Also, the quality of life of this group of patients was at the low level.