Olga Bueno Yáñez, Juan José Calvo Aguirre, Joana Uranga Zaldua, Josu Alustiza Navarro, Maider Ugartemendia Yerobi
INTRODUCTION: Functional capacity is a good indicator of health, quality of life, and a good predictor of morbimortality. It is a priority to functionally assess the geriatric population through objective, precise, and simple instruments. The Alusti Test in its two versions, complete (TA) and abbreviated (TAA), is a scale that meets these criteria. OBJECTIVE: To determine the usefulness of the Alusti Test as a predictor of adverse health events: falls, hospitalizations, cognitive deterioration, and mortality in the elderly institutionalized population, with a two-year follow-up...
February 27, 2024: Revista Española de Geriatría y Gerontología