title: [Health status of the elderly in primary health care practices using an integral geriatric assessment].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To determine the health status of patients 60 years of age or over in Primary Health Care practices using an integral geriatric assessment.
  
  
  METHODS
  Descriptive cross-sectional study.
  
  
  METHODS
  Five primary care units, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social; México.
  
  
  METHODS
  Elderly patient aged 60 years of age or over, who were seen in primary health care practices. Previously signed informed consent was given, with exclusion criteria being non-completion of the integral geriatric assessment. A technical sample of conglomerates and quota was used.
  
  
  METHODS
  Medical dimension variables: visual, hearing (Hearing Handicap Inventory for the Elderly), urinary incontinence (Consultation in Incontinence Questionnaire), nutritional condition (Mini Nutritional Assessment), personal clinical history, polypharmacy; mental impairment (Mini Mental State Examination), depression (Yesavaje); functional: basic (Katz) and instrumental (Lawton and Brody) activities of daily living, mobility (Up and go) and social (Social sources scale). The analysis included percentages and confidence intervals.
  
  
  RESULTS
  In the medical dimensions; 42.3% with visual impairment, 27.7% hearing, 68.3% urinary incontinence, 37.0% malnutrition, and 54.7% polypharmacy. In the mental dimension: 4.0% severe mental impairment, and 11% depression: functional dimension: 2.0% total dependence of activities of daily living; 14.3% instrumental activities impairment; 29.0% mobility impairment, and 48.0% had moderately deteriorated social resources.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The health status of the elderly seen in primary health care practices is characterized by independent patients with different levels of alterations in the medical dimensions, low levels in mental alteration, and moderately deteriorated social resources.
authors.affiliation: Unidad de Investigación Epidemiológica y en Servicios de Salud Querétaro, Querétaro, México; Unidad de Medicina Familiar N.11, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Querétaro, México. Electronic address: roxgcb77@yahoo.com.
authors.forename: Roxana Gisela
authors.initials: RG
authors.lastname: Cervantes Becerra
authors.affiliation: Unidad de Investigación Epidemiológica y en Servicios de Salud Querétaro, Querétaro, México.
authors.forename: Enrique
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Villarreal Ríos
authors.affiliation: Unidad de Investigación Epidemiológica y en Servicios de Salud Querétaro, Querétaro, México.
authors.forename: Liliana
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Galicia Rodríguez
authors.affiliation: Unidad de Investigación Epidemiológica y en Servicios de Salud Querétaro, Querétaro, México.
authors.forename: Emma Rosa
authors.initials: ER
authors.lastname: Vargas Daza
authors.affiliation: Unidad de Investigación Epidemiológica y en Servicios de Salud Querétaro, Querétaro, México.
authors.forename: Lidia
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Martínez González
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D015577:Geriatric Assessment / Q000379:methods; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011320:Primary Health Care
keywords: Anciano; Atención primaria; Elderly; Estado de salud; Geriatric assessment; Health status; Primary health care; Valoración geriátrica