Presentación
AGING AND FRAGILITY IN THE ELDERLY

fragilidadenpersonasmayores@idipaz.es
Composition
Name
Position
Institution
Rocío Menéndez Colino
Facultativo Especialista de Área en Geriatría
Hospital de Cantoblanco - Hospital Universitario La Paz
Francesca Argentina
Facultativo Especialista en Geriatría
Hospital Universitario La Paz
Patricia Ysabel Condorhuamán Alvarado
Facultativo Especialista de Área en Geriatría
Hospital Universitario La Paz
Victoria María Déniz González
Enfermera Especialista en Geriatría
Hospital Universitario La Paz
Javier Gómez Pavón
Jefe de Servicio de Geriatría y de Cuidados Paliativos
Hospital Central Cruz Roja  San José y Santa Adela
Silvia Martín Martín
Enfermera Especialista en Geriatría
FIBHULP
Ana Merello de Miguel
Facultativo Especialista de Área en Geriatría
Hospital Universitario La Paz
Raquel Ramírez Martín
Médico Interno Residente
Hospital Universitario La Paz
Paola Pastora Reinoso Párraga
Facultativo Especialista de Área en Geriatría
Hospital Universitario La Paz
Peggy Paola Ríos Germán
Médico Interno Residente en Geriatría
Hospital Universitario La Paz
María del Pilar Sáez López
Facultativo Especialista de Área en Geriatría
Complejo Asistencial de Ávila
 
Strategic Objective
• To promote and improve the quality of research in the field of Primary Health Care and Geriatrics in the area of influence of IdiPAZ.
• To continue the follow-up of the Cohorts of the Group: elderly people with population-based (Peñagrande Study), patients with frailty syndrome (FONDA) and patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (MADiabetes).
• Progress in the epidemiological study of frailty in the elderly.
• To consolidate clinical studies related to hip fracture and chronic diseases in the elderly, specially the Diabetes Mellitus.
Research Lines
• Coordination of the National Registry of Hip Fractures: a multicenter observational study including patients from 75 Spanish hospitals with an acute fragility hip fracture. The registry collects data from the acute hospital phase and a one-month follow-up from abouy 80 Spanish hospitals.
• Study of the influence of frailty in the implantation of transcateter aortic valve. Multicenter project that includes data fron five Spanis hospitals 
• Cross-specility Geriatrics: Co-management of old patients diagnosed of cancer in colaboration con the General Surgery, Medical and Radioterapic Oncology, Urology and Vacular Surgery Departments of the La Paz Hospital.
• Observational study of the evolution of old patients affected of a traumatic intracranial hemorage, in colaboration with the Neurosurgery Department of the La Paz Hospital.
• Point of care ultrasound sonography.