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    Riesgo de caídas en adultos mayores institucionalizados de la fundación Santa María de la Esperanza, septiembre 2024 - febrero 2025
    (Universidad de Cuenca, 2025-03-06) Chacho Llivicura, Jessenia Lisseth; Rivera Alarcón, Marilyn Anabel; Deleg Quichimbo, Clara Leonor
    For older adults, falls are the major cause of injuries, loss of independence, and death. This renders them an important public health problem. Objective: Determine the frequency of the risk of falls among older adults living at the Santa María de la Esperanza Foundation, during the period of September 2024 - February 2025. Methodology: Descriptive prospective, crosssectional study, consisting of 54 older adults for whom the Downtown scale was applied to identify falling risk. They were used for analysis and tabulation of dates—the SPSS V.22 statistical package—including central tendency measures of dispersion and cross tables and Pearson's chi-square calculation. Decisions were made with a significance of 0.05. Results: Of the 54 participants, 32 were women, and 22 were men. The minimum age was 64, and the maximum 97. 13% of the population had low falling risk, and 87% had high risk. Furthermore, high falling risk was more frequent in the age range 80-89 (with a percentage of 33.33%). Among other associated factors, 44.4% had polypharmacy, and 48.1% had a previous history of falls. Falls occurred with higher frequency in the morning, with the home being the most common place. Conclusions: The high risk of falling among the studied institutionalized population of older adults underscores the importance of implementing specific prevention strategies and integral management of falling risk, with special attention to associated risk factors.