Objective:

Analyze the relationship of frailty, polypharmacy and risk of falls in older adults.

Methodology:

The study design was descriptive, correlational and cross-sectional, made up of 261 older adults from Saltillo, Coahuila. A personal data card and the prevalence of polypharmacy, the Frail scale and the Tinetti scale were used. The data was analyzed through SPSS version 25 for Windows, frequencies and percentages, measures of central tendency and dispersion were used.

Results:

The 19.2% of participants were frail, 44.1% of older adults had polypharmacy, and 37.5% reported a high risk of falls. Frailty was positively and significantly correlated with polypharmacy (rs = 0.274; p < 0.01) and risk of falls was negatively and significantly correlated with frailty (rs = -0.333; p < 0.01).

Conclusions:

There is a relationship between frailty and the risk of falls in older adults, polypharmacy was not related to the risk of falls.

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