Resilience of elderly patients with sarcopenic obesity and age-related visual impairment

Abstract

BACKGROUND: The development of visual deficit due to glaucoma or cataracts significantly limits motor activity and reduces the independence of elderly patients from others in daily activities. However, resilience among older patients with primary open-angle glaucoma and cortical cataract remains largely unexplored.
 AIM: To analysis of the resilience of elderly patients with primary open-angle glaucoma and cortical cataract
 MATERIALS AND METHODS: For this study, two clinical groups were formed: patients aged 60–74 years with primary open-angle glaucoma without secondary cataracts in the amount of 135 people (64 men and 71 women) and patients with cortical cataracts without combination with glaucoma in the number of 128 people (59 men and 69 women). To study the viability of patients, the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale-25, validated in the Russian Federation, was used.
 RESULTS: To the greatest extent, representatives of both study groups differed in the subdomain “security in relationships” and “positivity of accepted changes” with a representative difference. The compared groups of patients also had statistically significant differences in such an important subdomain as individual perseverance (p 0.05) and competence in mean scores for each cohort. At the same time, there was a deterioration in age-related vitality according to the final parameter of patients on the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale-25. At the same time, the decrease in the average value of the integral parameter according to the age-related vitality scale used in the study was 16.3 points with a statistically significant difference (p 0.05) in the group with cortical cataracts.
 CONCLUSION: As a result of the study, it was found that cortical cataracts and primary open-angle glaucoma contributed to a decrease in the vitality of elderly patients, and this was more pronounced in patients with primary open-angle glaucoma, which should be taken into account when justifying medical and psychological support for such patients.