Introduction:

to evaluate physical performance of elder people is an important working tool for determining sarcopenia, frailty and that way assessing the functional capacity at this age.

Objective:

to evaluate physical performance in elder people from policlinic "Heroes del Moncada".

Materials and methods:

a cross-sectional, descriptive research was carried out in 422 elder people from the Teaching Policlinic "Heroes del Moncada" in the period from May 2011 to May 2014. Physical performance was determined applying the test staying 5 times up from a chair and measuring the speed of a 4.5- meters-long walk.

Results:

90.3 % of the people completed the test staying 5 times up from a chair in 13.8 sec. The average speed of the walk was 0.74 m/sec.

Conclusions:

most of elder people were female, aged 70-79 years, independent according to the Basic and Instrumented Activities of the Daily Life and showing good physical performance.

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