Assessment of hand prehensile strength in older adults (Original)

Abstract

Healthy physical condition in older adults entails a dynamic state of energy and vitality that allows people to carry out usual daily tasks, enjoy active leisure time and face unforeseen emergencies without excessive fatigue, its evaluation is a necessity for diagnose morbidities and outline therapeutic intervention strategies. This essay intends to reflect on the evaluation of hand strength, for which the objective was to assess some studies on the ways of addressing manual pressure strength in older adults. Review and original studies that addressed, from different perspectives, the importance of evaluating this indicator as a predictor of different morbidities, as well as its usefulness for proposing intervention strategies that restore impaired functions, were assessed.