%0 Journal Article %T La dependencia funcional del anciano institucionalizado valorada mediante el ¨ªndice de Barthel %A Fuente Sanz %A M.a Milagros de la %A Bayona Marzo %A Isabel %A Fern¨¢ndez de Santiago %A Francisco Jos¨¦ %A Mart¨ªnez Le¨®n %A Mercedes %A Navas C¨¢mara %A Francisco Jos¨¦ %J Gerokomos %D 2012 %I Ediciones SPA S.L. %R 10.4321/S1134-928X2012000100004 %X the aim of this article is to evaluate the dependency level of 156 elderly people (101 women and 55 men), residing in private nursing homes in soria (spain), using the barthel index, in order to establish an interdisciplinary performance planning for the prevention and reversal of dependency situations. conclusions: the dependency level of institutionalized elderly people increases by several factors such as, age, sex, the time they have been institutionalized and a bad perception of their health status. %K functional dependency %K institutionalized elderly people %K bartheli index. %U http://scielo.isciii.es/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1134-928X2012000100004&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en