This course will cover:
- Definition of frailty
- Frailty scales
- Prevalence of frailty in different settings: community, care homes, acute admissions and inpatients
- Theories underpinning the pathophysiology of frailty
- Clinical presentation of frail older people
- Adverse outcomes of frailty in different settings: community and inpatients
- Evidence based interventions to improve outcomes for frail older people in a range of settings
- Robustly articulate arguments to focus on the care of older people
- Able to employ a range of teaching techniques to influence colleagues behaviours to older people
- Frailty Core Capabilities Framework (understanding tiers and articulate
- Person’s experience of living with Frailty and patient outcomes desired to see
- Care planning
- Treatment
- Language of frailty – conversations with carers
- Advocate for frail older people
- Demonstrate experience working in a unit with a frailty pathway