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