Course overview
Improve your recognition of frailty in a variety of settings and explore how you can provide evidence-based interventions and advice to improve the quality of care for people living with frailty.
You enhance person-centred care by integrating and applying theoretical principles and concepts to a contemporary health and social care environment.
Funding: funded places may be available. You are notified if you are eligible for a funded place within your organisation once you have applied.
Course details
What you study
Enhance your knowledge and skills in the areas of:
- the ageing process and its link to frailty
- prevalence and cost of frailty
- theories underpinning the pathophysiology of frailty
- consequences of frailty
- recognising frailty
- assessment and interventions for people living with frailty
- frailty syndromes (falls, immobility, polypharmacy, incontinence, delirium)
- issues affecting older people
- recognising deteriorating patients and advance care planning
- national frailty initiatives and long-term plans
- person-centred decision making
- professional accountability.
How you learn
Teaching is led by academics and specialist clinicians and delivered through six fortnightly sessions lasting two hours each. The first session is delivered on campus and the rest are delivered online. Additional learning content is available within the virtual learning environment and engagement with the guided and self-directed learning tasks can be on your own schedule.
How you are assessed
For the non-accredited route there is no assessment.
For the accredited route you complete a 20-minute presentation on a case study of a client in your workplace who presents with frailty. This is designed to enhance your ability to articulate decision-making processes to other members of the multidisciplinary team.
Entry requirements
Entry requirements
You should be working with frail older people in a health or social care environment.
Access to IT resources and a stable internet connection is essential to engage with online sessions and learning materials. These include e-books and YouTube, plus online engagement tools such as Slido and Padlet. Access to, and the ability to use PowerPoint and other Microsoft Windows software is essential.
