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Assessment and Management of Frailty

This specialist module is designed to enhance clinical practice through a comprehensive understanding of frailty and its impact on patient care.

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This module gives you the knowledge and skills needed to facilitate change in the quality of care provided to an increasing population of frail older adults and other patients with frailty.

Key Features:

  • Focus on improving care quality for frail older adults and patients with frailty.
  • Core themes: complex co-morbidity, uncertain prognosis, end-of-life care, rehabilitation, and social support needs.
  • Additional topics: falls and mobility, acute deterioration, nutrition and hydration, cognition and safeguarding, oral health, continence, pain management, and polypharmacy.
  • Hydra Simulation for Interprofessional Education.

Start Date:

  • The programme welcomes a new cohort each February.

We’ll cover the core themes of frailty, including complex co-morbidity, uncertain prognosis, end of life requirements, rehabilitation, and social support needs in both community and hospital settings. Other key areas you’ll study will include falls and mobility, managing acute deterioration, nutrition and hydration, cognition and safeguarding, oral health, continence, pain management, and polypharmacy.

Lectures and seminars are delivered by specialist practitioners and university lecturers who bring real-world and academic experience to the sessions. Teaching takes place through face-to-face classroom sessions. You will also be expected to actively participate by joining class discussions and sharing your own experiences.

This module is suitable for Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Registered Nurses, Paramedics and Pharmacists.

You will complete two assessments: a 15-minute presentation on a particular frailty problem and analyse its associated physiological changes, and a 3000-word assignment that demonstrates a critical evaluation of the policies and evidence-based interventions that influence frailty care. The choice of topic should be related to your area of practice.

Support is provided by the core members of the module team, and you will be assigned an academic supervisor who will support you with your academic work.

  • Library services
  • IT service
  • Academic supervision
  • Student support services including study skills if required

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If you have any further questions, or you'd like to apply for this course, please contact the module team:

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