• NHS Education for Scotland (NES): falls, frailty and bone health

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    A third of people over 65 and half of people over 80, will fall at least once a year (UK Research and Innovation 2024). NES has launched a new elearning module which focuses on the prevention and management of falls, frailty, and bone health.

    Falls, frailty and bone health

    This informed level module focusses on the prevention and management of falls, frailty, and bone health. It provides essential knowledge and skills for all health and social care staff seeking to improve their awareness. It will help you to play a frontline role in reducing the number and severity of falls.

    elearning: Falls, frailty, and bone health: prevention and management

    Requires a login: register on the Turas website

  • Health Improvement Scotland resources

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    The purpose of Healthcare Improvement Scotland is to enable the people of Scotland to experience the best quality of health and social care. Its broad work programme supports health and social care services to improve.

    The website hosts a range of information and resources related to frailty.

    Search Results for “frailty” – Healthcare Improvement Scotland

  • British Geriatrics Society (BGS) Frailty Hub

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    This page brings together articles, national guidelines and best practice relevant to frailty and is frequently reviewed and updated.

    The hub consists of seven areas:

    • Introduction to frailty - where you can find out what frailty is, and how it can be diagnosed and managed
    • Frailty in specific settings - resources on frailty in settings including care home medicine, emergency medicine, frailty units and community, as well as specialised services such as diabetes, heart failure and oncology
    • Setting up and developing frailty services - useful information to help you set up a frailty service, with examples of best practice, service development, and business cases
    • Frailty and the NHS - an area of the hub focusing on the national picture where you can find publications by NHS England, NICE, GIRFT, NHS RightCare and NHS Benchmarking
    • Education and training resources - links to a new frailty elearning module
    • Research - latest research on frailty published by the BGS journal Age and Ageing
    • Patient information - information for patients about frailty

    Frailty Hub | British Geriatrics Society

  • Video: falls education group

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  • Ageing and frailty: standards for the care of older people (HIS)

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    These standards update and replace Healthcare Improvement Scotland’s Standards of Care for Older People in Hospital (2015). They apply in all settings where older people living with frailty receive health and social care. They provide a benchmark for progress towards nationally consistent integrated frailty services that put people and their rights at the centre.

    Ageing and Frailty Standards November 2024

  • Groningen Frailty Index (GFI)

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    The GFI is a validated, 15-item questionnaire with a score range from zero to fifteen that assesses the physical, cognitive, social, and psychological domains.

    Groningen Frailty Index form

  • Frailty improvement and implementation programme: change package

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    This change package is for teams in health and social care partnerships (HSCPs), GP practices, and acute care settings interested in frailty improvement work. It is designed to support teams to improve the experience of access to person centered, coordinated health and social care, for people living with or at the risk of frailty.

    Frailty improvement and implementation programme: change package | Right Decisions