Learning Outcomes:
On completion the candidate will be able to:
• Describe the concept of frailty in ageing adults and differentiate the various methods for identifying frailty in ageing adults.
• Identify the relevance and importance of the assessment of frailty in healthcare settings.
• Apply the principles of comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) to the management of frailty and geriatric syndromes.
• Critically discuss the impact of advancing disease on the individual, the family, on caregivers, and on society.
• Critically evaluate a range of contemporary non-pharmacological and pharmacological and approaches to managing co-morbidities.
• Identify a range of evidence-based interventions to support family/non-professional caregivers.
• Implement nurse facilitated discharge planning for discharge to home with community supports (CIT rehabilitation) or to a long-term residential care setting.
Indicative Module Content:
Frailty in ageing adults
Assessment of frailty
Comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA)
Impact of advancing disease on the individual, the family, on caregivers, and on society.
Non-pharmacological and pharmacological and approaches to managing co-morbidities.
Interventions to support family/non-professional caregivers.
Discharge planning