Frailty is a condition associated with aging that involves a decline in both physical and mental reserves, making individuals more vulnerable to a plethora health complications from minor stressors such as constipation, medication or change in environment.
Patients living with frailty have a reducing quality of life and increasing morbidity and mortality rates.
For example, a frail patient discharged from hospital has a 40 % mortality rate at 1 year compared to 15% for a non frail patient.
The British Society of Geriatric's states "The NHS does not support routine population screening for frailty because of the considerable cost of completing assessments".
Is this the level of care you want for your residents?
Frailty Care audits and experience would strongly suggest not. Patients frequently do not receive appropriate reviews, geriatric guidelines are ignored and a lack of continuity in care leads to mistakes, misinformation and poor standards of care.
Care of the elderly is seen as the last generalist specialty. We specialise in chronic disease management in the elderly and tailoring chronic disease management to match the needs & goals of the individual.
If we do need specialist input or imaging, we handle the onward referrals personally.
We work by improving physical, mental and social functioning to avoid adverse events;