This Toolkit is a central hub for Frailty and Dementia resources for practitioners.
This Toolkit brings together resources, tools, advice and guidance and best practice for practitioners into one location. It is a work-in progress that will be added to over time.
We welcome all feedback to the Toolkit and suggestions for content you would like to see in the future.
If you are aware of any changes in guidance or new updates that are missing from the Toolkit then please let us know. Please contact glicb.ageingwell@nhs.net to get in touch.
Frailty
The British Geriatric Society define frailty as ‘Frailty is a distinctive health state related to the ageing process in which multiple body systems gradually lose their in-built reserves’.
Frailty is not a disease, but is a set of symptoms.
Frailty toolkit
Dementia
Dementia is the loss of cognitive functioning (thinking, remembering and reasoning) to such an extent that it interferes with a person’s daily life and activities. Some people with dementia experience alterations in sensory perception (such as hallucinations); some cannot control their emotions and their personalities may change.
Dementia ranges in severity from the mildest stage, when it is just beginning to affect a person’s functioning, to the most severe stage when the person will be completely dependent on others for basic activities of living.