Prevention is key to improving the quality of life. This aim is to reduce the number of people who become frail and to halt, slow or reduce the impact of frailty through early identification.
The identification of frailty can be both opportunistic, by assessing for frailty in people who present to health and care services, or population based, where a more systematic approach is taken to proactively identifying people who might be living with the condition.
Appropriate tools can be used to identify people with frailty such as
- Electronic Frailty Index (EFI)
- Cambridge Multi-morbidity Score
- John Hopkins Frailty Assessment Calculator
- Clinical review (Currently in development)
- Annual assessments (Currently in development)
- Self assessment (Currently in development)
- Proactive Care (Proactive care framework) (Currently in development)
Resources
FrailtyStrategy_FINALOct22.pdf
(Under development)