Resources
on Frailty
Supporting professionals to learn more about frailty and develop their own and their teams’ competencies.
Supporting older people living with frailty to talk about advance care planning
The CLaD 2.0 study co-designed two leaflets to support older people living with advancing frailty to talk about and engage with advance care planning. The resources were created based on findings from the original study, a co-production session with unpaid carers and unpaid carer representatives of people living with frailty across London and the South East, and refined with patient and public representatives. The aim of these resources are to support older people living with frailty, and their unpaid carers, to talk about what matters most to the older person, so that the person can plan their care – both now and in the future. There are two leaflets:
- Leaflet one is designed for older people themselves FINAL_OP_UoS_Living_Well_Dying_Well_01.10.24 (1).pdf
- Leaflet two is designed for unpaid carers of older people living with frailty. FINAL_Carer_UoS_Living_Well_Dying_Well_01.10.24 (1).pdf
Please do let us know if you have any feedback on these resources by emailing sarah.combes@surrey.ac.uk
Supporting unpaid carers
This resource was created with participants from the Dual Experts study and refined through a co-production session with unpaid carers and unpaid carer representatives across London and the South East, to share practical tips from experienced unpaid carers for older people. We hope that this resource will support unpaid carers to be proactive in considering some of the things that can arise when caring for an older person and ways they might approach these.
UoS_Top Tips for Caring for an Older Person_V4_logos_16.07.24.pdf
Useful frailty resources
- NHS England frailty resources
- Identifying and assessing frailty
- Tools that can be used to explore and measure what matters to older people living with frailty
- A range of useful resources, including a set of downloadable infographics about living longer
- Report looking at the state of ageing in 2022
- Link to Hospice UK's Extending Frailty Care programme that includes lots of resources and key links
Visual minutes
Improving care for older people
This visual minute brings together the thoughts and experiences of older people with severe frailty, family members and friends, health and social care staff, voluntary sector professionals and unpaid carers in regards to what they believe can improve care for older people living with severe frailty.
Holistic assessment
This visual minute brings together the key elements unpaid carers and unpaid carer representatives believe matter most to the holistic assessment of older people living with advancing frailty.
