general FRAILTY REFERENCE DOCUMENTS and web-links

• Journal of Patient Experience “Analysis of the Experience-Based Design Feedback Data on a National Scale”, November 2020.

• Hospital Wide CGA, British Geriatric Society, August 2018 supported by the paper Development and validation of a Hospital Frailty Risk Score focusing on older people in acute care settings using electronic hospital records: an observational study, co-written by Professor Simon Conroy at the University of Leicester.

• Making our health and care systems fit for an ageing population, The Kings Fund 2014

• Finding Frailty - system benefits of frailty identification, Dr Dawn Moody September 2017

• Managing patients with frailty: a guide for non-Geriatricians. Wrexham Maelor Hospital.

• Frailty and anesthesia – risks during and post-surgery, Local and Regional Anesthesia 2018

• Major trauma in the elderly: Frailty decline and patient experience after injury, Trauma 2019

Shared decision making

Shared decision making ensures that individuals are supported to make decisions that are right for them.  It is a collaborative process through which a clinician supports a patient to reach a decision about their treatment. There are a number of resources available on the NHS England website.

Other resources are listed below:

• Framework for Decision-making for Older Adults with Multiple Chronic Conditions: Boyd et al, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2019