Care Certificate | Frailty Tier 2b | Multicomplexity

Multicomplexity
Produced in partnership with the London Clinical Networks, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and Wessex Academic Science Network.

About the session
This session looks at identifying frailty and when to escalate and will provide a greater understanding of falls, continence, hydration and nutrition, diabetes, alcohol and substance misuse. 

At the end of this session you will be able to:

• identify deterioration and when to escalate
• understand the importance of frailty syndromes in more detail and how they impact the individual on more than one level
• recognise the components of a Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA) and why it is the gold standard in frailty
• explain mobility and delirium and cognitive changes in the mind
• demonstrate an understanding of falls, continence, hydration and nutrition, alcohol and substance misuse in relation to frailty