Frailty and Dementia Level 7 (Health CPD)

This 20-credit, Level 7 module is mapped against the learning criteria associated with NHSE’s Advanced Clinical Practice in Older People Curriculum Framework (2022) alongside their Advanced Practice Credential Specification Community Rehabilitation for Healthy Ageing (2022). The aim of these Curriculum Framework and Credential Specification documents is to support the delivery of high quality, evidence-based services across disciplines, which support and promote older people’s health, wellbeing, independence, and enablement in the context of complex health conditions such as dementia, frailty and their associated syndromes. This module has been developed alongside the Promoting Healthy Ageing module and when taken in conjunction with the Advanced Clinical Assessment module will enable fulfilment of the learning criteria of NHSE’s Framework and Credential Specification above.

Undertaking this module will enable health and care practitioners to provide assessments and interventions with older people using contemporary evidence-based approaches, such as the Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (British Geriatrics Society, 2020). Throughout the module there will be an emphasis on person-centred communication, empathic and holistic approaches to assessment, and the provision of inclusive and culturally sensitive interventions and care, built on a compassionate understanding of the older person’s lived experience. There is also an emphasis on developing services to enable older peop