Frailty and Dementia Level 6 (Health CPD)

This 20-credit, Level 6 module has been developed in the light of 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. Undertaking this module will enable 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 people to live well to the end of life, making quality of life a priority, right up to the end of life. Key topics and areas of practice addressed within the module include a critical consideration of frailty, risk assessments and falls, effective communication an