News and updates from today's Transforming Acute Care for Older People Living with Frailty conference, focusing on the important issue of transforming acute care for people with frailty: improving the quality of care for people with frailty and supporting them to stay out of hospital during the Covid-19 pandemic and beyond. Redesign of acute frailty services is crucial to meeting increasing demand and improving the quality of life for older people.
Chair’s Welcome and Introduction
Dr David Hunt
Clinical Director for Medicine for Older People & Neurosciences
Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Changing care systems for people with frailty during and beyond the pandemic
Professor Adam Gordon
Professor of the Care of Older People
University of Nottingham
• frailty: national update and recommendations from Getting it Right First Time in Geriatrics
• agreeing care standards: the need for a co-ordinated frailty strategy
• developing an effective frailty system
• identifying frailty early through systematic assessment
• effective use of data, leadership within the new structures, clinical quality improvement within hospital trusts and quality improvement at the interface with the community
Frailty, Delirium and Coronavirus
Dr Mani Santhaa Krishnan Consultant in Old Age/Liaison Psychiatry,
Senior Clinical Director MHSOP Trust-wide; Chair Faculty of Old Age
Psychiatry Royal College of Psychiatrists Associate Dean & Regional
Delirium Lead Health Education England NE
Eleni Fixter, Consultant in Old Age/Liaison Psychiatry, Tees, Esk and
Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust
• delirium and frailty
• spreading the message that delirium is preventable
• ensuring management interventions tailored to the individual based on the results of an assessment for clinical factors contributing to delirium
• delirium, frailty and coronavirus