Frailty Assessment and Management
Introduction
This module aims to provide you with the knowledge and skills required to assess, manage, and plan care for the frail older adult.
Designed for health care professionals who work across all care settings and undertake the assessment and management of this patient group.
Benefits of taking the course to the individual, the organisation and the patient
The module prepares you to assess, monitor and manage the frail patient in both acute and longer-term setting. Enhancing your assessment and clinical decision making and promoting independent practice to ensure that interventions are judiciously and rapidly applied to improve patient outcomes and provide cost effective services.
This module will benefit supporting organisations with Staff that can competently and efficiently assess frail older patients. Improving staff confidence and skill in managing these patients across a range of settings.
What you learn
The module aims to develop your critical reasoning skills and decision making, using a systematic approach when assessing the needs of a variety of the frail older adult and managing recognised frailty syndromes.
You will explore current literature so that interventions are evidence based and provide you with sound reasoning to underpin your practice. Reflectivity is encouraged which reinforces principle-based practices and ensures the transferability of knowledge and skills. Learning through a variety of face to face, asynchronous and simulated patient environments.
Unique or interesting features
This module provides you with the opportunity to develop and evaluate your specialist skills. Critiquing your developing role, reviewing current research, and synthesising this into the context of your work setting enables you to provide quality outcomes for each individual patient.
Fees and Funding for 2025/26
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To apply for a self-funded place, please complete and return the application form below:
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Entry requirements
- Relevant professional qualification
- Relevant work experience
- Normally an honours degree recognised in the UK, 2:2 or above in a related health care subject
The above must be evidenced in the applicants application form
This module is designed for health care professionals who work in the secondary care setting and undertake the initial assessment and management of patients who are acutely unwell.
This module can be taken as an elective component in the MSc Advanced Clinical Practice award (subject to validation).
If English is not your first language you will need an IELTS score of 6.5 with a minimum of 5.5 in all skills, or a recognised equivalent. If the your level of English language is currently below IELTS 6.5 we recommend you consider an appropriate Ï㽶ÊÓƵ Pre-sessional English course which will enable you to achieve the required level of English.
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Attendance
Delivery Method:
This module is delivered at our Collegiate Crescent Campus
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Provisional timetable
Next intake will run from October 2025 - February 2026.
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Assessment
Complete and critically evaluate a Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment, through the submission of an annotated critique of a Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment.
Successful completion of this module will earn you 30 level 7 credits
Further details
For further information please contact the module leader Anthony Walker - A.Walker1@shu.ac.uk