Gransthebest
Can I ask what a frailty assessment is for?
Is it for a disability benefit or a health check up.Ive never heard of this.Thanks.
This is from the NHS:
"What does the new frailty identification requirement in the GP contract mean for general practice?
General practice is required to:
Identify all patients aged 65 and over who may be living with moderate or severe frailty;
For patients identified as living with severe frailty (around 3% of over 65s), undertake an annual medicines review, a falls risk assessment, if clinically appropriate, and promotion of the enriched Summary Care Record (SCR);
For patients identified as living with moderate frailty (around 12% of over 65s), consider undertaking a medicines review, a falls risk assessment if clinically appropriate, and promotion of the enriched SCR"
www.england.nhs.uk/ourwork/clinical-policy/older-people/frailty/efi/#what-does-the-new-frailty-identification-requirement-in-the-gp-contract-mean-for-general-practice
The guidelines emphasise that it's not a diagnostic tool, but to identify risk (if that makes sense).
It's to screen all patients over 65 for risk of falls, etc. and then to diagnose individual cases. It couldn't be used on its own for eligibility of disability benefits.
It's calculated by adding up risk factors already on the patient's record plus some additional screening questions.
