Recognizing frailty: An introduction for health care professionals
Free Online Course
The free online course aims to offer:
1. A comprehensive perspective about frailty and its relation to health care
2. Inform about frailty screening and frailty assessment.
3. Provide support about diet and physical activity promotion.

The next course starts on November 26th 2018
Target participants
People working with older adults, including professionals working in community care, residential care, nurses, general practitioners, social care and occupational health. The course is an introduction to the topic of frailty.
No specific qualifications are required to attend the course.
Coordinator
Team
Partners
The FACET project includes partners that represent the primary end-users, including hospitals in Spain and leading researchers on frailty (e.g. Prof. Leocadio Rodrigues Manas), combined with institutions with solutions in the area of frailty assessment and monitoring.

Program
The goal of the course is to improve the awareness about frailty, functional ability and well-being of older adults and provide professionals with the knowledge to screen or assess for the presence of frailty.
The free online course intends to provide different tools for the assessment and management of the frailty status of the elderly people and to sensitise for early identification of those at risk for frailty, as a result of functional decline associated with ageing.
The courses will run on an Open edX Platform of Instituto Superior Técnico - University of Lisbon.
Participants will have opportunity to attend the course in three different periods, i.e., the same course will be available in three periods throughout the year - August, October and November 2017.
Learning outcomes
- Knowledge of the ageing process-related with functional decline.
- Knowledge of the main geriatric syndromes, including disability, co-morbidity and frailty.
- Knowledge about the relationship of functional decline with increased medical care, hospitalisation, and institutionalisation.
- Identification of risk factors for frailty, falls and functional decline.
- Knowledge of the tools available to screen for frailty.
- Knowledge of the tools available to assess for frailty
- Knowledge of solutions that can assist the older adult in assessment/monitoring/prevention /rehabilitation of frailty,
Contact
Marco Arkesteijn
maa36@aber.ac.uk
+44(0) 1970 62 8559