Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment Toolkit for Primary ...

Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA) is a process of care comprising a number of steps. Initially, a multidimensional holistic assessment of an older person considers health and wellbeing and leads to the formulation of a plan to address issues which are of concern to the older person (and their family and carers when relevant).

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Fit for Frailty - British Geriatrics Society

• Older people should be assessed for the presence of frailty during all encounters with health and social care professionals. Gait speed, the timed-up-

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QUALITY CARE FOR OLDER PEOPLE WITH URGENT …

Quality Care for Older people with Urgent & Emergency Care needs “Silver Book” 2 Foreword The increase in the number of older people has …

MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION (MMSE)

MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION (MMSE) Patient's name: Hospital number: ORIENTATION REGISTRATION ATTENTION AND CALCULATION RECALL LANGUAGE COPYING Year Month Day Date Time

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Barthel ADL Index

2 Guidelines for the Barthel Index of Activities of Daily Living General • The Index should be used as a record of what a patient does, NOT as a record of what a patient could do. • The main aim is to establish degree of independence from any …

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Abbreviated Mental Test Score - British Geriatrics Society

Abbreviated Mental Test Score The abbreviated mental test score (AMTS) was introduced by Hodkinson in 1972 to rapidly assess elderly patients for the possibility of dementia

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Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment Toolkit for Primary ...

communication skills in addition to their clinical knowledge to ensure purposeful and timely assessment. Therefore co-ordination of CGA can be undertaken by any member of the health and social care team but is best carried out by someone the patient and their family trusts and with whom they can have open and sensitive discussions.

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The Edmonton Frail Scale - British Geriatrics Society

The Edmonton Frail Scale NAME : _____ d.o.b. : _____ DATE : _____ Frailty domain Item 0 point 1 point 2 points

Medicines and Falls in Hospital - British Geriatrics Society

mechanism leading to a fall is one or more of: ... entirely on the kidney for their elimination and can accumulate in dehydration or renal failure. Fosinopril, Trandolapril, Quinapril Excreted by liver and kidney . Symptomatic hypotension in systolic cardiac failure

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Clinical Frailty Scale*

5 Mildly Frail – These people often have more evident slowing, and need help in high order IADLs (finances, transportation, heavy housework, medica-tions). Typically, mild frailty progressively impairs shopping and walking outside alone, meal preparation and housework. 6 Moderately Frail – People need help with all

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Polypharmacy and medicines optimisation - King's Fund

Multi-morbidity and ageing as driving factors 13 ... Figure 8 Selected co-morbidities in people with coronary heart disease, diabetes, COPD or cancer in the most affluent and most deprived areas of Scotland 16. ... adding to the complexity of implementing appropriate

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The role of registered nurses in residential aged care ...

The multi-faceted role of the RN in RACFs underpins the provision of ... reduced patient morbidity and mortality (Aiken et al. 2014; Duffield et al. 2011). Similar scenarios could be replicated in the aged care environment. As a key health protection measure for frail older people ... the complexity of care needs they manage, this is a ...

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WRITING A RESEARCH PROPOSAL AND A RESEARCH …

•Provides co-investigators or peers with a living and ... at multiple locations (in the case of a multi-centre study), to carry out the study in exactly the same way; Purposes contd •Acts as a record and reminder for the research team and collaborators of the initial project aims, stated ... mortality and morbidity).

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