Frailty with Claire Norman

Claire is a registered Nurse and Paramedic working as a frailty
coordinator at Brook Green Medical Centre, London (HAFP
Primary Care Network) with Dr Anna Wilson (Lead GP) and Dr Emily
Eve as part of a frailty team. She also sits on the College of
Paramedics Committee for primary and urgent care specialist
interest group. Claire works as a part community matron as well
as a registered paramedic and receives referrals to both support
and link the patient into appropriate care pathways. 


In this episode Claire and Caroline discuss the definition of
frailty, contributing factors and the sequelae of neurological
disorders contributing to frailty. Clare also discusses baselines
of health and the phenotype model and the cumulative deficit
model. Caroline also talks about the fall decision tool and
frailty syndrome.


Please enjoy this episode with an insightful guest. 





For more on frailty please see the links below:





https://www.bgs.org.uk/ British Geriatric Society


https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-mdtea-podcast/id1073719746 MDTea
Podcast


https://www.rcem.ac.uk/ Royal College of Emergency Medicine