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This centre is designed as an evolving online handbook and practical learning environment rather than a collection of isolated calculators. It follows the older person's journey across home, community, urgent care, hospital, rehabilitation, care homes and palliative care.
The organising idea
Start with the person's usual state and what matters to them. Identify acute change. Use multidimensional assessment. Treat reversible problems. Protect function. Rehabilitate where possible. Coordinate care across settings. Introduce palliative approaches when burden, reserve and goals indicate they are needed — often alongside rehabilitation rather than instead of it.
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Core areas
Frailty & CFS
Understand frailty as a dynamic state of reduced reserve and learn to use the Clinical Frailty Scale as a judgement-supported tool.
Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment
Move from a score to a multidimensional, coordinated plan spanning medical, functional, psychological and social domains.
Rehabilitation & recovery
Protect mobility, function and participation; recognise deconditioning; measure recovery and support a realistic new baseline.
Community & neighbourhood care
Proactive care, urgent community response, community hospitals, care homes and continuity around the person.
Palliative frailty
Recognise transition, hold uncertainty, align treatment with goals and integrate comfort-focused care with ongoing active treatment where appropriate.
Assessment tools
CFS, HABAM, PFFS/PFFS Acute and a guided CGA workspace, with original authorised reference materials available now.
The older-person journey
Living well / resilience
Emerging frailty
Acute change
Recovery / new baseline
Advanced / palliative frailty
Current authoritative context
NHS England · Best practice guide for NHS frailty pathways (2026)Open current guidance ↗
Welsh Government · Proactive care for adults with complex needs and older people living with frailty in the communityOpen Welsh guidance ↗
NICE NG56 · Multimorbidity: clinical assessment and managementOpen NICE guidance ↗
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ClinicalEdu separates authoritative sources, validated instruments and its own educational explanations.
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Clinical content is version-controlled and reviewed as source guidance changes.
