Geriatric Services Hub — A Collaborative Frailty Management Model between The Hospital and Community Providers

ABSTRACT:

Background

Frailty is an important geriatric syndrome especially with ageing populations. Frailty can be managed or even reversed with community-based interventions delivered by a multi-disciplinary team. Innovation is required to find community frailty models that can deliver cost-effective and feasible care to each local context.

Objectives

We share pilot data from our Geriatric Service Hub (GSH) which is a novel frailty care model in Singapore that identifies and manages frailty in the community, supported by a hospital-based multi-disciplinary team.

Methods

We describe in detail our GSH model and its implementation. We performed a retrospective data analysis on patient characteristics, uptake, prevalence of frailty and sarcopenia and referral rates for multi-

SUBMITTER: Tan L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10111077 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature