Our Community of Practice explores the challenges and opportunities of Ageing Well and frailty. We bring together experts, from across the systems, which are willing to learn, share and push the boundaries of knowledge about older people their lives, wants and care needs. The Community of Practice is a cross-sector group, exploring care in all aspects of Ageing Well through purposeful conversations, allowing the learning and dissemination of knowledge to spread into local places to aid care delivery and services developments.
Develop a strategic voice and vision for ageing well and frailty.
Drive transformation in ageing well and preventing frailty and supporting people, families and communities living with frailty.
Collate and curate a body of knowledge around ageing well and frailty, which can be shared across the region and more widely.
They will achieve this by:
Sharing and learning from existing knowledge.
Identifying knowledge and care gaps, priorities and common challenges .
Generating and sharing new knowledge and new ways of working; better tools and processes; and innovative solutions to common challenges.
Community of Practice presentations including video recordings from previous meetings can be downloaded below:
February 2024 (recording link) – Presentation: Improving Quality of Life, Functional Capacity, and strength in Older Adult; St Martin’s Lifting Cushion Pilot; Gateshead Falls Car: the journey so far
October 2023 (recording link) – Presentation: Supporting Virtual Wards to be Inclusive for Older People with Dementia, Delirium, and Mental Health Needs
June 2023 (recording link) – Challenge North Tyne 2023 – Supporting people in later life at home, work and play
February 2023(recording link) – Presentations: Care Home Evaluation Project: Vitalerter (falls prevention/turn alerts); Improving recording of the Clinical Frailty Scale by physiotherapists in older people’s medicine: a quality improvement project; Whole Truth, Untruth and Lies: do they have a place in practice?
October 2022 (recording link) – Presentations: North East Ambulance Service ‘Measuring frailty and its association with key outcomes in the ambulance setting: a cross sectional observation study; Pilot evaluation and further development of a tool to inform levels of care provision need for residents with dementia; Measuring frailty and its association with key outcomes in the ambulance setting: a cross sectional observational study and NEAS ‘Frailty Case Finding’
June 2022 (recording link) – Rehabilitation for those living with Dementia, SMI and individuals experiencing delirium – now, the future and possibilities
August 2021 (recording link) – Mapping of policies and innovations to develop new models of health and social care that support people in later life in North East England and South East Scotland
