ABSTRACT

Frailty is a common clinical syndrome that predisposes older adults to an increased risk of adverse health outcomes. With population aging, this will become an increasing challenge for the healthcare services; therefore, different models of healthcare training and provision are required to address these increasing demands. In Ireland, the National Clinical Programme for Older People (NCPOP) has partnered with The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA) to deliver the National Frailty Education Programme. This demonstrates an innovative way in which evidence-based longitudinal research can be translated into clinical education and practice to improve patient care, following a Knowledge to Action (KTA) process. To the authors’ knowledge, it is the first time that a longitudinal research study such as TILDA has employed such methods of translation and therefore, this collaboration could serve as an international model of translation and implementation for frailty and other areas of clinical priority.

摘要

虚弱是一种常见的临床综合征，它会使老年人更容易出现不良健康结果的风险。随着人口老龄化，这将成为医疗保健服务面临的越来越大的挑战；因此，需要不同的医疗保健培训和提供模式来满足这些不断增长的需求。在爱尔兰，国家老年人临床计划 (NCPOP) 与爱尔兰老龄化纵向研究 (TILDA) 合作实施国家脆弱教育计划。这展示了一种创新的方式，可以将基于证据的纵向研究转化为临床教育和实践，以改善患者护理，遵循知识到行动 (KTA) 流程。据作者所知，