The pathophysiology of frailty is complex and multifactorial but nutrition is closely related to frailty.
This case study will support pharmacy professionals to explore how to integrate nutrition into pharmacy roles to support people in practice.
Learning outcomes
On completion of all aspects of this programme you should be able to:
- identify how you as a pharmacy professional can support a frail person to improve their nutritional status, medicines use and health including use of suitable tools
- describe how nutrition impacts specific health conditions
- explore how dysphagia affects people and their nutritional status
- link how frailty affects people and their nutritional status.
How to use this programme
You can access this e-learning programme using a web browser on any device. You will need to be connected to the internet while you work through it.
Learning intended for
- Pharmacists
- Pharmacy technicians
- Trainee pharmacists
