Training & Business Development
John Pignone, Sales Director, Alliance Healthcare, pictured with award winner Jonathan Lloyd and Peter Rice (UCA-NI Chair)
THE HEALTH CENTRE PHARMACY Carrickfergus
with frailty’ ‘F
The Health Centre Pharmacy in Carrickfergus enjoys an excellent relationship with the community/voluntary sector, working closely with bodies such as the Mid & east Antrim Agewell Partnership (MeAAP). Together, the pharmacy and MeAAP have been developing through the IMPACTAgewell® Project, a multidisciplinary cooperative involving General Practice, the community pharmacy network, local council, Integrated Care Partnerships, primary and secondary care colleagues and commissioners.
All partners involved in the IMPACTAgewell® Project recognised the lack of knowledge around
railty is everybody‘s business and everybody should know what to do next when presented with a person living
older people living with frailty and the approach to calculating the ‘clinical frailty’ in older people.
Frailty has been defined as ‘a progressive age- related decline in physiological systems that results in decreased reserves of intrinsic capacity which confers extreme vulnerability to stressors and increases the risk of adverse health outcomes’ (World Health Organisation, 2019) but, in proactive cases, is preventable and recoverable.
At present, 16.3 per cent of older people over the age of 65 live with frailty in NI, and within Mid & east Antrim (MeA), 68 per cent live with a long- term health condition which limits their day-to-day activities (MeA Profile of Mid and east Antrim’s Ageing Population, 2018).
The team at The Health Centre Pharmacy acknowledged that, as community pharmacists,
healthcare professionals have regular contact - in most cases weekly or monthly - with older people and their carers in relation to medication and over-the-counter assistance.
It was therefore decided to jointly apply for Building Community Pharmacy Partnership funding to run ‘Healthy steps to Ageing’: a programme co-facilitated by The Health Centre Pharmacy Carrickfergus and MeAAP.
The project, the first of its kind, aimed to build the capacity of community pharmacists to recognise frailty using the Rockwood ‘Clinical Frailty scale’ and to instil in them the confidence to talk to older people within the pharmacy who are living with frailty. It was intended that the pharmacists would also support and build the knowledge of older people in terms of frailty and educate them
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