Being Your Best:an innovative co-designed

approach to frailty

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Judy LowthianPhD MPH BAppSc(SpPath)

Head of Research

Bolton Clarke Research Institute

Frailty Fulcrum

https://frailty360.org/pages/frailty-overview

Why co-design?

Evidence that

• frailty and pre-frailty are modifiable

• prescription ≠ compliance

• collaborating with end-users to clarify problems and develop solutions can be the difference between making something that works – and something that doesn’t

Being Your Best

• holistic approach to mitigate the effects of frailty and hopefully slow down trajectory of decline of frailty

FRAILTY

‘Need a combination of activities’

‘Not capable of doing things they

are used to… need help’

‘Losing independence… safety at risk’

‘Not being able to think clearly like

you used to’

‘Brittle…delicate… become withdrawn

and isolated’

‘Fear is frailty’s friend’

‘move it and use it,or you lose it’

‘staying connected…social support’

‘We need to raise awareness…and

be proactive’‘What else can

we call it?’

‘Thinking, memory, word puzzles, card games’

‘Eating properly’

‘Motivation is the hardest part’

Mobility & ExerciseMoving Well

Cognitive StimulationThinking Well

Nutritional SupportEating Well

Social SupportConnecting Well

Being Your Best

Being Your Best Team Partners

Bolton Clarke Monash Health, Deakin UniversityProf Judy Lowthian Prof Alison Hutchinson

Dr. Maja Green Cabrini Health

A/Prof. Liz Cyarto Dr Michael Rose, A/Prof Katie Walker,

Dr Claudia Meyer Prof Leanne Boyd, Mrs Fran Sutherland

Ms Fleur O’Keefe Alfred Health

A/Prof. De Villiers Smit, A/Prof. Harvey Newnham

Funder:

Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF)

jlowthian@boltonclarke.com.au