Geriatric resources for health professionals

Clinical frailty screening tool

The Clinical Frailty Scale developed by Professor Kenneth Rockwood is Queensland’s standard frailty screening tool.

It can help you assess:

• the level of frailty of your patient
• the likely length of their stay in hospital
• whether they’ll need to enter a residential aged care facility
• adverse outcomes such as harm or death.

Emergency care for older patients

This set of 4 training modules can help you assess and care for older patients in the emergency department.

Care of the older person in an emergency training modules (PDF 3493 kB)

Improvement project

Geriatric Emergency Department Intervention (GEDI) project

Traumatic physical injuries in older adults

A guide to emergency assessment and ongoing care for older adults with traumatic physical injuries.

Trauma in older adults clinical practice framework (PDF 413 kB)

Residential aged care

Clinical pathways

Our residential aged care clinical pathways can help you make decisions about treatment and care for people in residential aged care facilities.

Facility support services

The Residential Aged Care Facility Support Service (RaSS) helps health professionals and GPs care for residential aged care patients.

They offer support with:

• IV therapies
• assessing and planning your patient’s care
• nursing and discharge for patients staying in hospital
• options for giving emergency care in the residential aged care facility
• referrals to specialist and community health services, including telehealth services.

You can contact your nearest HHS or read the following resources to learn more about this service.

• RaSS implementation toolkit for residential aged care facilities (PDF 1731 kB)
• RaSS information for health professionals (PDF 285 kB)
• RaSS information for GPs (PDF 284 kB)
• RaSS information for aged care patients and families (PDF 433 kB)

You can also do online training to help you manage the acute needs of residents on the iLearn website.