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About this guide
This guide brings together useful information, tools and recommendations to support healthcare professionals in identifying, diagnosing and managing frailty in people living with HIV.
Who's it for?
It is primarily aimed at those working within HIV services, but could be useful for anyone who delivers care to those living with HIV, including but not limited to:
HIV consultants
General practitioners
Geriatricians
Physiotherapists
Occupational therapists
Pharmacists
Nurses, including community nurses and matrons
Healthcare assistants
Service planners and commissioners
Why is it needed?
By 2028, more than 50% of people living with HIV in the UK will be aged age 50 years or above1.
There is currently no consensus on how services should identify and diagnose frailty in people living with HIV. But, with the number of older adults living with HIV increasing, frailty is an issue already affecting this population.
Providing you and your colleagues with information and practical support now aims to equip you with the skills, knowledge and confidence to start identifying and managing this growing challenge. And, if we all gather and share evidence of the prevalence and outcomes, we’ll be better placed to optimise models of care in the future.
Within this guide, we have developed the FRAIL in HIV framework. This builds off the FRAIL scale that is recommended by EACS to be used as a screening tool for frailty in people living with HIV (though not yet validated in this population). As such the framework has not been validated in any population and is not endorsed by any professional organisation.
Please note that throughout this guide, there are a number of external resources highlighted which may be useful as further reading or support tools. Gilead are not responsible for the content of these external sites.
Providing you and your colleagues with information and practical support now aims to equip you with the skills, knowledge and confidence to start identifying and managing this growing challenge. And, if we all gather and share evidence of the prevalence and outcomes, we’ll be better placed to optimise models of care in the future.
Within this guide, we have developed the FRAIL in HIV framework. This builds off the FRAIL scale that is recommended by EACS to be used as a screening tool for frailty in people living with HIV (though not yet validated in this population). As such the framework has not been validated in any population and is not endorsed by any professional organisation.
Please note that throughout this guide, there are a number of external resources highlighted which may be useful as further reading or support tools. Gilead are not responsible for the content of these external sites.
AWARENESS
Building awareness today means we don’t wait until someone living with HIV shows overt signs of frailty to address their risks
