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Frazer Underwood Consultant Nurse for Older Peoples Services Associate Director of Nursing Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust Assessment Units for Older People What older people are we looking for? Care home admission deflections Selected long-term conditions Complex co-morbidity ‘Step-up’…but not step over the front door Day hospital assessment candidates ‘Sub-acute’ cases The Very Frail ? “The debate has centred on whether frailty should be defined purely in terms of biomedical factors or whether psychosocial factors should be included” Lally, F and Crome, P (2007) Understanding F