Lay summary
Frailty identifies those at risk of adverse outcomes including disability, hospitalisations and quality of life. Those living with frailty have high health and social care needs and frequently present to healthcare providers. Evidence suggests Māori and Pasifika people have a greater risk of frailty.
Health services must be aligned to the needs of older people. The KARE project provides nurse-led comprehensive assessment and coordination, self-management and goal setting for frail kaumātua/older adults within primary care. We ultimately wish to develop this further and design a multidimensional research programme to prevent frailty progression and improve health outcomes for those living with frailty.
This current application will inform a future research programme by developing a co-designed core outcome set (COS) and initiating stakeholder engagement. COS are recommended in research, ensuring standardised outcomes are used, thereby reducing heterogeneity between studies. Co-design of COS ensures research outcomes to be measured are those important to kaumātua/older adults.