Ruth E. Hubbard
Masonic Chair of Geriatric Medicine, The University of Queensland, Australia
Masonic Chair of Geriatric Medicine, The University of Queensland, Australia
Ruth E. Hubbard is a Consultant Geriatrician at the Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane and the Masonic Chair in Geriatric Medicine at the University of Queensland. She is currently supervising 6 clinicians undertaking PhDs as well as numerous student projects. In the last 5 years, she has has generated $19.9M in grant income: including as CIA on the recent MRFF Dementia Ageing and Aged Care Mission ($5M), a Centre for Research Excellence in Frailty ($2.5M), an Ideas Grant ($1.6M) and the NHMRC Targeted Call for Frailty Research ($1.5M).
The Challenges Ahead - Frailty, Where to Next?
Frailty has been criticised as the new cloak of ageism, a word perceived as pejorative by older people and care-givers, and a label which is being used to ration care. The literature is replete with studies reporting that frail older people are at great risk of adverse outcomes but fewer studies focus on understanding how to prevent frailty or how frailty should be managed. This presentation will review whether the measurement of frailty can be used to underpin the fundamental goal of geriatric medicine - to improve processes of care for older people so that they can attain outcomes that are important to them.
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