AdvDip(CPD) Care of the Frail Adult (HE7)
Course Overview
This stand-alone course is for health and social care professionals with a specialist interest in frailty. It's beneficial to work in a relevant area of practice while studying this course, as it helps you transfer your knowledge of theory and apply it in practice. The module aims to deepen your understanding of frailty's physical and psychological impact on a person's health and wellbeing.We'll guide you to explore and evaluate evidence-based methods for detecting frailty and encourage you to consider appropriate theoretical principles as part of your decision-making process. Examining the theories surrounding frailty can help you understand the causes of frailty and the long-term impact frailty has on health and social care outcomes. We'll also support you in developing skills in frailty assessment and care planning for individuals living with frailty.
Highlights
- Our dedicated academic team brings extensive health and social care experience to the course content. Along with their passion for service excellence in health and social care settings, they're also currently engaged in highly relevant research, which means they can add valuable context and insight to your learning.
- The course is part of a professional development framework. You can use the credits you'll gain by completing the course successfully towards the University of Bolton's MSc in Health and Social Care.
- The course is designed to provide the flexibility to fit in with busy home and working lives.
- As you study this course, we'll encourage you to develop the skills, values and behaviours popular with employers. These include action planning, personal impact and confidence, self-awareness, social and ethical responsibility, respect, and commitment to quality.
Key Features
- The University of Bolton has been offering high-quality courses designed to meet the health and social care sector's needs for over 30 years, so we have the knowledge and experience to anticipate and respond to changes in the health and social care sector.
- We review the course curriculum regularly to ensure we include and apply contemporary theories.
- This programme is a product of a strong commitment by the University of Bolton and our practice partners to work collaboratively to develop high-quality education. It represents an opportunity to develop and maintain consistently high standards of care of the frail adult and end-of-life care across our healthcare economy.
- This collaborative programme brings together the expertise of highly regarded clinicians, educationalists, patients and carers, researchers and academics who are all specialists in their field, ensuring your experience is highly engaging, current and always centred around the pursuit of individualised care for frail adults.
- On successfully completing this course, you'll be awarded an Advanced Diploma of Continuing Professional Development in Care of the Frail Adult worth 20 credits at Level HE7.
Entry Requirements
- You must have an appropriate health and social care-related qualification (e.g. registered nurse, assistant practitioner, allied health professional, or paramedic).
- You should be working in a health and social care setting in a role where you can gain experience of working with frail adults.
- You may be required to attend an interview and/or provide a portfolio of work.
- If English isn’t your first language, you’ll also need IELTS 7.0 with no less than 6.5 in any band (or equivalent). We also accept a range of other English language qualifications – please visit our English Language Requirements web page for more details.
- Please note that this course is subject to the University's Fitness to Practice declaration.
Where changes are made to material information contained in this course description or a decision is taken to suspend a course between the offer of admissions and enrolment, we will inform applicants at the earliest possible opportunity and will outline the various options available to the applicant.
Career Opportunities
This course offers academic progression in the specialist field of adult frailty and end of life care.
Fees & Funding
Home/EU Fees
Home students starting this course in the first year will be required to pay a Home fee of £900 for the academic year 2025/26.
International Fees
Overseas students starting this course in the first year will be required to pay a Overseas fee of £900 for the academic year 2025/26.
Bursaries
Important note regarding tuition fees: EU nationals who meet residency requirements (have settled or pre-settled status) may be eligible for 'Home' fee status. If you do not meet these residency requirements, overseas fees will apply. Irish citizens living in the UK or Ireland will be eligible for 'Home' fee status under the Common Travel Area arrangement. Please read the student finance for EU students web page on www.gov.uk for information.
The fees for a student's course of study will be set for the normal duration of that course subject only to inflationary increases – measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI) recorded in March each year to take effect for subsequent start dates.
How to apply
Home Applicants
You may apply directly to the University using the University's online application form. Please select your chosen start date from the list below:
You should have to hand:
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Details of the educational establishments you attended and dates
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Your certificates for the qualifications you are using to gain entry to the course – you will need to enter the completion date and upload copies
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Details of any employment history including name, address, dates and role
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Personal statement – this can be either input into the relevant field or uploaded separately
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Details including e-mail addresses of two referees, at least one of which should be someone who can provide an academic reference
Please make sure any documents you wish to upload in support of your application are in pdf or jpeg format. Personal statements may be word documents.
Please ensure your data is correct at each stage of the application before you proceed to the next page. If you use the back button at any time during the application, you should check the validity of the data you have already input.
If you experience difficulties during the application process, contact the Admissions Team on 01204 903394 or admissions-team@bolton.ac.uk
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Apply online: University of Bolton APD Care of the Frail Adult HE7 - 22 September 2025
International Applicants
International applications are not possible for this course
As an international student you are not allowed to study this course because of the restrictions on your visa.
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Teaching & Assessment
During this module, you'll receive keynote lectures that introduce the topics. Each lecture will be pertinent to the topic being developed, and teaching will be through wider groups to enhance your understanding and decision-making about which care planning or interventions may enhance overall outcomes for the individual. This approach will ensure you encounter a wide range of case histories and complex issues. You'll receive individual tutorials aimed at meeting your individual learning needs, plus a mixture of methods, including individual and group exercises and discussion, and self-directed study.
As well as lectures and tutorials, a range of web-based resources will be made available to you via Moodle, the University's virtual learning environment, to aid you in achieving the knowledge requirement identified. E-learning is also provided via Moodle to enable you to undertake further study in a place and at a time that's convenient for you. This programme adopts a blended learning and teaching style, including online delivery and engagement where appropriate.
Regarding assessment, you'll need to complete a written assignment designed to test your understanding of frailty. This summative assessment will contribute to your final marks and allows you to demonstrate that you've met the learning outcomes for the course.
We also use formative assessment to help you learn, provide you with feedback and inform your development, though this will not count towards your final marks.
Modules
The modules listed below may be a mixture of compulsory and optional. You may not have the opportunity to study all the modules shown as part of the course.
- Care of the Frail Adult
Assessment methods
| Level | Assessment method |
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| Level 1 | Coursework 100% |
Learning Activities
| Level | Activity |
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| Level 1 | Guided independent study 82% Scheduled learning and teaching activities 18% |
The university will use all reasonable endeavours to deliver your course as described in its published material and the programme specification for the academic year in which you begin your course. The university considers changes to courses very carefully and the university will minimise any changes. Please be aware that our courses are subject to review on an ongoing basis and changes may be necessary due to legitimate staffing, financial, regulatory and academic reasons. The content of course modules and mode of associated assessments may be updated on an annual basis. This is to ensure that all modules are up-to-date and responsive to employment and sector needs. The published course material and the programme specification contain indicative ‘optional modules’ that may be subject to change due to circumstances outside of our control. For this reason, we cannot guarantee to run any specific optional module.
