A new paper examining issues of social frailty, published by THIS (The Healthcare Improvement Studies) Institute at the University of Cambridge, examines the long term issues sepsis survivors can face with recovery.
The team’s research shows that social frailty – financial strain, reduced social contact, treatment burden & family challenges – plays a major role but that there’s currently almost no support or care.
Published by Professor Joanne McPeake and colleagues, the paper is the next part of a study funded in 2023 by Sepsis Research FEAT into the long term outcomes of sepsis.
The paper concludes that ‘Future research should explore how social frailty could be managed across the recovery trajectory, including how services could be implemented in clinical practice.’ Sepsis Research FEAT looks forward to seeing the impact on post-sepsis care of implementation of the recommendations made via this paper
