Table 1 Participant eligibility criteria

Staff participants

Physiotherapists or occupational therapists working in the acute care setting with older people living with frailty, specifically carrying out rehabilitation assessments or programmes of rehabilitation.

Physiotherapists or occupational therapists involved in research studies exploring or testing rehabilitation potential, rehabilitation assessments or rehabilitation models of care for older people living with frailty.

Staff participants working in specialist stroke, end of life or fracture services.

Patient participants

Participants identified as frail using the Clinical Frailty Scale by staff delivering routine clinical care and those in receipt of rehabilitation assessments or programmes of rehabilitation

Participants able to give informed consent or if assessed and deemed to lack capacity consultee agreement from care givers or family member or appropriate consultee.

Participants in receipt of specialist stroke rehabilitation, specialist fracture care, specialist end of life or with a terminal diagnosis.

Participants with advanced care plans or directives, which stated that they did not wish to take part in research studies.

Patient participants found to lack capacity for whom an appropriate consultee could not be identified.

Family/carer participants

Carers or family members of patient participants in receipt of rehabilitation assessments or rehabilitation programmes.