Primary health care professionals’ experiences of using the Tilburg Frailty Indicator: an interview study

Nine interviews were performed. The PHCPs experiences were expressed in one theme: <i>TFI is useful and feasible but requires time and knowledge</i>. TFI was described as easy to use and providing a holistic assessment of the patient. Using the TFI was time-consuming but provided useful information for care planning. In conclusion, the TFI could be a clinically useful tool to assess frailty in PHC. The result indicates a need of educational efforts to increase knowledge about frailty and a need for primary health care to adjust to older people in order to allow care visits to include both assessment and management of frailty.