Providing acute care at home to older adults with frailty: nurses’ experiences of working with a hospital at home service

Providing acute care at home for older people, who often have complex health needs and frailty, can prevent hospital-associated harms. This requires an appropriately skilled and experienced multi-professional workforce. This article describes how a newly established consultant practitioner-led (nurse and physiotherapist) hospital at home model in Wiltshire, England, provides acute care for older adults with frailty. The authors also detail the experiences of nurses at varying levels of practice who work in the service, based on their responses to an informal questionnaire. Their experiences illustrate the potential of acute care hospital at home services to support community-based nurses' professional development and career progression.