Eligibility criteria
or terminal illness, fracture
Participants were recruited from orthopaedic services in five National Health Service (NHS) hospitals in England providing hip fracture surgery. We recruited adults who previously lived in the community (not institutional care), aged 60 years and over, who had undergone hip fracture surgery, could nominate an informal caregiver and provided both patient–caregiver consent to participate. Where a patient–participant did not have capacity, agreement from a consultee was sought.We excluded people who had acute, unstable or terminal illness or were expected by the clinical team to be discharged to a care home (residential or nursing). Caregivers were ineligible if they had an Abbreviated Mental Test Score (AMTS)