Inclusion criteria | Exclusion criteria |
Adults aged 50 years or older | Lacking mental capacity to provide informed consent |
Physician diagnosis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (in line with GOLD criteria [21]) | Unable to communicate verbally and respond to questions in written English and no interpreters to enable this |
Referred for outpatient pulmonary rehabilitation (in line with BTS guidance [7])# | Receiving specialist geriatric services involving a geriatric doctor in previous or upcoming month |
Rockwood Clinical Frailty Scale score of ≥5 [22] |
GOLD: Global initiative for chronic Obstructive Lung Disease; BTS: British Thoracic Society. #: during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic, this will be inclusive of standard pulmonary rehabilitation available, including supported home-based exercise programmes.