The primary aim of the Cognitive Frailty Interdisciplinary Network (CFIN) is to promote collaborative, multidisciplinary research that moves along the pathway from basic laboratory studies through to having a real impact on lives.
The focus is on research that addresses the challenge of alleviating the development of age-related cognitive frailty and related reduced healthspan, (years, or proportion of one’s life spent in good health) and poor quality of life. Cognitive frailty is defined as a variable condition characterised by simultaneous presence of physical frailty and age-related cognitive impairment, but the exclusion of existing dementia.

It is funded by the UKRI (BBSRC/MRC collaboration) and was co-designed by: Pr Carol Holland (PI) , Dr Susan Broughton (co-I), Dr Alexandre Benedetto (founding member), Pr Alan Gow (co-I), Pr Sally Fowler-Davis (co-I), Lyne Corner (co-I), Charlotte Clarke (co-I), and Dr Irundika Dias (co-I).