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Community mental health nursing and dementia care

01 May 2004

Mental Health Practice

Book Review

In my view, there has been for a long time a lack of good readable books addressing the practical as well as the theoretical aspects of caring for a person with...

Mental health and older people

01 December 2002

Nursing Older People

Interactive

Members of the RCN Mental Health and Older People steering committee met with colleagues from the Nurses Working with Older People Forum in September to set our...

Congress fringe event

01 April 2003

Nursing Older People

RCN news

Complementing the care of older people Jointly presented by the Nurses Working with Older People Forum, the Mental Health and Older People Forum, and the...

Mental health and older people

01 May 2001

Nursing Older People

RCN news

Much has been written in recent months about the issues associated with the long-term care of older people and the funding of nursing care. Some may even think that...

Things can only get better

01 May 2002

Nursing Older People

News comment

recently by the Audit Commission, updates the findings of the original Forget Me Not first published in 2000, which highlighted significant gaps in mental health...

Draft bill response

01 November 2002

Nursing Older People

RCN news: policy and practice groups

Many readers will be aware that in June of this year the government published a draft Mental Health Bill to introduce a new framework for mental health care in...

Plans for networking

01 April 2002

Nursing Older People

RCN news

A key area of development for the committee in 2002 is to continue to promote awareness of the mental health needs of older people within the RCN as an organisation...

Dementia Care: A Practical Photographic Guide

01 January 2006

Nursing Older People

Book Review

This book is an interesting and potentially useful addition to the currently limited range of dementiacare books that aim to provide a more practical guide to caring...

Congress review

01 June 2003

Nursing Older People

RCN news

RCN Congress 2003 was, as usual, a challenging mix of debates and an ever-growing number of stimulating fringe events. Members of the steering committees of the two...

Important business

01 January 2006

Nursing Older People

News comment

The new guide for older people’s mental health services, published by the Department of Health (2005), recognises that up to 50 per cent of older people in hospital...