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Health Care for an Aging Society

01 January 1990

Elderly Care

Book Review

I would give Health Care for an Aging Society the subtitle: The Contribution of Academic Institutions in the USA.

Abiding memories

01 July 1992

Elderly Care

Almshouses

Not so long ago, in a remote part of North Yorkshire, I chanced upon an exhibition of photographs of old almshouses. This set me thinking about an ancient form of...

A hidden workforce

01 October 1991

Elderly Care

Part-time staff

Anna is a friend of mine. We both came into nursing from other occupations, she from clerical work and I from teaching. All three are typical female occupations into...

Toward Healthy Aging

01 October 1991

Elderly Care

Book Review

Toward Healthy Aging is expanded to reflect increased research into disorders like osteoporosis and incontinence and greater concern for the needs of members of...

Higher education

01 February 1990

Elderly Care

Education

One consequence of the growing proportion of elderly people in industrial societies around the world is a wider interest in what has come to be known as gerontology....

An overview of the cane of older people today

21 July 1999

Nursing Standard

Book Review

As one title in a research series, the book reviews the literature and presents research findings on topics such as housing for older people, care planning in social...

Nursing Research: Methods, Critical Appraisal, and Utilization, 2nd edition

13 June 1990

Nursing Standard

Book Review

Nursing Research is a spacious text, heavy to hold but full of variety to the eye. The 11 contributors are all academic nurses in the USA. It is designed as 'an...

Career patterns of graduates in nursing

17 October 1990

Nursing Standard

Clinical graduate careers

Although nursing graduates comprise only 3 per cent of the annual number of newly registered nurses, the profession's high expectations of this group make it...