Making badges

Hoist weigher

Diet supplement

Pillow lift

Dysphagia drinks

What a shower

Drug delivery

The Trained Nurse’s Teaching Pack Vol 2

Jim Marr

Improving Services for Older People: Staff Development in Dementia Care

Sharon Blackburn

Still Rockin!

New publications

Events

Letters

Anita Astle

Notes from a sixty something

Jef Smith

Staff have obligations too

RW Merchant

An age old problem

Rosemary Strange

Assessing continuing care needs

Brendan Mc Cormack, Pauline Ford

Falls on integrated medical wards

John Adams

The effects of a structured education course on stroke survivors living in the community

John Adams

Mother, daughter, patient, nurse: women’s emotion work in aged care

John Adams

Use of in-patient hospital beds by people living in residential care

John Adams

A clinical evaluation of the Nimbus 3 alternating pressure mattress replacement system

John Adams

Uptake of breast cancer screening in older women

John Adams

Dreams that lie in tatters: the changing fortunes of nurses who left the British NHS to own and run residential homes for elderly people

John Adams

Putting pen to paper

Gill Garrett

Promoting wellbeing in older people with cognitive impairment

Jan Dewing

Assessing neurological functioning in older people

Roger Watson

Clinical supervision at work

Róisin Gallinagh, Linda Campbell, Marion Getty, Fionnuala Mitchell, Patricia McKenna

What value registered nurses?

Jayne Wright

Experiencing health care

Mary McClymont

Continence – everyone’s business

Sue Thomas

Opportunities to influence government

Sue Simmonds

Use of private nursing homes welcomed

Compensation possible for home owners

News in brief

GPs paint grim picture of NHS services

Editorial

A new champion

Linda Thomas