Survey of care policies

Brenda Roe, Christopher Shiels

Duty calls

Elizabeth Ketcher

Understanding Dementia: The Man with the Worried Eyes

John Keady

Older People and their Needs

Ruth Sander

New publications

Still Rockin!

Letters

Angelina Okoro-Haben

Letters

Sue Elsey

Letters

Angela Hampton

Letters

Clare Greenfield

Events

Properly funded nursing homes are the answer

Vivienne Birch

Reporting a nurse to the UKCC

Viv Courteney

Flexible wheels

Medicines on the web

Incontinence products

Ulcer care

Skin care

Smart bath

Directions

The nurse’s role in assessing an older person

Hazel Heath

The short portable mental status questionnaire: assessing cognitive ability in nursing home residents

Dementia and the over-75 check: the role of the primary care nurse

Continuity and discontinuity: the quality of life following

Elderly Japanese people living in small towns reflect on end-of-life issues

Using qualitative methods in health related action research

Promoting autonomy and independence for older people within nursing practice: an observational study

Standardized health check data from community-dwelling elderly people: the potential for comparing populations and comparing need

Sexually transmitted infections and older people

Elizabeth Grigg

Staff attitudes to physiotherapy and activities in private nursing homes

Rosemary Chesson, Jennifer Duthie

Rehabilitation: philosophy into practice

Christine Brown Wilson

Mental health services for older people

New degree to develop experts in gerontological nursing

Irene Schofield

Pathing the way with intermediate care

Shocking abuse of older people by care workers

National beds inquiry advocates 10,000 new beds over 20 years

News in brief

Care of older people hits the headlines

Linda Thomas