Applying sound principles of medication use for older people

Claire Doyle

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Events

Still Rockin’!

Events

PEG tube feeding

Rosemary Strange Matron, Murtle Degnan

Letters

Eileen McKibbin

Letters

Robert Golding

Letters

Meg Elliott Matron

Letters

Price Kerry

New publications

Practical Nursing Philosophy

June Andrews

Person-centred Dementia: An Introductory Course

Sharon Blackburn

New publications

The Psychology of Ageing: An Introduction (3rd edition)

June Andrews

Nursing Assessment with Older People: A Person-Centred Approach

Ruth Sander

Improving falls management

Ceri Sedgley

Notes from a sixtysomething

Jef Smith

Changing care homes changing practice

Pat Duff

Defining nursing and personal care

Candy Duncan

Resuscitation guidelines

Hazel Heath

Mental health and older people survey

Andrea Ward

New care standards Scotland

Angela Kydd

Distance learning gerontological degree

Irene Schofield

Review 2000

Tina Wills

Assessing endocrine system function in older people

Roger Watson

Assessing orthostatic hypotension in older people

Pamela Ann Reeve

Oral health in older people

Mary Clay

Implementing an oral hygiene assessment tool on an acute medical ward for older people

Andy Lockwood

Oral health in long-term care settings

Helen Paterson

Christmas past and present

Powerful whispers

Jenny Willis, Janette Firth

End-of-life decision making for nursing home residents with dementia

John Adams

Qualitative analysis of stroke patients’ motivation for rehabilitation

John Adams

Nursing, medication education and the new policy agenda: the evidence base

John Adams

Restraint use in elder care: decision making among registered nurses

John Adams

Prevalence and nursing staff awareness of hearing impairment in older hospital patients

John Adams

The attitude of Japanese family caregivers toward the elderly with dementia

John Adams

Creating a game for sexuality and aging: the sexual dysfunction trivia game

John Adams

Interactions between nurses during handovers in elderly care

John Adams

Adjusting stroke patients’ poor position: an observational study

John Adams

Living with stroke: a phenomenological study

John Adams

Health care assistants

Hearing older voices in Wales

Playing the numbers game

Bringing down the Berlin Wall

Jon Glasby, Lorraine Morgan

Older people suffer appalling abuse in Cumbria trust

News in focus

Local authority contracting criticised in new report

Personal care should be part of assessing and monitoring health

Advocacy

Palliative care education

Report calls for end to haphazard service provision

Chairman of Royal Commission advocates free delivery of personal care

News

Government tackles ageism

News in brief

News in brief

Human rights – not best interests

Hazel Heath