Living environments and older people

Tina Davis

Involving Relatives and Friends: A Good Practice Guide for Homes for Older People

Rosemary Strange

Piloting Choice and Control for Older People

Pam Milward

Practical Psychiatry of Old Age 3rd edition

Alan Crump

Website watch

Events

Letters

Overseas recruitment

Mary Clay

Opinion

Rey Viray

A shared experience

Rosemary Strange

Gnp update

Jan Dewing

Assessment of older people using medication

Roger Watson

Side rails as physical restraints: the need for appropriate assessment

Róisín Gallinagh, Éamonn Slevin, Brendan McCormack

The easy-care assessment system and its appropriateness for older people

Joan Richardson

Oral assessment and intervention

Josephine Roberts

Dementia and art

Helen Leslie

Components of a proper hospital discharge for elders

‘He will finish up caring for me’: people with learning disabilities and mutual care

John Adams

The principle of respect for autonomy in the care of nursing home residents

Physical functioning of elderly cancer patients prior to diagnosis and following initial treatment

Journal scan

Shifting the balance

Jon Glasby

Regulations laid out by new commission

Ethical recruitment of nurses from overseas to the independent sector

Sally Taber

News in brief

Tell the truth about dementia, says MHF

Bunis scoops award

Inspection of inspectors reveals poor standards

Good ideas – poor experiences

Hazel Heath