Dimensions: a two-day conference on education and awareness for all those working in dementia care

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Events

Ageing

Irene Schofield

Is the cooker turned off? caring for an older person with failing memory

Lynne Phair

Shaping our lives: what people think of the social care services they use

Our Voice in Our Future: Service Users Debate the Future of the Welfare State

Oral healthcare for older people

Older people’s perspectives: devising information, advice and advocacy services

Making the journey brighter: early diagnosis and support services for people with dementia and their carers

Moving and handling

Food, glorious food: perspectives on food and dementia

Fall proof: improving mobility and balance

Exercise for frail elders

A practical guide for disabled people or carers

Alzheimer's society book of activities

Mess and masochism

Helen Barber

Myocardial infarction and older people

Karen Rawlings-Anderson, Kate Johnson

Assessing pulse in older people

Philip Woodrow

Nursing older adults with mental health problems: therapeutic interventions – part 1

Henry Minardi, Nicky Hayes

Opening the door to healthcare assistants and support workers

Penny Joy, Sîan Wade

Speaking for ourselves

Belinda Dewar

Improving communication between hospitals and care homes: the development of a daily living plan for older people

John Adams

Reminiscence therapy for older women with depression: effects of nursing intervention classification in assisted-living long-term care

John Adams

Are we wasting our money on food supplements in elder care wards?

John Adams

How elderly nursing home residents transcend losses of later life

Continuing care problems being resolved, says DoH

Cash crisis deepens, warn care home managers

The price is right

Jon Glasby

News in Brief

Incapacity bill ‘a victory for people with dementia’

Mainstream or marginal? users’ influence on services

Hazel Heath