Researching older people

Jean McIntosh

Tool assessment has potential to reinforce good care home practice

Ruth Sander

Improving care for depression helps reduce suicide risk

Targets to support older people at home lack service provision

Prompt treatment reduces pain from PHN

An emotionally intelligent response to patients’ needs

People with dementia likely to die following hospital admission

Discharge planning: more than just process

Insertion of a urinary catheter

Christine Head

Surveying nursing practice on wards for older people with mental health needs

Carole Dinshaw

Dementia care training manual for staff working in nursing and residential settings

Professor June Andrews

Integrating Primary Health Care

Lynne Phair

The Importance of Food and Mealtimes in Dementia Care

Jan Dewing

Ask the experts

Sarah McGeorge

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Sian Watkin

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Lorrraine Burgess

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Julie Ayres

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Jane Buswell

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Wyn Abbot

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Marie Barnes

Let’s respect

Deborah Sturdy

Falls

Robert Short

Shooting into the past

Rosas Mitchell

...and in other news

Ageism: it’s now against the law

Daniel Allen

Good news week?

Les Bright

Proposing clarity in long-term care provision

Rebecca Neno

The choice to die at home

Thelma Agnew

Sound bite

Campaigner court action to oppose alzheimer drugs’ ruling

Public consultation needed before wards close, rules court

Dignity is ‘everyone’s business’, says DH

Advice to nurses: ‘be the voice’ for older people with cancer to ensure appropriate services

Sarah Harrison

Working hard to reduce falls

Vimla Sharma