Carole Marshall

Flexible carers can improve the social lives of their patients

Ruth Sander

People who live alone have a higher risk of sustaining hip fractures

T’ai Chi has benefits for survivors of myocardial infarctions

Acidic environments may be able to help wounds to heal faster

People with faecal incontinence do not often seek help or use aids

ICPs help hip fractures

Leg ulcers

Pat Morris, Ruth Sander

Community matrons: the value of knowing self (part two)

Abigail Masterson

Intermediate care for older people

Pip Logan, Val Stoner-Hobbs, Helen McCloughry, Carol Foster, Dawne Fitzsimmons, Jo Williams, Pamela Spencer, Kate Robertson, John Gladman

Issues in Heart Failure Nursing

Jane Scullion

Nurse Facilitated Hospital Discharge

Sarah McGeorge

Person-Centred dementia care. Making services better

Donna Doherty

The Psychology of Ageing: An Introduction

Henry Minardi

Working With Care: A Guide To Protecting The Vulnerable From Abuse

Les Bright

Medicines management for residential and nursing homes

Deborah Humphrey

Beyond menopause

David Pountney

‘Have you moved your bowels yet?’

Christian Duffin

End-user involvement

Tracey Forshaw, Jane Greene, Frances Grant

Emerging agendas

Hazel Heath, Lynne Phair

Dementia, delirium, or depression?

David Pountney

And in other news…

Left and right unite

Daniel Allen

Implementing strategy for older people in wales

Joanna Lyall

Outside the centre of care

Rebecca Neno

News in brief

Call for NHS to supply free continence pads

Single-use wash bowls help reduce the risk of infection

Guidelines to reduce mortality following MI

Nurse-led intermediate care unit wins 94 per cent of patient approval

Older people at the forefront of fitness training

Sarah Harrison

Dietary needs are being ignored in hospital

Sarah Harrison

Achieving the best outcome

Elizabeth Girot