The power of three

Ruth Williams

Patient-reported outcome measures and how they are used

Simon Palfreyman

Care of older people with epilepsy

Ena Bingham

Safeguarding people’s rights under the Mental Capacity Act

Jakki Cowley, Sue Lee

Environments designed to heal

Louise Hunt

Treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Ruth Sander

Improving the palatability of oral nutritional supplements

Ruth Sander

Communicating life views and end of life preferences

Ruth Sander

Surgery complications linked to Parkinson’s disease

Ruth Sander

Practice question

Sarah McGeorge, Lesley Chapman, Paula Atkinson

Notice board

Education

Diary

Essential support while mourning the living

John Suchet

A practical guide to the spiritual care of the dying person

Phil Russell

Doing a Literature Review in Health and Social Care

Parveen Azam Ali

When someone you love has dementia

Claire Chatterton

Urinary test not always needed

Julie Uglow, Soline Jerram

Forum focus

Hazel Heath

Revised dementia strategy renews impetus for change

Jennifer Trueland

Album puts foreign staff in the picture

Fresh guidelines for falls prevention issued

NMC should have vetting powers, claims charity

Tamsin Snow

Volunteers with mild dementia sought to trial monitoring system

Report on poverty identifies challenges prevalent in old age

Memory room helps to soothe residents

News in brief

Editorial February 2011: The year for stoicism

Sophie Blakemore