The right strategy

Daniel Allen

Effects of dog-assisted intervention on behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia

Lena Nordgren, Gabriella Engström

Association between quality of life and religious coping in older people

Jabar Heydari-Fard, Masoumeh Bagheri-Nesami, Marjan Ahmad Shirvani, Reza-Ali Mohammadpour

Leg clubs: a runaway success

Erin Dean

Why intermediate care services need to be refreshed

Cliff Kilgore

Practice question

Sam Boobier

Journal scan

Noticeboard

Diary

Would you be able to spot a foot attack?

Jackie Watts

Please listen to carers’ views about stroke services

Clare Greenfield

Acute Medicine in the Frail Elderly

Michelle Parker

Law and Ethics in Nursing and Healthcare

Julie McGarry

Positively Parkinson’s

Ruth Sander

Exercise stays central to treatment of osteoarthritis in latest advice

Lisa Berry

Dementia strategy now needs updating to build on success

Nick Triggle

Nurse specialists can communicate their value with online tool

Suit gives employees a sense of what it is like to be frail

Number of alcohol-related deaths rising in older people

Lisa Berry

‘Fragmented’ system should be overhauled, reports commission

Lancaster University will take part in European study of palliative care

Expert calls for staff training in dementia to cover all of its forms

News in brief

Boredom is the enemy

Nicky Hayes