Tackling dementia

Clare Lomas

Approaches to counter loneliness and social isolation

Bob Price

Nursing management of urinary tract infections

Sara Ribeiro

Understanding the needs of people with dementia and family carers

Jennifer Bray, Simon Evans, Rachel Thompson, Mary Bruce, Christine Carter, Dawn Brooker, Sarah Milosevic, Helen Coleman, Wilf McSherry

Exercise lowers falls risk and improves life for older people

Ruth Sander

Combined treatments for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Ruth Sander

Prednisolone benefits community-acquired pneumonia patients

Ruth Sander

Practice question

Debbie Cheeseman

Noticeboard

Diary

Try to see the bigger picture

Joanne M Fitzpatrick, Yan-Shing Chang

Take some time out to reflect

Stella Gay

Patients before professionals!

June Andrews

A Practical Guide to the Mental Capacity Act 2005: Putting the Principles of the Act into Practice

Lynne Phair

Four Seasons of Grieving: A Nurse’s Healing Journey with Nature

Helen Reeves

Reshaping health and social care

How are we going to pay for the care of older people?

Nick Triggle

News in brief

One in four people with HIV is over 50

New end of life guidelines welcomed by care community

Nick Triggle

Unsafe discharge from hospital highlighted in watchdog report

Essential services are crucial to tackling loneliness

Consultation announced on Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards

Inspiring sustainable change

Nicky Hayes