The caring touch

Clare Lomas

Dementia Friends sessions for nursing students

Lesley Baillie, Susan Beecraft, Sandie Woods

Open Access Identifying and managing patients with delirium in acute care settings

Penny Bond, Karen Goudie

Nurse-led management of chronic disease in a residential care setting

Julie Neylon

Improving the hospital environment for people with dementia

Jennifer Bray, Simon Evans, Mary Bruce, Christine Carter, Dawn Brooker, Sarah Milosevic, Rachel Thompson, Jane Longden, Jennifer Robinson

Communicating with older people helped by using VERA mnemonic

More research needed on benefits of post-stroke early mobilisation

Eosin should be used more on wet wounds in the UK

Practice question

Jo Jennings

Noticeboard

Diary

Tackling problems on the home front

Nick Triggle

London is a divided city for provision of end of life care

Louise Hunt

Looking forward: the chief nurse’s strategy

Tamsin Newton Snow

Big Knit offers protection from big chill

Europe unites to boost active ageing and prevent falls

Lisa Berry

News in brief

RCN online resource provides advice on end of life care

Film shows hospice patients and staff singing

Nursing homes need their funding to be ‘doubled’ to survive

Put older people on the agenda

Nicky Hayes