’Death may simply mean oblivion’

Pat Young

Still rockin’!

New publications

Events

FOCUS strategy 1996/97

John Keady

ACE Congress

Mary McClymont

What price community care?

Mary Anson

Great friends together

Stepping into business

Margaret O’Donnell

Robbed with impunity

Linda Nazarko

Overlay system

Fire safely training

Fragrance booster

Sheet and tile products

Go independent

Novel door handle design

Medical waste disposal units

Confidence and control

Regal comfort

New height adjustable bed

Rehabilitation products

Punture proof tyres

Foam mattress replacement programme

Daily body wash

Throw away products

Easy to fit incontinence sheath

Bath oil for skin disorders

New range of long term catheters

What’s in a name

Drugs bulletin

’£3m a year’ on pressure sores

Celebrating Age

Paul Mangan

Social Gerontology: New Directions

June Andrews

Depression and Dementia: Coexistence and Differentiation

James Marr

Nursing Care off Geriatric Emergencies

Brian Dolan

Looking at Confusion

Peter V Hasler

Research in the Nursing Care of Elderly People

Doreen Norton

End of Victorian times and Poor Laws

Thirst and dehydration in elderly people

Roger Watson

Boning up

R M Francis

Longterm support

Ruth Sander

Health care at the sharp end

Catherine Chattcn

A question of caring

Trevor Adams

Unique edition

Laura Swaffield

Crisis and the elderly

Measuring outcomes of care in a day hospital setting

Sharon Hamilton, Peter Congdon, RW Fowler

Guilty as charged?

Kay Harding

All change at Chiswick

Evaluating care services for people living with dementia

Ian Jacques

Continuing care: policies and implications

Hazel Heath

Winter of discontent

Diary

Letter

Barbara Rook

Letter

Lucy Jeacock

Letter

Barbara Thompson

Attractive presentation

Sonia Livesey

Careful restraint

Peter V Hosier

News in brief

PR Officer appointed for RNHA

Improvement to clothing service given go ahead

Promoting a wider understanding of elderly needs

Elderly more likely to consult a nurse practitioner

Increase registration fees proposal for care homes

Incontinence care on homes needs improving

Cautious welcome

News

New act protects rights of carers

Southport Hospital building programme nears completion

Additional premises added to Hull Centre

Keeping warm through exercise

Course for aspiring care assistants

Concern voiced over physical and mental abuse of elderly

Alternative to day care

Monitoring dependency

Outcry against insurance for care

Peterborough fracture project needs extra funding

Celebrating votes for women

Inadequate insulation in elderly homes

With a little imagination

Linda Thomas