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Working with Older People P654 Individual Study Pack Department of Health and Social Welfare

01 September 1990

Elderly Care

Review

Working with Older People is a distance-learning package intended for a wide range of healtli and social care professionals, including sheltered housing wardens and...

The age trap

01 April 1992

Elderly Care

Review

No-one over age 70 is eligible to be a CHC member unless there is a special reason, for example, representing a voluntary organisation working mainly with elderly...

The Company of Strangers

01 June 1991

Elderly Care

Review

It's a young person's world. Beauty is seen as skin-deep and wrinkle free. There's a lot of body fascism about. The dream images of youth, beauty and attractiveness...

Care of the dying

01 August 1991

Elderly Care

Review

Death is a universal experience of human existence, the most predictable event of our lives. And though for centuries men and women have tried to understand their...

Colorectal cancer: treatment and management

01 June 2005

Cancer Nursing Practice

Review

Colorectal cancer, or bowel cancer, describes cancerous growths in the colon, rectum or appendix. These are adenocarcinomas originating in the epithelial lining of...

Increasing the likelihood of participation

01 March 2008

Cancer Nursing Practice

Review

There has been a drive to enrol more patients into oncology randomized controlled trials (RCTs) in recent years (NHS 2000). A recently published report (Department...

Sounding out breast cancer

01 September 2006

Cancer Nursing Practice

Review

Following on from her description of the general use of ultrasound in cancer diagnosis in the March issue of CNP (Dixon 2006), Anne-Marie Dixon describes the use of...

Hope springs eternal

28 October 2008

Cancer Nursing Practice

Review

Long before clinical trials began, the Bible provided a story about King David, which illustrates the struggle between hope and surrender. When his son became...

Breast cancer: knowing the facts

28 October 2008

Cancer Nursing Practice

Review

The number of women who develop breast cancer and die of the disease is substantially lower now than it was 60 years ago, due mainly to more efficient screening and...

Sound medicine

01 March 2006

Cancer Nursing Practice

Review

When appropriately and selectively used, abdominal ultrasound can be a valuable adjunct or alternative to the plain ‘abdominal X-ray’ and when used as a first-line...