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Psychotropic Drugs and the Elderly: Fast facts

01 October 2004

Mental Health Practice

Book Review

This book is designed as a day-to-day guide for practitioners working with older people with mental health needs. It is a detailed and authoritative text about the...

Celebrating practice development

01 March 2002

Nursing Older People

RCN news: gerontological nursing programme

Nursing older people is a complex and skilled area of healthcare practice that demands high levels of expertise and commitment. As healthcare practitioners we work...

Reconceptualising Work with Carers

01 June 2004

Nursing Older People

Book Review

The last decade has seen major changes to policy and practice around work with carers, and this book takes a fresh look at ways of working with carers, turning a...

Practice development trials and triumphs

01 August 2002

Nursing Older People

News

There are strong reasons for developing practice in older people’s health care but the concept is complex. Practice development means helping practitioners within...

Old age provides new problems

20 January 1999

Nursing Standard

Feature

INDIA IS facing a growing challenge. The population is increasing along with life expectancy and, as a result, the country is experiencing an inevitable rise in...

Involving older users in education and evaluation

01 November 1999

Nursing Older People

Nursing practice communication

Memory clinics project In 1998 the RCN’s Gerontological Nursing programme was commissioned by Eisai Ltd to develop a learning resource for nurses working in memory...

Analysing policy shaping the future

01 November 2000

Nursing Older People

RCN news: gerontological nursing programme

A stream of new policies, many of them focusing on older people, are currently being implemented – the NHS Plan, published last July, and a new National Service...

Involving older people

01 December 2001

Nursing Older People

RCN news

The RCN Gerontological Nursing Programme (GNP) is involved in a wide range of practice development projects within the independent sector and the NHS. These focus on...

The NHS Plan – funding nursing care

01 April 2001

Nursing Older People

Rcn news

The NHS Plan (DoH 2000), published last year, emphasises improved care for older people. Key within it is the proposal that older people in all settings will receive...

Collaboration in action

01 July 2001

Nursing Older People

News

Over the last decade, the provision of health and social care for older people has become increasingly complex. In the same time frame the number of specialist...