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The nurse consultant

01 November 2001

Nursing Older People

Opinion

The post for a nurse consultant for vulnerable older adults in Newcastle was created as part of a joint initiative between the then Newcastle City Health NHS Trust...

Practice question

01 April 2010

Nursing Older People

Resources

The publication of the National Dementia Strategy in 2009 was an important step towards providing health and social care services that are fit for the 21st century...

Beloved Old Age and What to Do About It: Margery Allingham’s The Relay Handed on to Julia Jones

31 May 2017

Nursing Older People

Book Review

This book offers the perspectives of two people caring for older family members: novelist Margery Allingham in the 1950s and her biographer Julia Jones, whose mother...

Practice question

01 July 2012

Nursing Older People

Resources

In recent years pressure ulcers have been seen as an unacceptable consequence of poor nursing care (The Telegraph 2011) and staff have questioned whether the...

Developing standards of care to meet older patients’ needs

07 February 1996

Nursing Standard

Standards of care

A ‘quality service’ has been described by Ovretveit (1992) as one which ‘gives individuals what they need as well as what they want and does so at the lowest cost’....

Beloved Old Age and What to Do About It: Margery Allingham’s The Relay Handed on to Julia Jones

21 June 2017

Nursing Standard

Book Review

This book offers the perspectives of two people caring for older family members: novelist Margery Allingham in the 1950s and her biographer Julia Jones, whose mother...

Responding to vulnerability in old age: patient-centred care

31 October 2012

Nursing Standard

CPD

Patient-centred care is a term widely used in health policy and is familiar to staff as a principle or commonly agreed approach to care. However, nursing and...

Developing a dementia care leaders’ toolkit for older patients with cognitive impairment

27 August 2020

Nursing Older People

Dementia

A recent review of the progress that has been made in meeting the government’s Challenge on Dementia 2020 detailed the variability, and in some cases suboptimal...

The MCA and end-of-life care

01 March 2008

Nursing Older People

Ask the experts

The Mental Capacity Act 2005 provides a legal framework for people who lack the capacity to make their own decisions. Part of this framework also allows people to...

Practice question

27 November 2013

Nursing Older People

Resources

General hospitals are designed to deliver safe, effective and often highly technological care. For people with dementia, however, these unfamiliar clinical...