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How a rapid response team is supporting people to remain at home

26 November 2015

Nursing Older People

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This article explores the work of a rapid response team (RRT) in an English city. The RRT is a multiprofessional intermediate care team that is able to support...

Functional impact of ten days of bed rest in healthy older adults

31 May 2017

Nursing Older People

Research focus

Kortebein and colleagues published a seminal paper in 2008 that reported a study involving 11 older participants older than 67 who underwent ten days of enforced bed...

Deconditioning due to hospitalisation

31 May 2017

Nursing Older People

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Functional decline as a result of admission to hospital has been well documented since 1944. Older people are at much higher risk of deconditioning than their...

Hospital-associated deconditioning and dysfunction

31 May 2017

Nursing Older People

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A paper published in 1991 in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society describes hospitalisation as a ‘devastating’ event for an older person. This was...

Preventable iatrogenic disability in elderly patients during hospitalisation

31 May 2017

Nursing Older People

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A French study involving 503 patients of 75 years and over reviewed the frequency, causes and preventability of disability induced by a hospital stay.

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