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Working with providers

01 December 1994

Nursing Management

Articles

More than half of all long-stay places are now provided by the independent sector, says the author, which means a host of changes for district nurses responsible for...

Identifying and assessing abuse in care homes – part 2

01 March 2002

Nursing Older People

Nursing older people

Long-term care provides a regulated and important part of welfare support for thousands of older people. For some of these it will be a sanctuary from earlier...

Mothers’ helpers?

01 December 2003

Nursing Older People

General

One in two people in Britain is now a grandparent by the age of 54 (Dench and Ogg 2002) which means that many of the older people seen by nurses will be someone’s...

City challenges

01 June 2003

Nursing Older People

General

Urban life presents a series of challenges to many older people and their families or practitioners supporting them. This article sets out the implications of city...

Improving menus of social care

01 May 2005

Nursing Older People

News

While we may be suffering from consultation fatigue, or perhaps consultation cynicism, the new Green Paper, Independence, Well-being and Choice (DH 2005), calls for...

Country life

01 February 2003

Nursing Older People

General

Defining a rural area in a largely urban county can be complicated and contentious. There are a variety of definitions of rurality and different ways of measuring...

No secrets in nursing homes

01 February 2001

Nursing Older People

Opinion

Institutional care often receives a bad press and some of this is justified (Stanley et al 1999). Many of us will have been shocked by the report of the external...

A step in the right direction?

01 January 2007

Nursing Older People

Nice guidelines

Sometimes too many guidelines can be as much a hindrance as a help to the healthcare professionals that are left to implement them. They can be pious statements of...

Your views matter

01 June 2004

Nursing Older People

Interactive

On page 37 there is a brief questionnaire. Please take a moment to look at it, fill it in and return it to the address given at the end. It is about a subject upon...

Anxiety and depression

01 February 2006

Nursing Older People

CPD

This article explores anxiety states among older people and how they may overlap with depression. It discusses prevalence, symptoms and treatment, and aims to help...

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