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Hope for the hopeless

01 December 1990

Elderly Care

Psychiatry

Perhaps the greatest difficulty facing a young professional working with elderly people lies in establishing what is normal within an age group that is so much older...

Trouble in mind

01 August 1990

Elderly Care

Psychiatry

Old age psychiatry received recognition as a speciality within the National Health Service by the Department of Health in the Autumn of 1989. It follows geriatric...

Time out of mind

01 February 1991

Elderly Care

Psychiatry

Dementia is not a rare condition in old age; few people are affected before the age of 60 and even then only 1-2 per cent of the population become seriously...

Understanding confusion

01 September 1990

Elderly Care

Psychiatry

Delirium is perhaps the most exciting, most frightening and potentially the most rapidly rewarding of all the mental disorders of late life- differentiated by Martin...

Hospice transfer for patients at the end of life: part 1

23 October 2013

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

This is the first of two articles about improving end of life care for terminally ill patients in a district general hospital. The article describes a hospice...

03 April 2024 / Vol 39 issue 4

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