Notes from a sixtysomething

Jef Smith

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Part of Their Lives: Community Care for Older People with Dementia

Roger Watson

The Everyday Affairs Training Pack

Sharon Blackburn

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Shona Pearson

Letters

Anne Wiles

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Emma Good, Rebecca McLean

Letters

Cath Gilpin

Letters

Dianne Ewin

New publications

The new data protection act

Lynne Phair, Julie Lee Winsor

Distance learning gerontological degree

Jan Dewing

Annual reports

Assessing cardiovascular functioning in older people

Roger Watson

Medications and older people

Roger Watson

Long-term analgesics and older people – a hidden addiction?

Ifor Edwards, Emad Salib

Transdermal patch use and older people

Tina Wills

Hidden talents: bringing out the dark horse

Hazel Heath

Dependency in older people recently admitted to care homes

The ‘ideal home’ study: seeking consumers’ views in elderly longterm care

Do ‘low-risk’ older people need podiatry care? Preliminary results of a follow-up study of discharged patients

Factors associated with strain in co-resident spouses of patients following stroke

The patient as ‘teacher’: learning in the care of elderly persons with dementia

The pattern of support networks among the community dwelling elderly in urban Ireland: variations with mental disorder

New roles – new dilemmas

Lynne Phair, Jon Glasby, Hazel Heath

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The NHS Plan

NHS Plan

New plan – new look journal

Hazel Heath