Infection control

Sharon Bennett

Primary Care and Dementia

Alan Crump

Medicines in the Elderly

Roger Watson

Alzheimer’s Disease: Policy and Practice Across Europe

Sharon Blackburn

Website watch

Still Rockin

Events

Letter

P Wickes

New publications

How the other half lives

Christopher Buswell

Learning by degrees

Jan Draper

Changing chairs

Preparing for congress

Paddy Healy

Plans for networking

Barry Aveyard

Secure environments

Feeding into the RCN strategy

Alan Crump

nutrition and the older adult

Chris Eberhardie

instrumental passivity: a behavioural theory of dependence

Mark Faulkner

assessing the health promotion needs of informal carers

Julie Hall

From rhetoric to reality

Jef Smith

Journal scan

John Adams scans a range of journals and highlights their relevance for nurses who work with older people

Journal scan

John Adams

Journal scan

Discharging responsibilities

Jon Glasby

Government pledges extra funding to boost intermediate care

Major role for nurses in assessment guidance

News

News in brief

Older people ‘failed by mental health services’

Misguided attitudes bar progress

Daniel Allen