Establishing a ‘train the trainer’ education model for clinical skills development

Sheila Doyle, Joan Gallagher, Miriam Bell, Ceire Rochford, Sinead Roynane

Care professionals’ views on undertaking care assessment in the community

Grace Beveridge, Theresa Mitchell

A device to help reduce catheter movement and dislodgement

Ruth Sander

Older people need to be given good advice about prescribed medication

Cautious use of steroids to ease the pain of polymyalgia rheumatica is vital

Multiple chronic diseases compound problems related to ageing

Giving more and better information about long-term catheters

Palliative care in dementia should be used to avoid undignified deaths

Smaller, easier bone density scanners can aid diagnosis

Pelvic floor exercises can help stop post-micturition dribble in men

Improving end-of-life nursing

Lesley Chapman, Deborah Humphrey

Susan koch

Preventing and treating constipation in later life

Cheryl Holman, Sally Roberts, Maggie Nicol

Championing the individual

Christian Duffin

The last resort?

Les Bright

Why we all need to be worried about the impact of falling

Deborah Sturdy

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Countering the cure

Daniel Allen

Nurse-led projects aim to reshape end-of-life care

Gary Bell, Colin Parish

Angels or demons?

Nurses confront the challenge of delivering dignified care

Rebecca Neno

Staff talked loudly outside residents’ rooms and woke them regularly

Thelma Agnew

STIs in older people

Christian Duffin

Patient dignity: why nurses still struggle to achieve it

Rebecca Neno

News in brief

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Diabetes institute will address gaps in care and training

Glasgow falls scheme spreads out

Consultation on dementia

Bid to reform use of antipsychotic drugs

£31 million to extend telehealth programme across the country

Christian Duffin

Protecting patient dignity

Gary Bell