Rehabilitation Group

The BGS Rehabilitation Group is a task and finish group assembled to address the issues surrounding rehabilitation and loss of function as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

This page will be populated with information from this group shortly.

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Resources

Developments in stroke medicine

20 Apr 2022

The field of stroke medicine has seen significant advances and there is an ever increasing awareness that there are real opportunities to make a dramatic difference to stroke patients. Age and Ageing has charted our progress, publishing key research, and sharing ground-breaking ideas and knowledge. This online collection showcases some of the very best of such work.

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Guideline for the care of people living with frailty undergoing elective and emergency surgery

28 Sep 2021

The Centre for Perioperative Care, working in collaboration with the British Geriatrics Society, has published guidance for the care of people living with frailty undergoing elective and emergency surgery that encompasses the whole perioperative pathway.

Good practice guide

Looking after your physical health: Do you practice what you preach?

07 Sep 2021
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Newsletters

COVID-19: Rehabilitation of older people

01 Jun 2020

This page brings together resources and information relating to the rehabilitation of older people as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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News

BGS urges the Chancellor to fund ongoing discharge care

24 Sep 2020

Nineteen BGS officers and prominent members have joined forces to write to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak, to urge him to announce ongoing funding for discharge services in the Comprehensive Spending Review.

Policy

New NHS England hospital discharge funding: Your questions

24 Aug 2020

Late on Friday 21 August, the Department of Health and Social Care announced a £588 million fund to support people being discharged from hospital. We encourage BGS members with any questions about how this funding will be implemented to come forward and we will pass these onto NHS England for clarification.

Policy

BGS responds to reports of a withdrawal of funding for COVID-19 rehabilitation

05 Aug 2020

The British Geriatrics Society was alarmed to learn that there has been a U turn in Government policy regarding the provision of rehabilitation services for people affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, as reported in the HSJ today.

News

‘Sit Up, Get Dressed and Keep Moving!’

29 Jul 2020

Campaign relaunched to give healthcare professionals new resources to combat deconditioning in hospital

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Blogs

Charting the course: Healthy mobility as we age

16 Nov 2023

Change is the only constant in life, and this includes shifts in how our bodies function as we grow older. A recent paper published in Age and Ageing provides an alternative to the traditional cutoff approach, taking the age-associated decline of physical function into account.

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Timely Discharge Series: Right care, right time, right pathway

09 Nov 2021

This is the ninth blog in the BGS’s ‘Timely Discharge’ series. We aim to raise awareness of the detrimental effects on older people of being stuck in hospital when they are 'medically fit for discharge'. Our blog series explores the causes of delayed discharges, the knock-on effects to the wider health and social care system, and what needs to change.

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Do we really need a stethoscope in a rehabilitation ward?

27 Sep 2021
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Long Covid: An Age-old concept?

25 Feb 2021

With over 69 million reported cases of COVID-19 worldwide, we have all experienced rapid and dramatic changes to our healthcare services over the last 12 months. Older people have been disproportionately affected by a greater severity of disease and mortality, detrimental psychological, cognitive and physical outcomes from necessary social distancing, as well as age discrimination. 

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