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Clinical guidelines on delirium and loss of consciousness

27 April 2014

Delirium can be confused with dementia but is potentially reversible if the causes are identified. Transient loss of consciousness, or blackouts, are very common, but diagnosis of cause is often inaccurate. NICE quality standards on each of these conditions.

In a series
Clinical guidelines

Geriatricians in Medicine

01 December 2012

Geriatrics is the largest specialty doing general medicine and providing acute medical care of patients admitted as emergencies. As general physicians, they share with other specialists in Acute/General Medicine the provision of the first 24-48 hours of emergency medical care of all adults.

Fact sheet

Making Health and Care Systems fit for an Ageing Population

06 March 2014

A seminal King's Fund Report in which David Oliver et. al. describes the steps required to make health and care systems fit for their core patient group - namely older people. 

Report

BGS Position Statement on Assisted Dying

30 October 2024

This statement sets out the BGS position on assisted dying, our priorities for end of life care, and our concerns that effective legal safeguards cannot be created to protect older people from unwarranted harms.

Position statement

Mental capacity

09 March 2010

What is mental capacity?  What do we really mean when we ask if a patient has (or lacks) capacity?  Capacity often depends on context.  The ethical conundrum of mental capacity unravelled. 

Fact sheet

Hospital Wide Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (HoW CGA) - History of the project

28 August 2018

The aim of  the Hospital Wide Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (HoW CGA) project was to inform NHS managers, clinicians, patients and the public about how best to organise hospital services for frail older people.

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Report

Occupational Therapy: putting prevention at the heart of care

14 October 2017

In its report Living Not Existing: Putting Prevention at the Heart of Care for Older People, the Royal College of Occupational Therapists seeks to show how doing the right thing for individuals can actually reduce their need for expensive care long-term.

Report

Dignity - supporting toilet access and use in frail older people

01/06/2006

The aim of the "Behind Closed Doors" campaign is to raise awareness that people, whatever their age and physical ability, should be able to choose to use the toilet in private in all care settings.

Good practice guide

What you should expect from your NHS bladder and bowel service

24 December 2011

The Royal College of Physicians published audit findings about the services and quality of care of people with bladder and bowel incontinence in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. The audit was commissioned by the Healthcare Quality and Improvement Partnership.

Good practice guide

I often suspect that an older person is depressed, but I cannot persuade colleagues to consider this diagnosis.

01 October 2012

Nurses frequently complain to me that when they think an older patient might have depression they have difficulty in convincing colleagues to take action. This could be because of the under-recognition of depression in old age, and also the way in which nurses articulate their concerns.

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E-learning

Productive practice in health care

01 October 2012

Productive working is often associated with manufacturing, where being productive results in producing items. Many of the techniques that can be used to assess and improve productivity originated in the car manufacturing industry.

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E-learning

Morbidity - Comorbidity and multimorbidity. What do they mean?

1 Oct 2012

Comorbidity simply means more than one illness or disease occurring in one person at the same time and multimorbidity means more than two illnesses or diseases occurring in the same person at the same time.

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E-learning

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Age and Ageing Journal

Read our international journal publishing refereed original articles and commissioned reviews on geriatric medicine and gerontology

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