Assistive technology or telehealth, is designed to support people in their own homes. Telehealth is the remote exchange of data between a patient at home and clinicians to assist in diagnosis and monitoring.
While it may be unrealistic to celebrate every significant day for every patient, we know that assessment of a person’s spiritual needs should be an integral part of our professional assessment.
This case study illustrates some best practice solutions to support frail patients, carers and families if admitted to emergency care.
Feeling anxious from time to time is a normal human experience. When someone is anxious they might experience feelings of tension, nervousness, heightened awareness, fear or uncertainty, dry mouth and throat, and tightness in the chest.
People complain that dignity is difficult to define, but we can recognise care where dignity has been ignored or compromised in some way.
Details on the process of submitting an abstract to a BGS meeting.
‘Person-centred care’ is a much-used phrase in nursing. According to the Nursing and Midwifery Council (2010), nurses must ‘be responsible and accountable for safe, compassionate, person-centred, evidence-based nursing’.
General hospitals are designed to deliver safe, effective and often highly technological care. For people with dementia, however, these unfamiliar clinical environments can be frightening, disorientating and a threat to independence and wellbeing.
Improving the outcome for older people admitted to the general hospital: Guidelines for the development of liaison mental health services for older people.
A quality improvement programme that uses specially trained nurses to introduce an evidence based care bundle to reduce inpatient falls
The term ‘personalisation’ has become increasingly common in the context of a movement that recognises the importance of people’s individuality and their right to exercise choice in their daily lives.
Read our international journal publishing refereed original articles and commissioned reviews on geriatric medicine and gerontology