This edition examines what leadership looks like within the multidisciplinary team caring for older people, featuring experiences and reflections from people at different stages of their careers. This content is limited to members only.

This edition focuses on movement disorders and explores some of the issues and innovations that impact older people with Parkinson's and related conditions. This content is limited to members only.

There are three times as many care home beds as acute hospital beds in the UK. This issue focuses on the significant group of older people who live with frailty in care homes. This content is limited to members only.

This document describes the care home sector across the UK as it currently stands, how health and wellbeing has traditionally been supported in care homes and sets out what good healthcare provision in a care home environment should look like.

Delirium is now recognised as a common symptom of coronavirus, and older people living in long-term care facilities are at higher risk, especially those with dementia.

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.

The Wessex Region Spring Meeting 2021 was held on 27 May 2021

How Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has concentrated on engaging with its staff to help them focus on the essentials of caring. It has come up with simple effective solutions to help improve the treatment, dignity and care of older people.

Advance care planning (including end of life discussions) is being promoted as part of the NHS end of life care strategy. Such discussions require great care. The BGS with others have prepared guidelines on advance care planning which we summarise here.
 

This report sets out data that currently exists regarding nurses and AHPs working in older people’s healthcare in England and suggests how this workforce could be better utilised. 

Reablement, rehabilitation and recovery should be everyone's business. This issue introduces a new report from the BGS and includes some examples from the multidisciplinary team.  This content is limited to members only.

This report summarises the findings of a survey of the BGS membership undertaken in late 2023. It provides a snapshot into how our members are feeling about their work and the services they work in.