Eyes and Ears

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2024 Spring Meeting

This meeting has already taken place but is available to watch on demand until 24 May 2025.

2021

Ambitions for change: Improving healthcare in care homes

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.

Members only

Apr

2018

Mental health nurses and older patients’ physical health needs

Physical health problems, particularly chronic health problems such as obesity, diabetes and smoking-related illnesses, are more common in people with long-term mental illness.

CGA: Sensory impairment

Sensory impairment is an important but often overlooked element of CGA.

Sep

2023

Moving forward with research and treatment for hearing conditions in older people

Hearing conditions such as hearing loss, tinnitus and hyperacusis are highly prevalent in the population and can severely impact communication and quality of life. Hearing is affected by multiple factors, including heredity, noise exposure, age, sex, ear disorders and lifestyle factors.