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Dr Adrian Hopper, Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) clinical lead for geriatric medicine, and Jennifer Burns, president of the British Geriatrics Society (BGS), invite you to join our webinar to discuss opportunities to improve frailty care in England.
BGS Nurse and AHP Council have identified five levels of health and care staff in the workforce where specific knowledge and skills pertaining to working with older people, who may be living or dying with frailty, requires a tailored educational and practice development response.
A BGS webinar on Care at End of Life, exploring results from the National Audit of Care at End of Life for frail older people. We will focus on the impact for clinical work for those working with older people.
Set up in 2017, the group aims to improve care for older people in urgent care settings (emergency departments and acute hospital care).
This is the sixth 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.
Out of hospital care for older people, such as hospital-at-home, is being delivered in a number of countries as an alternative to hospitalisation for a select group of older people.
Earlier this week I wrote about ongoing and sometimes over-polarised debates within British geriatric medicine, BGS membership, and government policy around community versus acute hospital care for older people with frailty who require skilled assessment and treatment.
How best to deliver geriatric care across the whole hospital? This collection outlines key articles that are attempting to develop solutions to this challenging conundrum.
Presentations from 2021 South East and South West Thames Joint Region Meeting (4 CPD Points)
Scottish Care of Older People (SCoOP) is a Scottish national evaluation project focusing on care of older people across Scotland in both primary and secondary care settings.
This guideline provides recommendations based on current evidence for best practice in the detection, assessment, treatment and follow up of adults with delirium.
The British Geriatrics Society welcomes the new GIRFT (Getting It Right First Time) national report on geriatric medicine.
BGS Community and Geriatrics Special Interest Group announces Dr Shelagh O'Riordan as its new Chair.
This chapter offers conclusions drawn from the evidence, examples and recommendations set out in the blueprint document, plus references.
This chapter sets out why commissioners must focus on older people and frailty when planning services. It also talks about the role of comprehensive geriatric assessment, the workforce challenge and how the needs of older people are at the heart of our blueprint.
This section of our blueprint describes the key touchpoints of care and support for older people across the system, from prevention through to end of life care. It describes the evidence-based approaches and interventions that are required to prevent and manage frailty across the continuum of care.
This chapter introduces our Blueprint with a foreword by our President and Honorary Secretary/lead author, an executive summary and a roundup of our 12 recommendations.