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Exercise Interventions in Sarcopenia and Frailty: From Research to Practice (472)
This event is intended for clinicians and healthcare professionals working with older people in acute and community settings in training roles.
This event is intended for clinicians and healthcare professionals working with older people who have experienced major trauma.
This event is intended for all multidisciplinary healthcare professionals working with older people undergoing elective or emergency surgery.
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.
With over 69 million reported cases of COVID-19 worldwide, we have all experienced rapid and dramatic changes to our healthcare services over the last 12 months. Older people have been disproportionately affected by a greater severity of disease and mortality, detrimental psychological, cognitive and physical outcomes from necessary social distancing, as well as age discrimination.
In the collaborative spirit of multidisciplinary rehabilitation, we crowdsourced the design of a new textbook!
This chapter looks at the workforce, training and physical space requirements for the delivery of rehabilitation, and considers some solutions to existing barriers.
This chapter links the themes in this report to the touchpoints described in the BGS Blueprint, Joining the dots.
This chapter provides an overview of rehabilitation as a beneficial intervention for many older people living with frailty, and the current situation across the four nations of the UK.
This chapter introduces the report with a foreword, executive summary and a roundup of our key messages.
The National Falls Prevention Co-ordination Group (NFPCG) Deconditioning task and finish sub-group have developed a suite of five resources intended to support individuals, health and care professionals and commissioners to take action to help older adults become more active and recondition following activity restrictions in the COVID-19 pandemic.
BGS members have been at the forefront of the COVID-19 pandemic and have been implementing innovative solutions to enable them to deal with the unprecedented demand for services, which have been summarised and submitted to NHS England ans NHS Improvement.
This page brings together resources and information relating to the rehabilitation of older people as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
This standard has been jointly produced by the British Orthopaedic Association (BOA), the British Geriatrics Society (BGS) and other organisations.
The British Geriatrics Society welcomes the new GIRFT (Getting It Right First Time) national report on geriatric medicine.
Late on Friday 21 August, the Department of Health and Social Care announced a £588 million fund to support people being discharged from hospital. We encourage BGS members with any questions about how this funding will be implemented to come forward and we will pass these onto NHS England for clarification.
Campaign relaunched to give healthcare professionals new resources to combat deconditioning in hospital
This section of the BGS guidance on end of life care in older people looks at maintaining independence and function in older people towards the end of life.