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This section of the BGS Delirium Hub focuses on managing delirium in specific settings and clinical situations.
Healthcare aims to help older people to live well, but ultimately must also support them to die well. Most people die in old age, but predicting death in both short- and long-term is impossible for many, although not all, older people.
This chapter of the Silver Book II covers the presentation of common geriatric conditions in an urgent care context.
Introduction from Dr Eileen Burns, Consultant Physician and Past President of British Geriatrics Society, and foreword by Dr Sarah Russell, family carer.
This section of the BGS guidance on end of life care in older people looks at the religious, spiritual and cultural aspects that may influence appropriate end of life care.
This section of the BGS guidance on end of life care in older people looks at the emotional and psychological needs that may be present as an older person approaches the end of life.
This section of the BGS guidance on end of life care in older people examines the issue of polypharmacy at the end of life.
This section of the BGS guidance on end of life care in older people looks at swallowing difficulties in the final phase of life.
This section of the BGS guidance on end of life care in older people addresses nutritional needs at the end of life.
This section of the BGS guidance on end of life care in older people covers the identification and management of delirium in older people at the end of life.
This section of the BGS guidance on end of life care in older people looks at the investigation and management of falls in the last phase of life.
This section of the BGS guidance on end of life care in older people examines the management of continence-related issues in frail older people at the end of life.
This section of the BGS guidance on end of life care in older people examines the management of pain in older people living with frailty at the end of life.
This section of the BGS guidance on end of life care in older people examines the management of acute deterioration in the context of frailty at the end of life.
This section of the BGS guidance on end of life care in older people looks at the role of advance care planning (ACP) in helping to make decisions about a persons wishes for the future.
This section of the BGS guidance on end of life care in older people examines how to identify when a person with frailty is entering the last year of life.
This brief guidance was developed by Alistair Burns, National Clinical Director for Dementia at NHS England/Improvement, and has been incorporated into NHS England publications.
This page brings together resources and information for any clinician or carer who finds themselves faced with providing care at the end of life during the COVID-19 pandemic.
View presentation slides from the Joint BGS, Macmillan and RCR OncoGeriatrics Meeting 2019 held on 27-28 February 2019 in London.
Samuel Willis describes the value of stories - telling them and listening to them. It creates bonds and humanises the teller and listener.