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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.
Rose Miranda argues that not only researchers, doctors and nurses should be aware of the phenomenon of pain in people with dementia. We need to make the public aware of it too.
What is mental capacity? What do we really mean when we ask if a patient has (or lacks) capacity? Capacity often depends on context. The ethical conundrum of mental capacity unravelled.
This statement sets out the BGS position on assisted dying, our priorities for end of life care, and our concerns that effective legal safeguards cannot be created to protect older people from unwarranted harms.
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.
Learn more on the importance of diagnosis and managing chronic kidney disease in older adults through this collection from Age and Ageing in collaboration with the ERA journals Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation (NDT) and Clinical Kidney Journal (CKJ).
Perspectives on the COVID-19 pandemic and its affect on members' mental and emotional health, aired at the BGS Autumn Meeting 2020.
This section of the BGS guidance on end of life care in older people collates relevant external resources and signposting links for easy reference
This section of the BGS guidance on end of life care in older people looks at the final days of life in people with frailty.
This section of the BGS guidance on end of life care in older people covers legal and ethical implications.
This section of the BGS guidance on end of life care in older people looks at the needs of those approaching the end of their lives in prison.
This section of the BGS guidance on end of life care in older people covers the specific considerations of providing end of life care in care home settings.
This section of the BGS guidance on end of life care in older people looks at how good end of life care in frail older people can be achieved in the community.
This section of the BGS guidance on end of life care in older people looks at specific issues which may arise in people living with dementia towards the end of life.
This section of the BGS guidance on end of life care in older people encourages the multidisciplinary team to consider social, practical and emotional needs.
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.
People with dementia are not children. They are adults with a lifetime’s experience. Yet they are not entirely dissimilar. They are vulnerable and they can be as distressed and disoriented as a child.
Presentations from our recent conference, Living and dying well with frailty which took place on the 6th March 2018
Clinical guidelines from the BGS / RCP and the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) on advance care planning, multimorbidity and the risks associated with cold homes in winter.