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This checklist is intended to support BGS members across the system to make changes to ensure that winter is a little easier for older people this year.
Vaccination remains a central component of the UK’s public health strategy to protect older adults against seasonal respiratory infections, particularly during the winter months.
BGS key messages have been developed to provide members and multidisciplinary colleagues with topline information about specific issues relating to older people's healthcare. We encourage discussion of these issues with decision-makers and other stakeholders.
This article lays out UK Health Security Agency’s guidance on how healthcare professionals can best prepare for cold weather and how to look after older adults when temperatures drop below freezing.
This chapter sets explains what proactive care is, introducing the core components and key enablers for delivery.
This publication outlines how to deliver proactive care against core components and key enablers, acting as a roadmap for implementing the NHS England framework and delivering proactive care services. This introduction includes a foreword, executive summary and an outline of the 12 recommendations.
There are three times as many care home beds as acute hospital beds in the UK. This issue focuses on the significant group of older people who live with frailty in care homes. This content is limited to members only.
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.
A selection of case presentations on community geriatric services and initiatives which were first presented at the BGS Autumn Meeting 2021 (24-26 November).
This section of the BGS Delirium Hub focuses on managing delirium in specific settings and clinical situations.
The West Midlands Region Autumn Meeting 2021 was held on 24 September 2021
The Patients Association's Care Home Charter was launched in 2019 to improve medication practices for people living in care homes across the UK.
The PRINCIPLE trial aims to find treatments for COVID-19 for older people and stop them needing to go to hospital. The trial is recruiting participants through its website and GP practices across the UK.
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.
GeriGPs and the GeriGP group of the BGS offer a constructive solution to some of the challenges facing the NHS.
The first article in our fun-guarding series, George Coxon sets out what fun-guarding is and why it is important.
The Royal College of Physicians Falls and Fragility Fracture Audit Programme (FFFAP) has developed a series of patient and public centred resources to support better care.
Health Education England has commissioned an educational film, in collaboration with Public Health England’s Primary Care Unit, on the treatment of UTIs in older adults
Over 400,000 older people in the UK live in care homes, including nearly one in six over-85s, and they often have complex health and social care needs. We have produced guidance for commissioners to promote better models of medical care for care home residents.