Patient and public involvement (PPI) has become a mandatory requirement of many research grants. This guide explores the implications and explains how to integrate public involvement in your research proposal and project.
This guideline is the most comprehensive and up to date document on how stroke care should be provided covering the whole pathway from pre-hospital care to long-term management.
Of interest to BGS members and visitors to this website: the Stroke Association are inviting applications for our UK Lectureship Awards and a Joint Stroke Association & Health and Care Research Wales Lectureship Award in the field of stroke.
Clinical guidelines and tailored resources from NICE on supporting people with dementia, mental wellbeing of older people in care homes and a video illustrating the NICE quality standards for mental wellbeing in care homes.
It is widely recognised that raised blood pressure is probably the single most important treatable risk factor for cardiovascular disease in later life. The evidence that older people can benefit from antihypertensive drugs has accumulated with a succession of randomised controlled trials over the past 35 years. These trials have shown reduced risk of stroke and myocardial infarction, as well as decreased total mortality.
The prevalence of visual impairment in stroke survivors has been reported as 72 per cent. This can be the result of a range of different problems. In the post stroke period, a person may be experiencing a visual impairment that is of new onset, or their visual problems may pre-exist the stroke.
Palliative care is an active, holistic approach to those facing life-threatening illness. Good palliative care allows us ‘to live as well as possible for as long as possible’; and includes support for those approaching the end of their life.
Healthcare in Africa is no longer just about infectious diseases. Stroke is now the second leading cause of death worldwide and hypertension is the leading risk factor for mortality worldwide, with most of the deaths occurring in low and middle-income countries (LMICs).
Specialist societies, clinical guidelines and audit standards all encourage us to assess cognition when patients present with stroke. Intuitively this seems like a sensible idea. What is less clear is how we should assess cognition in stroke.
The number of trained nurses available to treat patients immediately after a stroke is the most reliable health services predictor of survival according to research from the University of Aberdeen and University of East Anglia published in Age and Ageing.
The long-rumoured but now notorious “weekend effect” recently received scientific respectability from two huge studies, analysing routine data on 20 million hospital admissions. David Barer analyses the issue, and questions whether the weekend effect is all it appears.
Katie Honney reports on the inaugural BGS Eastern Region Geriatric SpR Research & Audit Presentation Day at Cambridge Science Park on 24 June 2016.
The conference will cover the latest scientific research and the best clinical practice in healthcare of older people. Our ageing population is stimulating extensive NHS service redesign to deal with the challenge of caring for larger numbers of older people both in and out of hospitals.
This event is a local forum covering the latest scientific research and the best clinical practice in care of older people.