This issue features how to help maintain good oral health in older people and gives a snapshot of the political landscape following the appointment of a new Prime Minister.
Providing healthcare to older adults is often extremely challenging. Patients often have multiple long-term conditions, and present to healthcare in atypical ways. Doctors need to be highly competent communicators with knowledge of medical ethics, social care and palliative medicine.
This issue examines and connects frailty improvement initiatives that exist across the country, and includes results from a BGS trainee survey on less-than-full-time working.
A NICE/SCIE quick guide for care home managers and home care managers providing medicines support.
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has published an updated Quality Standard on dementia describing high-quality care in priority areas for improvement.
This NIHR CLAHRC toolkit provides a suite of resources that commissioners can use to plan, implement and monitor the FaME programme.
This toolkit provides expert practical advice and guidance on how to commission and provide the best system wide care for people living with frailty.
View and download slides from the BGS Scotland Spring Meeting & NRS Ageing Specialty Group held on 26 April 2019 in Edinburgh.
This standard has been jointly produced by the British Orthopaedic Association (BOA), the British Geriatrics Society (BGS) and other organisations.
Held in Cardiff on 10-12 April, the BGS Spring Meeting was another hugely successful event celebrating the best of care and medicine for older people. Liz Gill reports on some of the highlights of the packed three-day programme.
This is the fifth edition of the BGS Mersey Region Newsletter. The purpose of this newsletter is to share news from within the region.