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Information for healthcare professionals caring for older people during hot weather

07 September 2023

This article lays out UK Health Security Agency’s guidance on how healthcare professionals can best prepare for hot weather and how to look after patients in extreme heat.

Good practice guide

AGENDA: Issue 88 | Care homes

20 March 2023

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.

Members only

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Frailty Hub: Frailty in specific settings

23 June 2020

Collated resources on frailty in settings including care home medicine, emergency medicine, frailty units and community. Resources relevant to specialised services such as diabetes, heart failure and oncology can also be found here.

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Delirium Hub: Delirium in specific settings and situations

24 November 2021

This section of the BGS Delirium Hub focuses on managing delirium in specific settings and clinical situations.

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Age and Ageing collection: Care Homes

19 October 2021

The Age and Ageing care home collection and commentary draws together important papers that show how our journal is helping to shape and grow care home research.

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Happiness is home-made: Caring for care home staff

08 September 2021

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Ambitions for change: Improving healthcare in care homes

10 August 2021

This document describes the care home sector across the UK as it currently stands, how health and wellbeing has traditionally been supported in care homes and sets out what good healthcare provision in a care home environment should look like.

Position statement

The Patients Association Care Home Charter

27 January 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.

Fact sheet

COVID-19: Treatment for older people in the community

21 January 2021

This page brings together guidance and practical advice for the management of older adults with COVID-19 in the community, including drug treatment and examples of standard operating procedures (SOPs).

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Good practice guide

COVID-19: Managing the COVID-19 pandemic in care homes

First published 30 Mar 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic raises particular challenges for care home residents, their families and the staff that look after them. This guidance has been developed to help care home staff and NHS staff who work with them to support residents through the pandemic.

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Good practice guide

End of Life Care in Frailty: Care homes

12 May 2020

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.

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Clinical guidelines