In advance of the general election on 4 July, BGS has outlined ten asks under three themes that the next Government needs to prioritise in order to improve healthcare for older people.
This final chapter reinforces the potential of rehabilitation for older adults and reflects on the current challenges of implementation, with some take-home messages.
This chapter looks at the workforce, training and physical space requirements for the delivery of rehabilitation, and considers some solutions to existing barriers.
This chapter links the themes in this report to the touchpoints described in the BGS Blueprint, Joining the dots.
This chapter provides an overview of rehabilitation as a beneficial intervention for many older people living with frailty, and the current situation across the four nations of the UK.
This chapter introduces the report with a foreword, executive summary and a roundup of our key messages.
The field of stroke medicine has seen significant advances and there is an ever increasing awareness that there are real opportunities to make a dramatic difference to stroke patients. Age and Ageing has charted our progress, publishing key research, and sharing ground-breaking ideas and knowledge. This online collection showcases some of the very best of such work.
The Centre for Perioperative Care, working in collaboration with the British Geriatrics Society, has published guidance for the care of people living with frailty undergoing elective and emergency surgery that encompasses the whole perioperative pathway.
This is the ninth blog in the BGS’s ‘Timely Discharge’ series. We aim to raise awareness of the detrimental effects on older people of being stuck in hospital when they are 'medically fit for discharge'. Our blog series explores the causes of delayed discharges, the knock-on effects to the wider health and social care system, and what needs to change.
This is the sixth blog in the BGS’s ‘Timely Discharge’ series. We aim to raise awareness of the detrimental effects on older people of being stuck in hospital when they are 'medically fit for discharge'. Our blog series explores the causes of delayed discharges, the knock-on effects to the wider health and social care system, and what needs to change.
This is the first blog in the BGS’s ‘Timely Discharge’ Blog Series which seeks to address the issue of older people getting stuck in hospital for want of care once they are discharged from a variety of perspectives.
The BGS Autumn Meeting 2023 takes place in Birmingham and online 22-24 November.
This online meeting will focus on providing comprehensive, up-to-date information and practical tips from leading international experts in the field.