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Creating a problem list as part of Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment can help identify all the issues to consider and will be helpful in drawing up a care plan.
More older people are undergoing surgery, but postoperative outcomes are worse than for younger patients. This case study looks at the Proactive Care of Older People undergoing Surgery (POPS) team at Guy's and St Thomas's.
This list of preferred and non-preferred terminology has been compiled to help healthcare professionals, academic authors and the general public avoid language that might be deemed unacceptable or inappropriate when describing the health of older people.
This section of the Delirium Hub contains resources which focus on staff training and how to educate patients and relatives.
This issue looks at how placing older people at the centre of their care helps to ensure their needs and wishes are met. This content is limited to members only.
This lecture, titled Impact beyond the patient in front of us, was given by Professor Finbarr C Martin on 17 November 2022 at the BGS Autumn Meeting 2022.
This section of the BGS guidance on end of life care in older people looks at the religious, spiritual and cultural aspects that may influence appropriate end of life care.
One of the joys of general practice is seeing the same patients over time and getting to know them and their families. I worked in the same small practice for over twenty years and saw people go from active sixty-somethings, slowing down in their seventies, and then becoming frail in their eighties.
This year’s theme for the International Day of Older Persons is digital equity for all ages. This is timely given the acceleration of the use of digital communications and services during the pandemic and the risks that some people, particularly older people, could be left behind.
This report, originally published in June 2015, summarises research commissioned by BGS and Age UK on older people's attitudes and feelings towards language around frailty.
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.
Around half of people aged over 70 who are admitted to hospital as an emergency have a cognitive disorder such as dementia. This BGS position statement sets out the principles of good person-centred care for older people admitted to acute hospitals with dementia.
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.
Presentations from 2021 South East and South West Thames Joint Region Meeting (4 CPD Points)
Although we’ve been in the grip of the pandemic for a little over a year now, in reality it feels more like a decade, with new restrictions, new lockdowns, and fortunately - thanks to vaccines and increased testing -, finally some new emerging hope that we may soon regain a semblance of normality.
Resy Manalo, Lalaine Lopez Pesario, Gilbert Barnedo, Elsie Sazuze, Suzanne Loverseed and Karen Hutton are some of the care home workers who lost their lives during the coronavirus pandemic.
Effective communication lies at the heart of all good healthcare. It is particularly important in the care of older people, because of the complexity of common exchanges.
I can’t believe that I hadn’t heard of the Sandwich Generation until I became a slice of meat squashed between two slices of bread. It was October 2019: my mother-in-law had sustained a large frontal lobe haemorrhage and my father-in-law was already living with Parkinson’s disease.
I have been a nurse since 1986, mainly working in end of life or dementia care. I have had a variety of roles in the hospital, care home, community and hospice settings. I have been a family carer (alongside my brother and sister) since 2002.
Chaired by BGS Past President Dr Eileen Burns, the five nation care home meeting gave participants an opportunity to share their experiences of managing COVID in care home settings and to compare what worked well and what didn’t.