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Orthostatic hypotension (OH) is a frequent finding in many of our older patients. It often causes dizziness, unsteadiness and contributes to falls.
The latest NICE guidelines recommend that opportunities to participate in research should be available to people living with dementia at all stages of the condition.
We’re all occasionally tempted to consider ourselves immune to the ageing process. I am a consultant of more than 20 years, yet I can’t help but think of myself as a peer to the new consultants and junior staff I work with.
What makes you go ‘hmm…?’ about occupational therapy in the UK? Well, the Royal College of Occupational Therapists in collaboration with the James Lind Alliance has launched a UK-wide survey to find out.
The Stroke Association are inviting applications for their UK Lectureship Awards in the field of stroke.
When I finished my undergraduate physiotherapy degree I wouldn’t have predicted that a research career was ahead of me! As a newly qualified physiotherapist I began to realise that I had many unanswered questions.
Despite broader currents of ageism within and without medicine, geriatricians are fortunate to be working with people at the richest stage of life, and in a specialty that is intellectually stimulating and professionally rewarding.
Do you know how many people in your hospital are living with frailty? Do you know where these patients are in your hospital? Why does it matter?
The March 2019 issue of Age and Ageing, the journal of the British Geriatrics Society is out now.
This review features 53 studies funded by the National Institute of Health Research, which was set up to address the needs of the NHS.
The NIHR Funder Resource Pack is designed to strengthen connections between research funders and the Clinical Research Network, to help improve research delivery in the NHS.