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What is health promotion and how can it be used with older people?
Health promotion covers a wide range of initiatives to enhance and protect health and qual
How do I support the recognition of early-stage dementia in healthcare settings?
Timely dementia diagnosis is crucial and has been flagged as a target in primary care.
What are the components of healthy ageing?
Nurses’ awareness of the components and their effect on older people can help with healthy
How nurses can use assessment tools to detect delirium in older people – and manage it
Assessment tools like 4AT can detect delirium – which can be missed in people with dementi
How can you identify and respond to deconditioning in an older person?
Nurses can help manage the risk of deconditioning syndrome in older people in hospital by
A comprehensive geriatric assessment helps nurses support older people living with frailty
How should nurses promote equality, diversity and inclusion?
Equality, diversity and inclusion is a responsibility for everyone and health and social c
What is the difference between delirium and dementia?
Delirium and dementia are two distinct disorders, but they have overlapping symptoms which
Why is measurement of lying and standing blood pressure vital in falls risk assessment?
A drop in blood pressure on standing is more prevalent in older people with multiple comor
How do I use the 4AT tool for delirium?
Delirium is common in older people but should be treated as a time-critical change in ment
Build your nursing expertise with the help of communities of practice
How nurses can enhance and develop their professional identity, nurture new knowledge, cul
How do I get involved in nursing research?
By continually refreshing their knowledge through research, nursing and care staff can enh
Advanced nurse practitioners caring for older people need to raise the role’s profile
Nurses have a key role in the rehabilitation of people in long-term care
Nurses can help counter the physical and cognitive decline of older people
Frailty identification instruments improve patient outcomes, enhance car
Delirium is now recognised as a common symptom of coronavirus, and older people living in l
The best way to share your research is to write an abstract for presentation at a conferenc
