This document is a personal view of the current issues of acute care in London based on the author's experience of working in the south east segment of inner London. It is a view informed by impressions gained in working in five different London teaching and postgraduate hospitals and the ...
In this booklet the author describes how the team introduced a user-friendly tool for assessing the nutrition of elderly patients on their ward and a flexible health promotion programme to meet the special requirements of the patients and their carers. This series looks at some ways nurses in Nursing Development ...
This report provides a users' perspective on acute health services in London. It begins with an overview of the situation in the capital and proceeds, by considering two vulnerable groups - elderly people and single homeless people, to look in detail at aspects of acute services which are of concern ...
In this booklet, the author, a ward sister, describes how she consulted carers on how to provide effective ward services for elderly people and how the team has set about meeting the carers needs. This series looks at some ways nurses in Nursing Development Units (NDUs) have tried to make ...
The care of elderly people is a matter of both increasing urgency and major uncertainty. Community care policies have come under increasing scrutiny over the past decade, and three factors have been particularly influential: an awareness of an ageing population, allied with other demographic and social changes that are likely ...