This document reports the work of the Hospital Personal Aid Service during 1958. The Service undertook visits, on behalf of hospitals, to elderly people awaiting admission to hospital whose medical condition did not warrant immediate admission to an acute ward.
It was suggested that the future of efficient hospital library services could only be assured if fuller knowledge were available of existing services and their cost. This survey of a limited area was undertaken to prepare the way for a conference of all interested bodies in the country. The terms ...
This booklet is for wardens and matrons who are catering for elderly people in residential accommodation and who seek guidance about changes in diets which may be necessary. The first few paragraphs are concerned with general principles of feeding elderly people, and the remainder of the booklet gives more detailed ...
The idea of finding out which particular noises in hospitals were most worrying to patients was considered by the King's Fund in 1956 and it was decided that the hospital visitors should make special enquiries during the course of their visits to London hospitals. The resulting comments, which were made ...