Can the lived experience of migration be drawn on to promote healthy ageing?
Evidence and Practice
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Can the lived experience of migration be drawn on to promote healthy ageing?
Ways in which nursing and care home staff could support older people with hearing loss
Surface-acted empathy can function as a compassionate tool but should not replace empathic engagement
Clinical
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Ways in which nursing and care home staff could support older people with hearing loss
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Surface-acted empathy can function as a compassionate tool but should not replace empathic engagement
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How an Admiral Nurse service implemented a care pathway in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly
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How a nurse and physiotherapist hospital model provides acute care for older adults
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Understanding key steps can help nurses feel confident to change their practice
CPD articles
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Approaching sexual health care as part of routine assessments can promote holistic nursing care
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Nurses' ability in ACP can be improved by training, mentoring and a collaborative work culture
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Linking the UN Decade of Healthy Ageing to person-centred care and the value of social prescribing
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Nurses need to understand how care work is conceived within the home and what needs then arise
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How nurses can measure loneliness or social isolation and interventions that can help to reduce them
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An overview of technology-enabled virtual wards and barriers to their use in older people’s care
How to
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Enhance or refresh your knowledge of the six key domains of a CGA
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A positive relationship between the family carer and the new care provider can improve outcomes
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Nurses must ensure that information, services and multidisciplinary team support are accessible
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Tips for nurses on preparation, equipment and procedures to help ensure they reach the desired audience
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Understanding how unconscious bias in older people nursing can increase the risk of ageism
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Mouth care should be prioritised in nursing and care homes to help prevent dental diseases
Practice question
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Nurses can help by advising on modifiable risks and through health education and promotion
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Ascertaining patients’ background, an overlooked skill, supports diagnosis and management
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Initiatives aim to enhance health and quality of life, with nursing staff playing a key role
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Signs and symptoms and what to consider when assessing a patient for early-stage dementia
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Awareness of the components can help with healthy ageing and reduce NHS pressures
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The condition is a medical emergency – but various approaches can guide its nursing care
Research focus
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Frailty is a recognised state of increased vulnerability to adverse outcomes resulting from an interaction of physical, psychological, socio-economic and co-morbidity factors. As a...
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A combination of two historic papers and one new paper has provided evidence on deconditioning in older people during hospitalisation.
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UK policy and guidance state that people should have their preferences and priorities for end of life care recorded in the form of an advance care plan.
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Compiled by Vicki Leah, nurse consultant for older people, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London
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Three research articles of interest to nurses of older people
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Summaries of three studies into issues of concern for older people's nurses
