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Doctors call for urgent stroke screening programme in bid to prevent 2,000 deaths a year
GPs would check pulses of everyone over 65 and refer those with irregular pulses for further testing A national screening programme for over-65s should be ‘urgently’ introduced to reduce the number of premature deaths caused by stroke, according to medical experts. The call to the UK and Scottish governments was … Continue reading
Dementia care: Hospitals ‘must make improvements’
Hospitals in England and Wales are falling short in the care given to dementia patients, a review says. The Royal College of Psychiatrists’ audit of 210 hospitals – the first of its kind – says while services are safe, they are lacking in other areas. The report highlights issues such … Continue reading
Plans for greater scrutiny of elderly care in England
Plans to “radically drive up” standards of social care in England to protect the elderly have been unveiled by the government. They include an online “good care guide” to allow family members to rate and review care homes and providers. Age UK “broadly welcomed” the rating suggestion but called for … Continue reading
‘Shame on us nurses’
Following the Care Quality Commission’s recent report on what it called “alarmingly” poor care for elderly hospital patients, leading nurse Prof Ian Peate says in this week’s Scrubbing Up that the profession should look again at how it trains people to look after older people. Once again we read about … Continue reading
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TV nurse Joanna Scanlan’s viewpoint on elderly care
Older patients are not getting the care they deserve according to actor Joanna Scanlan who portrays a nurse on an elderly ward in TV comedy, Getting On, and offers her hard-hitting personal view on the real-life goings on in British hospitals. Hospitals were told this week to improve care for … Continue reading
Why Angela Rippon says nurses can’t cope with dementia patients like her mother
Whenher mother was ill in hospital last year, Angela Rippon spent the first ten minutes of every visit making sure she apologised to the nursing staff. ‘My mother had had dementia for five years, and was going through a phase of being extremely aggressive and angry,’ the veteran broadcaster explains. … Continue reading
New technology to improve old age
New technology is being designed to help elderly people live independently for longer – an industry expected to increase as our population grows older. Jean Sawbridge had never used a computer until six months ago. The 93-year-old resident of Northfield Nursing Home in Sheffield now surfs the web every week … Continue reading
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NHS ‘must improve care of elderly surgery patients’
Hospitals must improve their care of elderly patients undergoing surgery, an independent review has concluded. Pain management, nutrition and delays were all highlighted as problems by experts from the National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death. Overall, just over a third of patients were judged to have had good … Continue reading
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Keeping elderly care in the family
As our population gets older, the cost of caring for the elderly and the demand on social care services is expected to rise. BBC News looks at why some families choose to care for their elderly relatives at home. Sue Cuomo left her own home and moved in with her … Continue reading
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Scandal that shames Britain: Campaign to end appalling treatment of the elderly on NHS wards
Tens of thousands of elderly people are suffering appalling care at the hands of the NHS every year – pushing complaints to a record high. For the first time last year, more than 100,000 patients and relatives were forced to issue complaints after being let down by the Health Service. … Continue reading
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