Tag Archives: Multidisciplinary Teams

Review of Tube Feeding in Advanced Dementia (Journal of Aging Research)

Posted on December 22, 2019 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary A narrative literature review has investigated tube feeding in persons with advanced dementia, offering a comprehensive and unbiased attempt to achieve a balanced assessment of the perceived benefits and common disadvantages of such interventons, in broad terms of quality … Continue reading →

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Allied Health Professionals and Care Homes: the Enhanced Health in Care Homes Framework (NHS England)

Posted on July 21, 2019 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary NHS England has released a guide about ways in which allied health professionals (AHPs) can support the Enhanced Health in Care Homes (EHCH) framework, with a view to improving the health and wellbeing of care homes residents. Component activities … Continue reading →

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Integrated Care Research and Practice: Everything You Ever Wanted to Know (SCIE / DHSC)

Posted on June 20, 2019 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary The Integrated Care Research and Practice database, funded by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), aims to provide regularly updated information on the planning, commissioning and delivery of person-centred integrated care. Section headings comprise: Enablers of Integrated … Continue reading →

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Respiratory Futures (NHS England / NHS Improvement / British Thoracic Society / BBC News)

Posted on April 27, 2019 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary Respiratory Futures is an online hub, developed by NHS England, NHS Improvement and the British Thoracic Society, which provides an interactive regional map of integrated care plans for respiratory disease. There are also case studies, video interviews, links to … Continue reading →

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Frailty: Core Capabilities Framework (Skills for Health)

Posted on February 2, 2019 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary Skills for Health have produced the Frailty Core Capabilities Framework. This framework was commissioned by Health Education England and NHS England, and aims to formalise the skills to provide high quality, holistic, compassionate care and support for persons with … Continue reading →

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National Audit of Dementia Care in General Hospitals: Spotlight Audit on the Assessment of Delirium (HQIP / RCP / JGCR)

Posted on August 11, 2018 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary The Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership (HQIP) has published a spotlight audit on delirium in the care received by people with dementia in general hospitals in England and Wales. This audit finds: A large proportion (32%) of patients with dementia admitted … Continue reading →

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Alternative Approaches to Reducing Hospital Admissions / Re-Admissions (BBC News / British Red Cross / NESTA / King’s Fund)

Posted on February 8, 2018 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary The British Red Cross has proposed that home assessments, and comparatively simple interventions, when discharging old and vulnerable people for hospitals would help to reduce avoidable but predictable hospital re-admissions (and prevent many hospital admissions in the first place). … Continue reading →

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Elderly Major Trauma Patients: Guidelines (London Major Trauma System / Emergency Medicine Journal)

Posted on February 16, 2017 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary The 11.5 million people aged 65 and older is the fastest growing age group in the UK They comprise 18% of the population today, and this figure is projected to rise to 25% of the population by 2040. According … Continue reading →

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BBC’s State of the NHS: Keep Calm and Carry-On (BBC News)

Posted on February 10, 2017 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary Continuing in the vein of the broad theme of BMJ’s mini-series on the NHS in 2017, BBC News is currently running a short season of news pieces on the State of the NHS (and social care). Concentrating the Mind … Continue reading →

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Reshaping the Workforce: More Thoughts on Staff Engagement (NHS England / Nuffield Trust / BBC News)

Posted on September 15, 2016 by Dementia and Elderly Care News

Summary A recent Nuffield Trust report, commissioned by NHS Employers, discussed providing NHS nursing, community and support staff with additional skills to deliver care, as a means to improving the system’s capacity to cope with increasing (and changing) patient demand. … Continue reading →

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