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Nursing Management, 2005
A user friendly website designed to give older people advice on how to prevent themselves falling has been developed by the University of Southampton, Help the Aged, and healthcare software specialists Riomed.
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A user friendly website designed to give older people advice on how to prevent themselves falling has been developed by the University of Southampton, Help the Aged, and healthcare software specialists Riomed.
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Nursing Older People, 2003
This article considers some causes of cancer, diagnostic assessments and treatment options, as well as some of the myths surrounding the appropriate care of older people with cancer. It stresses the importance of employing the specialist knowledge of gerontological and cancer professionals in caring for the older person with cancer, and emphasises the ...
Candy, Cooley, Glyn, Coventry
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This article considers some causes of cancer, diagnostic assessments and treatment options, as well as some of the myths surrounding the appropriate care of older people with cancer. It stresses the importance of employing the specialist knowledge of gerontological and cancer professionals in caring for the older person with cancer, and emphasises the ...
Candy, Cooley, Glyn, Coventry
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Nursing Standard, 2001
Vaccinating older people remains a priority in the specialty of public health. However, medical practitioners, pharmacists, carers and family members and the media need to make a special effort to inform and educate older people of the need to protect themselves against certain diseases, such as influenza, pneumococcal pneumonia and tetanus.
D, Steimle, R, Aston, P, Van Damme
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Vaccinating older people remains a priority in the specialty of public health. However, medical practitioners, pharmacists, carers and family members and the media need to make a special effort to inform and educate older people of the need to protect themselves against certain diseases, such as influenza, pneumococcal pneumonia and tetanus.
D, Steimle, R, Aston, P, Van Damme
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Nursing Older People, 2009
ONE OF the downsides of a youth- oriented society is that it assumes older people are not sexual beings. But many older people may consider sexual activity and its associated feelings to be a natural part of later life. Last year, for example, a survey published in the British Medical Journal found that the self-reported quantity and quality of sexual ...
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ONE OF the downsides of a youth- oriented society is that it assumes older people are not sexual beings. But many older people may consider sexual activity and its associated feelings to be a natural part of later life. Last year, for example, a survey published in the British Medical Journal found that the self-reported quantity and quality of sexual ...
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Nursing Older People, 2006
Nearly a third of older people admitted for acute hospital care experience depression. Rates of depression are even higher in care homes. The purpose of this article is to raise awareness among nurses of this debilitating condition and its potentially fatal consequences, and to suggest interventions that can bring about improvement.
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Nearly a third of older people admitted for acute hospital care experience depression. Rates of depression are even higher in care homes. The purpose of this article is to raise awareness among nurses of this debilitating condition and its potentially fatal consequences, and to suggest interventions that can bring about improvement.
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European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology, 2013
So wrote Robert Browning in his poem ‘Rabbi Ben Ezra’, sentiments echoed a century later by John Lennon in what turned out to be probably his last composition, shortly before his death. There is no doubt that the number of people who are managing to grow old is greater now than ever.
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So wrote Robert Browning in his poem ‘Rabbi Ben Ezra’, sentiments echoed a century later by John Lennon in what turned out to be probably his last composition, shortly before his death. There is no doubt that the number of people who are managing to grow old is greater now than ever.
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Nursing Management, 2011
Interlinks is a Europe-wide project to create a resource aimed at improving long-term care for older people. The project has developed.
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Interlinks is a Europe-wide project to create a resource aimed at improving long-term care for older people. The project has developed.
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Psychiatric Clinics of North America, 2011
The popular contention that preoccupation with bodily functions is characteristic of older age has been accepted by the lay and medical community on the basis of received wisdom. The reality is that somatic presentations of distress have been largely ignored by geriatric (or old age) psychiatry for a number of reasons.
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The popular contention that preoccupation with bodily functions is characteristic of older age has been accepted by the lay and medical community on the basis of received wisdom. The reality is that somatic presentations of distress have been largely ignored by geriatric (or old age) psychiatry for a number of reasons.
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Current Treatment Options in Neurology, 2000
When possible, treatment should be directed at the underlying cause of vertigo. The particle repositioning maneuver is a simple curative bedside treatment for benign paroxysmal positional vertigo. Symptomatic therapy using antivertiginous drugs can be used with specific treatments or when no specific treatment is available.
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When possible, treatment should be directed at the underlying cause of vertigo. The particle repositioning maneuver is a simple curative bedside treatment for benign paroxysmal positional vertigo. Symptomatic therapy using antivertiginous drugs can be used with specific treatments or when no specific treatment is available.
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Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 1992
Patients use the term dizziness to describe a sensation of altered orientation in space. Because visual, proprioceptive, somatosensory and vestibular signals provide the main information about the position of the head and body in space, damage to any of these systems can lead to a complaint of dizziness.
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Patients use the term dizziness to describe a sensation of altered orientation in space. Because visual, proprioceptive, somatosensory and vestibular signals provide the main information about the position of the head and body in space, damage to any of these systems can lead to a complaint of dizziness.
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