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Bearing the brunt of covid-19: older people in low and middle income countries
British medical journal, 2020A global expert group on older people might be ...
P. Lloyd-Sherlock +3 more
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Nursing Management, 2010
A new website has been launched by the British Geriatrics Society (BGS) to provide access to information on the specialist care of older people. The site has a resources section that includes best-practice guides, clinical guidelines, consultation responses and the BGS bi-monthly newsletter.
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A new website has been launched by the British Geriatrics Society (BGS) to provide access to information on the specialist care of older people. The site has a resources section that includes best-practice guides, clinical guidelines, consultation responses and the BGS bi-monthly newsletter.
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2005
Abstract This chapter describes how social injustice adversely affects the health of older people and provides a variety of examples. It analyzes the roots and underlying causes of this social injustice, including poverty and inequalities associated with differences in socioeconomic status over the life course, the biomedicalization of ...
Carroll L. Estes, Steven P. Wallace
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Abstract This chapter describes how social injustice adversely affects the health of older people and provides a variety of examples. It analyzes the roots and underlying causes of this social injustice, including poverty and inequalities associated with differences in socioeconomic status over the life course, the biomedicalization of ...
Carroll L. Estes, Steven P. Wallace
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Nursing Management, 2008
My Home Life is a new web-based resource designed to improve the lives of older care homes residents.
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My Home Life is a new web-based resource designed to improve the lives of older care homes residents.
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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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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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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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Malnutrition Screening and Assessment in Hospitalised Older People: A Review
The Journal of Nutrition, Health & Aging, 2019Malnutrition (undernutrition) remains one of the most serious health problems for older people worldwide. Many factors contribute to malnutrition in older people, including: loss of appetite, polypharmacy, dementia, frailty, poor dentition, swallowing ...
E. Dent +4 more
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Nursing Older People, 2001
The RCN Gerontological Nursing Programme (GNP) is involved in a wide range of practice development projects within the independent sector and the NHS. These focus on developing person-centred care through the transformation of cultures and attitudes to older people.
Jayne Wright, Emma Pritchard
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The RCN Gerontological Nursing Programme (GNP) is involved in a wide range of practice development projects within the independent sector and the NHS. These focus on developing person-centred care through the transformation of cultures and attitudes to older people.
Jayne Wright, Emma Pritchard
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Voice assistants and older people: some open issues
International Conference on Conversational User Interfaces, 2019Voice Assistants (VAs) like Amazon Echo and Apple Siri are an increasingly popular way of interacting with a range of applications. VAs are also currently gaining traction in the HCI community.
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