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ÍâÍøÌìÌà Clinical topics

• Older people
• Frailty in older people

ÍâÍøÌìÌà (2024) Eyes right: older people and driving. ÍâÍøÌìÌÃ: London.

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ÍâÍøÌìÌà (2023) Caring for older people: the essential role of the care home nurse. London: ÍâÍøÌìÌÃ.

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Age UK: Information guides and factsheets 

• Information aimed at the general public.
  

James van Oppen (2022) What matters to older people with frailty in hospital? NIHR Evidence summary.

NHS England (2019) NHS RightCare frailty tool kit. Optimising a frailty system.

NHS England: Frailty resources

Older People’s Commissioner for Wales

We would like to thank the ÍâÍøÌìÌà Older People's member community for their input into the development of this subject guide.

Barrett C and Hinchliff S (2017) Addressing the sexual rights of older people. London: Routledge.

Cameron A P (2022) Female urinary incontinence. Cham: Springer International.

Cunningham S and Moore T (2021) Nursing skills in supporting mobility. London: Routledge.

Day M, McCarthy G and Fitzpatrick J (2018) Self-neglect in older adults: a global, evidence-based resource for nurses and other health care providers. New York, NY: Springer.

Ellett A (2023) Getting dementia care right: what’s not working and how it can change. Health Professions.

Gomes F (2022) Frailty in older adults with cancer. Cham: Springer International.

Isik A T and Grossberg G T (2018) Delirium in elderly patients. Cham: Springer International.

Rahman S (2019) Living with frailty: from assets and deficits to resilience. Oxon: Routledge.

Rahman S, Inouye S, MacLullich A, Davis D and Arora A (2020) Essentials of delirium: everything you really need to know for working in delirium care. London:  Jessica Kingsley.

Randell A (2014) Delirium: diagnosis, management and prevention. New York: Novinka.

Ross F, Harris R G, Fitzpatrick J, Abley C and Redfern S J (2024) Redfern's nursing older people. 5th edn. Edinburgh: Elsevier.

Rovensky, Jozef (2017) Gerontorheumatology. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

Tampi R R, Tampi D J, Young J J et al. (2022) Essential reviews in geriatric psychiatry. Cham: Springer International.

Ebersole P, Touhy T A, Jett K F and Hess P (2020) Ebersole and Hess’ toward healthy aging: human needs and nursing response. 10th edn. St Louis: Elsevier Mosby.

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Journals of interest for the care of older people. Use these links to see details of availability.

ÍâÍøÌìÌà exhibition: Aspects of age

• Explore the shift from institutional to home care over two centuries of older people’s nursing, from the workhouses of the Victorian era to the hospital, care home and beyond. In an ageing population, we ask how nursing can improve the lives of those over 75.
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