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Editor: David Oliver	December 2008	Index of Articles
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Torfaen ACAT Programme	President's Column	Editorial
Torfaen's community based programme for older people, offering assessment, diagnostics and treatment in the patient's home on the day of referral, recently won the national 2008 BUPA Foundation Care Award. More>>	On the day I visited Dublin, 15,000 'grey panthers' were marching on the streets of Dublin, protesting about the government's threat to cut medical card entitlements to some of the over 70's More>>	The total number of arrests of elderly people exceeded the arrests of teenagers - 880 arrests (mostly for shoplifting, against 642 teenager arrests for the same offence) More>> Letter to the Editor from Roy Latham, lay representative on the BGS Policy Cme More>>
BGS 2008 Autumn meeting report	Knowledge by Assessment and Revalidation	No Secrets Consultation why you need to be involved
The definition of ageing is being shaken up and re-defined for the 21st century More>>	Autumn meeting update by Jessica Beavan; and update by Dr Oliver Corrado, Lead Physician on the KBA/SE Geriatric Medicine More>>	It is estimated that there are 342,400 incidents of mistreatment of vulnerable adults in the UK each year. More>>
Assisted dying: from Hippocrates to the 21st century - a polish slippery slope?	Marjory Warren at work
The slippery slope is no fiction; it is already well polished. We do not want physician-assisted suicide to become a treatment option. More>>	In a rare find, we have been given two photographs of Marjory Warren in action, taken by Dr Basagoitia Aviles when he worked with her in the 1960's. More>>
Trainees column	Keep on Walking
Once again, the main topic of discussion at our meeting in Autumn, was KBA More>>	NICE recently produced its first public health guidance aimed a primary care and residential care on interventions that promote the mental wellbeing of older people More>>
In memoriam	BGS 2009 Spring Meeting in Bournemouth
Dr David Levy Dr Nessie Maybin Dr Jed Rowe		On behalf of the local organising committee. I invite you to come to Bournemouth between 1 - 3 April for the British Geriatrics Society Spring Meeting in 2009 More>>
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