| BGS
Newsletter Online |
| Editor:
David Oliver |
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Index
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| New Guidelines on Advance Care Planning |
President's Column |
Editorial |
In April 2007, the Mental Capacity Act came into force. The Act, in combination with NHS initiatives to improve end of life care generally, mans that we are likely to see an increase in advance care planning.
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In this issue, I will focus on ideas which could stimulate and inform us and help us ensure that old people get the very best care in a constantly changing NHS.
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The government in England is proposing to unite the various pieces of law on equality and discrimination under the umbrella of one "Equality Bill".
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Letters to the editor>> |
Half of doctors say NHS is ageist
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End of Life Care |
A political appetite for wellness in older people? |
Just days after the publication of the NHS constitution, promising equal treatment regardless of age, new research shows almost half of doctors specialising in the care of older people think that the NHS is institutionally ageist.
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EoLC - background, cost and more
by Martin Curtice
Multiple Conditions, multiple challenges - by Lucy Sutton, NCPC
EoLC - implications for geriatricians
by E Burns
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In July 2008 the IPPR produced its report entitled ‘Older People and Wellbeing’ (Allen, 2008). This report is the first in and a series on older people and their well being as part of a programme exploring the ‘Politics of Ageing.’
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| A NEW exercise video with a difference! |
Ageing and Academic Geriatric Medicine - quo vadis? |
Patients at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge are the first in the country to have exercise classes boradcast straight to their bedside
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Background and online poll>>
It's broken. Let's fix it (John Gladman)>>
Visiting Professorships (Tash Masud)
A view from the coalface (Roger Jay)
I am the only academic in the village (James Frith)>> |
Chairs are therapeutic tools (Adam Gordon)>>
Academic Geriatric Medicine - from the desk of Professor and BGS President (Graham Mulley)
Academic geriatrics is dead - long live ageing research (Simon Conroy)>> |
| UK Clinical Research Network - Age and Ageing Specialty Group Chair |
Trainees Column |
Fallers' clinics - you say tomatoes, I say... |
Professor Marion McMurdo from the University of Dundee has been appointed to chair the Age and Ageing specialty group of the UK Clinical Research Network
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Knowledge based assessment; dual accrediation in Geriatrics and G(I)M; and more>>
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As part of the 9th wave in October 2003, the subject of "Fallers' Clinics" was referred to NICE for a "multiple technology appraisal". More>> |
| BGS Falls and Bone Health Section - from strength to strength |
Geriatricians - not old (hat) and certainly not useless |
Alcohol and older people |
The Falls and Bone Health Section was founded in 2001. A handful of interested practitioners and researchers were there. More>>
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Ian Thompson rebuffs a rather disparaging editorial written in the JRSM
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22% of men and 11% of women over the age of 65 in the UK exceed government recommended “sensible limits” for regular alcohol consumption and these proportions are steadily rising.
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| In memoriam |
BGS 2009 Spring Meeting in Bournemouth |
Dr Campbell Ball, formerly Consultant in Geriatric Medicine in Belfast City, Musgrave Park and Lagan Valley Hospitals was born on 18 January 1924. More>>
We also regret to report the passing of Dr Frank Robertson, formerly of Bishop Auckland in County Durham |
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The Spring 2009 BGS Meeting in Bournemouth is fast approaching. For those of you waivering as to whether to come or not, here are some good reasons not to miss out.
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| Letter from Europe |
Age and Ageing Online |
New Educational Resource |
| The EUGMS is an umbrella organisation which brings together the national societies of all the European Union and EFTA (Iceland, Norway and Switzerland) countries and has observers from Israel, Turkey, aspirant nations to the EU and the IAGG, UEMS and EAMA. More>> |
Are you aware that as a subscriber to Age and Ageing you have free access to the journal online? In fact every issue of Age and Ageing has been archived on our website and you can access any article or supplement we have published since 1972.
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We are now happy to announce that the 'Educational Resource on Ageing' set up from the Section of Ageing & Health, University of Dundee is open and running after a successful initial trial phase. More>> |
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