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| Commissioning better services for older people - the falls and bone health toolkit | President's Column | Editorial and letters to the editor |
The percentage of the population over 65 years will rise by 50 per cent within the next twenty-five years and that over 80 by around 80 per cent |
Care homes are now very much in the news More>> |
In my time as editor of this newsletter, I have aimed to make it a useful resource for the Society's largely clinician members Letters to the Editor More>> |
| Continuing care funding - National Framework | 'Changing Lives' - Human Rights | High Quality Care for All - Metrics, Clinical Dashboards and Geriatrics |
For many years, geriatricians, the general public and severabl high profile media campaigns bemoaned the inequity of the system across the country, for awarding continuing NHS care to the fortunate few |
The BIHR have published a second edition to their 'Changing Lives' document, celebrating the 60th anniversary of the HRA |
In 2008, Lord Darzi's report, High Quality Care for All, was published as the final part of the NHS Next Stage Review More>> |
| Cardiovascular - BGS Section Update | Priorities and Partnership Working | Undergraduate Teaching and the BGS |
| The BGS Cardiovascular Special Interest Group's Annual General Meeting was held in the stylish surroundings of the Crowne Plaza More>> |
Following the UKMC meeting in mid-July, I am pleased to report that we have agreed two priority areas for the BGS' communications activity over the next year |
I recently attended a lively Trent regional meeting on medical student education. It was a celebration of 30 years' teaching of elderly health care in Nottingham |
| No health without mental health | Geriatrics Education in Europe | Trainees Column |
| The Royal College of Psychiatrists was commissioned to produce a report about the link between physical and mental health and the need for better services More>> |
I would like to thank the BGS for sponsoring me to attend the course 'La Educacion Geriatria en Europa', Geriatrics Education in Europe, which took place in July in Spain More>> |
It is now time for me to step down and give someone else a chance. Our voice and solidarity as a group of trainees has improved over this time More>> |
| International Gerontology and Geriatrics - IAGG 2009 | Geriatrics in the News | BGS Autumn Scientific Meeting 2009 |
| The 19th World Congress of Gerontology and Geriatrics conference, held in Paris in July, attracted over 5,000 delegates from all around the world and was probably the largest ever gathering of geriatricians and gerontologists More>> |
Age based discrimination in health and social care services (Editorial published in the BMJ 2009, 339:b3400 - David Oliver How community geriatricians are the linchpin of elder care Article published in the HSJ, June 2009 - Stuart Shepherd |
Continuing the successful workshop format begun in Bournemouth, the BGS 2009 Autumn meeting features workshops on six topical themes |