Dr Fiona McGowan is a Senior Lecturer at the Hanze University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands, which is home to a rich environment for teaching and research into healthy aging. We are all living longer and societies globally are ageing. In the UK, the population of those aged over 90 is growing faster […]
Category: Care of the Older Person
Quality of life in Dementia
This weeks EBN Twitter chat is on Wednesday 17th July (8-9pm UK time) and will be discussing quality of life (QOL) in people with dementia. It is often assumed that a diagnosis of dementia is inevitably associated with a reduced QOL. Certainly, dementia makes a big impact on functional and cognitive status and this […]
Expert Nursing Care: Keeping People at Home
Roberta Heale, Associate Editor, EBN @robertaheale @EBNursingBMJ The global trend in the developed world is an aging population. Their care becomes more complex and “older persons accumulate chronic illness as they age”(1). Along with the aging comes higher use of the healthcare system, including increased contact with nurses and nurse practitioners(2).Multimorbidity, frailty, geriatric syndrome added to […]
Deprescribing! Get into it.
By Associate Editor, Roberta Heale, @robertaheale @EBNursingBMJ By the time they become geriatric, people in North America are often prescribed multiple medications per day. In Canada 2/3 of people over the age of 65 take at least 5 prescription medications per day and ¼ take at least 10 prescription medications per day. https://bit.ly/2sgpiOx There are medications […]
Frailty: It’s Not Just Old Age
Roberta Heale, Associate Editor EBN, @robertaheale @EBNursingBMJ The harsh winters in Canada where I live, have me thinking about the difficulties of living on your own as you age, particularly for those who are frail. A recent commentary of an article on the risk of fractures related to frailty 1,2 as well as a recent […]
Attitudes towards pressure ulcers
Join our next EBN Twitter Chat on Wednesday the 15th of November 2017, 8-9pm UK time which will focus attitudes towards pressure ulcers, and will be hosted by Jimmy Choo Lecturer at School of Healthcare, University of Leeds (@jimmychoo72). Participating in the Twitter chat requires a Twitter account; if you do not already have one […]
A vulnerable population – assessing and managing frailty in older prisoners
Kathryn Waldegrave, Lecturer – Adult Nursing & PhD student, School of Healthcare, University of Leeds, email – K.E.Waldegrave@leeds.ac.uk @waldyPhD An ageing prison demographic is fuelled by increasingly long sentences and historical cases being brought to prosecution. Many arguments suggest older prisoners should not be imprisoned, that the financial impact on the health and justice systems is too […]
International Council of Nurses Congress – Using Social Media to Engage with Nurses
Roberta Heale (@robertaheale) & Joanna Smith (@josmith175) Associate Editors, EBN We are presenting how Evidence Based Nursing (EBN) is using social media to engage with nurses at the International Council of Nurses (ICN) Congress, being help at the end of May 2017 in Barcelona, Spain. Nurses across the globe will be exploring nurses’ roles in leading the […]
To tell or not to tell? Honesty and hope in cancer nursing.
Jan Hunter, Lecturer in Nursing, University of Hull In the rather paternalistic past of the NHS, the established wisdom was that ‘doctor knew best’. If it was deemed a patient didn’t need to know they had a poor prognosis, then they didn’t find out (unless they had the wherewithal to put two and two together, […]
Turning Japanese – the global inequalities of ageing
Dr Fiona McGowan, School of Health Care Studies, Hanze University of Applied Sciences, Eyssoniusplein Netherlands f.e.mcgowan@pl.hanze.nl We are all very much aware of how societies are ageing and this ‘demographic transition ‘ is widely recognised as a global phenomenon. How this shift in population composition impacts health and illness is not so conclusive. While trends […]