This weeks’ blog is by Ewan James, Assistant Psychologist at Hertfordshire University NHS Trust (e.james27@nhs.net) Behavioural and emotional changes are common in those living with dementia. Such phenomena are referred to as ‘Behaviours that Challenge’ (BtC), and include aggression, self-harm, avoidance, depression, shouting, and a lack of self-care amongst other things. While the behaviours often […]
Category: Care of the Older Person
How could AI have an impact on the lives of people living with dementia?
This weeks’ blog is by Dr Catharine Jenkins, Associate Professor, Dementia Care, Birmingham City University (catharine.jenkins@bcu.ac.uk). This blog is the second in our theme focusing on artificial intelligence. Artificial Intelligence (AI), like Evidence-Based Practice, uses previous knowledge to expand on, reframe and develop new ideas. In this blog, catharine.jenkins@bcu.ac.uk, interviews ChatGPT, and interrogates it as […]
The Overlooked Crisis: Trauma Care for Older Adults in a Strained Nursing Workforce
This week’s blog is written by Hanna Järbrink, a specialist nurse surgical care, PhD student, and research nurse at the Department of surgery and trauma care, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Sweden. The Growing Burden of Trauma in an Aging Population As the global population ages, the number of older adults requiring trauma care is rising rapidly […]
The challenges of Implementing evidence into practice: The case of lifting cushion use in care homes
This weeks’ blog is by Fiona Cowdell, Professor of Nursing and Health Research (fiona.cowdell@bcu.ac.uk) and Judith Dyson, Professor of Implementation Science (judith.dyson@bcu.ac.uk) Preventing falls in care homes is policy and practice gold standard. But when falls happen, the protocol for many care homes in the UK is to call an ambulance. Sometimes an older […]
Everyday challenges of being a nurse team leader: “Do you have two minutes?”
Blog by Jo McVey (Lecturer of Mental Health Nursing) at Glasgow Caledonian University. Being a Nurse Team Leader in Older Adult Community Mental Health Services is three-fold: there is the management of staff, the management of a caseload of patients, and the management of a service. The advice given is “be prepared and be organised,” […]
Canada’s New Long-Term Care Standards- Accountability & Risk Management on a Mission
Author: Gisele Guenard, BScN, MEd, VisionarEase Inc. & associates CEO, Founder – Client Centered Governance ® Essentials Certification & Nonprofit strategic planning services. @GGVisionarEase Warehouses for Death – Decades ago, research I completed for an undergrad paper drove me to pen ‘Warehouses for Death’ as its title. Accountability and risk management were not part of […]
Dementia and Pain Assessment: Nurse’s Crucial Role
By Roberta Heale, Associate Editor EBN @robertaheale @EBNursingBMJ I read an alarming study last week. The paper cited several aims, with an overarching goal to determine the quality of end-of-life care in nursing homes. A survey was given pre and post the delivery of educational seminars to 320 care staff from 22 residential care homes […]
The Question(s) of Frailty….
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 […]
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 […]