Tag Archive for: elderly

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The Ethical Care Decision-Making Record – a cautiously optimistic response

The Royal College of Physicians (RCP), together with the General Medical Council (GMC), have just released…
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Social care and COVID-19: crisis or opportunity?

If a week is a long time in politics in normal times, then at the moment two years can feel like a geological…
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Happy Birthday NHS: Let’s not let a national good become a national god

Today (5 July 2018) marks seventy years since the world's first, free-at-the-point of delivery, universal…
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How to live longer, healthier and happier

It would be hard to have missed some of the recent glut of news articles on the importance of physical…
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Brilliant Resources to help Christians engage with the General Election on 8 June

On 8 June the UK goes to the polls for the general election. Whoever assumes power will have a profound…

Britain’s growing elderly population – a massive challenge

The UK is ‘woefully under-prepared for the social and economic challenges presented by an ageing society,…

The demographic time bomb is most marked in Japan

The demographic time bomb – whereby the elderly population assumes a greater and greater proportion…

The Liverpool Care Pathway – consensus statement from 22 organisations

Twenty two leading healthcare organisations last month published a statement about the Liverpool Care…
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World Elder Abuse Awareness Day – 15 June

Older people are today being warned not to fall prey to bogus retail and investment schemes, after…

Elderly care and the NHS reforms

A report today says compassion and dignity are as vital as academic and professional qualifications…

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