This paper is a collection of reports on several sessions held on specific issues and innovative projects. Topics covered include:- Old age - the age of change ; Waterloo Pensioners' Health Group; pensioners' health courses in Barnet ; collaboration in the care of confusion ; neighbours as a resource ; ...
These information sheets will be of use to health service staff or community health councils who wish to find out the views of elderly users of health services. The purposes of these sheets is: 1) to give some useful reading references for this field; 2) to give details of some ...
This resource list contains information on selected books, journal articles, films, tapes and exercises which may be useful in training staff or volunteers who are working with `confused', `mentally infirm' or `mentally ill' elderly people. It does not set out to provide a blue print for a programme of training ...
This report describes the King's Fund provision of homes for elderly people who do not require continued hospital treatment, but do need somewhere to go before returning to their own homes. Although the day-to-day running of these homes is undertaken by voluntary organisations, the hospital services undertake to accept responsibility ...
This document reports the work of the Hospital Personal Aid Service during 1955. The Service undertook visits, on behalf of hospitals, to elderly people awaiting admission to hospital whose medical condition did not warrant immediate admission to an acute ward.
This booklet is for wardens and matrons who are catering for elderly people in residential accommodation and who seek guidance about changes in diets which may be necessary. The first few paragraphs are concerned with general principles of feeding elderly people, and the remainder of the booklet gives more detailed ...
This document reports the work of the Hospital Personal Aid Service during 1958. The Service undertook visits, on behalf of hospitals, to elderly people awaiting admission to hospital whose medical condition did not warrant immediate admission to an acute ward.
This document reports the work of the Hospital Personal Aid Service during 1960. The Service undertakes to visit, on behalf of hospitals, elderly people awaiting admission to hospital whose medical condition does not warrant immediate admission to an acute ward although no patient is visited and no action is taken ...
This document reports the work of the Hospital Personal Aid Service during 1959. The Service undertook visits, on behalf of hospitals, to elderly people awaiting admission to hospital whose medical condition did not warrant immediate admission to an acute ward.
This document reports the results of a Committee of which the terms of reference were : to ensure in Lewisham full co-operation between all services for the elderly, to ascertain what gaps existed and how they could be best filled. The Special Committee agreed to look particularly at the application ...
This booklet is for wardens and matrons who are catering for elderly people in residential accommodation and who seek guidance about changes in diet which may be necessary. the first few paragraphs are concerned with general principles of feeding elderly people and the remainder of the booklet gives more detailed ...
The precise nutritional needs of old people are unknown. In an attempt to discover levels of intake compatible with health it was decided to carry out a survey of the dietary needs of elderly women living alone, and to make a clinical assessment of the subjects. The survey results are ...
This purpose of this booklet is to illustrate some of the good ideas and practices that have already been introduced, or are being planned, in the provision of services for elderly people in hospital, community and the home. The information was collected in preparation for an exhibition and conference held ...
This book consists of a series of papers on various aspects of day hospitals for elderly people in Great Britain and Northern Ireland in 1970. The author stresses that the reason for and the primary role of the day hospital are therapeutic and the major reasons for their use are ...
In 1962, sixty women living alone took part in a seven-day weighed diet survey. When the dietary intake of women in their early and late seventies was compared it was found that there was a decline in dietary intake of as much as 30 per cent in some nutrients between ...
This publication contains reports on a series of twelve conferences held at the Hospital Centre between June-December 1970 on the subject of services for the elderly in hospital and community. These reports have been prepared largely at the request of the conference participants who asked for a record of the ...