Older people

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1. Fragility fractures – State of the nation Wales report 2022 (9 March 2023)

   • Older People (over 65)
   • Falls
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     • Older People (over 65)
     • Falls
     • Surgery - Trauma and orthopaedic
     • Hospital ward
     • Wales

   By Patient-Safety-Learning, 17 March

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   • 17 March

2. Royal College of Physicians: Falls and Fragility Fracture Audit Programme (FFFAP) patient resources

   • Falls
   • Slip/ fall
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     • Falls
     • Slip/ fall
     • Older People (over 65)
     • Patient
     • Carer
     • Patient / family support
     • Surgery - Trauma and orthopaedic

   By Patient Safety Learning, 16 March

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   • 16 March

3. Interview with Dr Elena Mucci, Consultant Geriatrician at East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust

   • Older People (over 65)
   • Medicine - Geriatric
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     • Older People (over 65)
     • Medicine - Geriatric
     • End of life care
     • Patient engagement
     • Information sharing
     • Health education
     • Medication
     • Dementia

   By Patient-Safety-Learning, 13 March

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   • 13 March

4. Age UK: Fixing the Foundations (17 February 2023)

   • Social Care
   • Home
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     • Social Care
     • Home
     • Older People (over 65)
     • Accident and Emergency
     • Carer
     • Care navigation
     • Long-term conditions
     • Lack of resources

   By Patient Safety Learning, 17 February

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   • 17 February

5. Cost of inpatient falls and cost-benefit analysis of implementation of an evidence-based fall prevention program (20 January 2023)

   • Falls
   • Hospital ward
   • (and 3 more)

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     • Falls
     • Hospital ward
     • Resources / Organisational management
     • Impact analysis
     • USA

   By Patient-Safety-Learning, 2 February

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   • 2 February

6. Bringing hospital care home: Virtual Wards and Hospital at Home for older people (British Geriatrics Society, 17 August 2022)

   • Older People (over 65)
   • Home
   • (and 4 more)

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     • Older People (over 65)
     • Home
     • Patient
     • Community care
     • Virtual ward
     • Discharge

   By Patient Safety Learning, 9 January

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   • 9 January

7. Improving understanding: The National Hip Fracture Database report on 2021 (8 September 2022)

   • Medicine - Rheumatology
   • Falls
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     • Medicine - Rheumatology
     • Falls
     • Imaging
     • Physiotherapist
     • Older People (over 65)
     • Quality improvement
     • Database
     • Research

   By Patient-Safety-Learning, 7 October, 2022

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   • 7 October, 2022

8. Your hip fracture: all about your hip fracture and what to expect on the road to recovery (18 February 2020)

   • Surgery - Trauma and orthopaedic
   • Older People (over 65)
   • (and 3 more)

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     • Surgery - Trauma and orthopaedic
     • Older People (over 65)
     • Falls
     • Pain
     • Patient engagement

   By Patient-Safety-Learning, 1 September, 2022

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   • 1 September, 2022

9. Incidence of adverse incidents in residential aged care (19 October 2021)

   • Older People (over 65)
   • Care home
   • (and 4 more)

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     • Older People (over 65)
     • Care home
     • Patient safety incident
     • Reporting
     • Research
     • Australia

   By Patient Safety Learning, 12 August, 2022

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   • 12 August, 2022

10. RCP - What should happen if you or someone you know experiences a fragility fracture? (14 June 2022)

    • Surgery - Trauma and orthopaedic
    • Falls
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      • Surgery - Trauma and orthopaedic
      • Falls
      • Older People (over 65)
      • Patient / family support
      • Patient engagement
      • Imaging
      • Medication

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 25 July, 2022

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    • 25 July, 2022

11. Frailty, gaps in care coordination, and preventable adverse events (2 June 2022)

    • Older People (over 65)
    • Patient safety incident
    • (and 2 more)

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      • Older People (over 65)
      • Patient safety incident
      • Care coordination
      • USA

    By Mark Hughes, 11 July, 2022

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    • 11 July, 2022

12. National Audit of Inpatient Falls - How should your hospital prevent and respond to falls during your stay?

    • Falls
    • Hospital ward
    • (and 2 more)

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      • Falls
      • Hospital ward
      • Surgery - Trauma and orthopaedic
      • Older People (over 65)

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 3 May, 2022

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    • 3 May, 2022

13. Ageing, inequality and ethnicity: Evidence cards (14 April 2022)

    • Health inequalities
    • Health Disparities
    • (and 4 more)

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      • Health inequalities
      • Health Disparities
      • Older People (over 65)
      • Race
      • Ethnicity
      • BAME

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 25 April, 2022

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    • 25 April, 2022

14. Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust: Empowering patients within the Extensive Care Service

    • Patient engagement
    • Older People (over 65)
    • (and 4 more)

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      • Patient engagement
      • Older People (over 65)
      • Pharmacist
      • Medication
      • Patient / family support
      • Emergency medicine

    By Patient Safety Learning, 26 November, 2021

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    • 26 November, 2021

15. National Audit of Inpatient Falls (NAIF) patient information resources

    • Falls

    By Patient Safety Learning, 20 October, 2021

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    • 20 October, 2021

16. Geriatric medicine: GIRFT Programme National Specialty Report (September 2021)

    • Medicine - Geriatric

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 10 September, 2021

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    • 10 September, 2021

17. Cultural activities linked to lower mortality

    • Safety culture
    • Mental health

    By Becky T, 18 August, 2021

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    • 18 August, 2021

18. The art of life and death: 14 year follow-up analyses of associations between arts engagement and mortality in the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing

    • Safety culture
    • Mental health

    By Becky T, 18 August, 2021

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    • 18 August, 2021

19. OECD working paper. The economics of patient safety Part III: Long-term care (17 September 2020)

    • Older People (over 65)
    • Care plan
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      • Older People (over 65)
      • Care plan
      • Care home

    By Patient Safety Learning, 17 September, 2020

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    • 17 September, 2020

20. CPSI: Keeping seniors safe (15 May 2020)

    • Older People (over 65)
    • Communication
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      • Older People (over 65)
      • Communication
      • Patient safety strategy
      • Infection control
      • Virus
      • Medication
      • Canada

    By Patient Safety Learning, 9 June, 2020

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    • 9 June, 2020

21. Over-diagnosis and over-treatment in the frail elderly (November 2019)

    • Medication
    • Risk management
    • (and 2 more)

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      • Medication
      • Risk management
      • Older People (over 65)
      • Perception / understanding

    By Claire Cox, 30 January, 2020

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    • 30 January, 2020

22. To Dip Or Not To Dip – Improving the management of UTI in older people (Improving Patient Safety & Care 2019, 6 February 2019)

    • Urinary tract infections
    • Older People (over 65)
    • (and 1 more)

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      • Urinary tract infections
      • Older People (over 65)
      • Care coordination

    By Patient Safety Learning, 28 January, 2020

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    • 28 January, 2020

23. Falls in older people: assessing risk and prevention (NICE, June 2013)

    • Older People (over 65)
    • Falls

    By Claire Cox, 10 August, 2019

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    • 10 August, 2019

24. Don't take the p***. Urine dips in older people: A guide for junior doctors

    • Doctor
    • Older People (over 65)

    By Claire Cox, 30 July, 2019

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    • 30 July, 2019

25. Rockwood Clinical Frailty Scale

    • Older People (over 65)
    • Medicine - Geriatric

    By Claire Cox, 29 July, 2019

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    • 1,337 views
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    • 29 July, 2019