Recognising and addressing loneliness and social isolation in older people
How nurses can measure loneliness or social isolation and interventions that can help to reduce them
05 Mar 2025
CPD articles
Our continuing professional development (CPD) articles are designed to assist with your nursing skills and practice.
Delivering safe, person-centred care for acutely unwell older people on virtual wards
An overview of technology-enabled virtual wards and barriers to their use in older people’s care
08 Jan 2025
Exploring self-care health-related beliefs, values and attitudes with older patients
Using a reflective framework may help patients consider change or a new way of self-care
04 Dec 2024
Pressure ulcers: implementing the PURPOSE T risk assessment tool into clinical practice
Examining some of the risk assessment tools used to assess pressure ulcer risk
02 Oct 2024
Assessing pain in older people with normal, mildly impaired or severely impaired...
A comprehensive assessment is essential for pain management and one tool on its own is rarely sufficient
17 Jul 2024
Supporting older adults who misuse alcohol
Nurses can offer support using their relationships with patients to encourage healthy behaviours
22 May 2024
Exercise as a falls prevention strategy in the care of older people
Nurses should motivate older people to exercise and adopt exercise-based falls prevention strategies
10 Jan 2024
Identifying incontinence and promoting continence in people living with dementia
Practical strategies that can support people living with dementia and their family carers
22 Nov 2023
Benefits of deprescribing for older people with frailty and polypharmacy: part two
Nurses should be aware of tools that may assist in preventing or reducing inappropriate medicines use
20 Sep 2023
Benefits of deprescribing for older people living with frailty and polypharmacy: part 1
Adverse effects of polypharmacy on older people and medicines optimisation for those living with frailty
06 Sep 2023
Recognising, reducing and preventing deconditioning in hospitalised older people
How nurses can help older people in hospital regain their mobility
08 Feb 2023
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Improving nutrition and hydration in older people with dementia in care homes
Person-centred interventions to improve food and drink intake of older people with dementia
07 Sep 2022
Frailty: an overview of concepts, risk factors, assessment tools and interventions
Increase your knowledge of how to assess, prevent and reduce frailty
06 Jul 2022
‘Guiding Lights for effective workplace cultures’
Enhancing the care environment for staff and patients in older people’s care settings
04 May 2022
COVID-19 infection prevention and control measures in long-term care settings
Enhance your knowledge of infection prevention measures to reduce risk of COVID transmission
09 Mar 2022
Demonstrating empathy when communicating with older people
Empathy is integral to communication with older people and central to person-centred care
12 Jan 2022
Supporting older people experiencing anxiety through non-pharmacological interventions
Anxiety is a debilitating condition that adversely affects people’s quality of life
03 Nov 2021
Basic assessment and treatment of lower urinary tract symptoms in older women
This article aims to provide nurses with an understanding of lower urinary tract symptoms
08 Sep 2021