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02 June 2024

Volume 29 | Issue 6

ISSN (Print): 1462-4753

ISSN (Online): 2052-2215

What would Tom Kitwood have thought?

The late Tom Kitwood, building on the work of Carl Rogers, developed the concept of person-centred care for people with dementia (Kitwood, 1997). Proposed first in the late 1980s at the University of Bradford, UK, Kitwood shifted our focus from seeing dementia first, as a challenging disease process, to seeing the person first and their uniqueness as an individual with preferences and needs that require us to meet them.

Editorial

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The changing face of ill health

While's Words

Aysha Mendes provides a synopsis and brief review of a selection of recently published research articles that are of interest to community nurses, highlighting key points to keep you up to date; a full reference is provided for those who wish to read the research in more detail

Research Roundup

The changing nature of dying: lessons from the pandemic

Palliative Care

The law in relation to safeguarding and the community nurse

Policy

Risk and dementia

Long-Term Conditions

The specialist community practitioner district nurse's role in optimising COPD

Clinical

‘No health without mental health’: where are we now?

Clinical

Keeping patients safe through medication review and management in the community

Clinical

Managing incontinence-associated dermatitis in the community: an overview

Professional

Reducing the burden: managing lymphoedema and its complications

Professional