The COVID-19 challenge

‘Extreme events often herald new approaches, and, in the case of the NHS, the use of digital technology is coming into its own, both to promote the efficient use of resources and to minimise...

COVID-19 in the community

Improving access to primary care services for those on low income: voluntary advocacy

The aim of this research was to answer the following questions: i) What are the experiences of those who use the buddying service? ii) Does the service seem to facilitate improved access to primary...

Urge incontinence in postmenopausal women

Urge incontinence (also known as overactive bladder), is caused by overly active or irritated bladder muscles, and the most common symptom is the frequent and sudden urge to urinate, with occasional...

Falls and older people: understanding why people fall

Humans have evolved over millions of years to manage the effects of gravity. The head comprises a heavy skull protecting the brain and, unlike in apes, the human skull is positioned centrally to...

Improving the experience of patients who receive home enteral tube feeding

The British Association for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (2018) described enteral tube feeding as nutrition delivered directly into a person's digestive tract through an artificial feeding tube....

COVID-19 and emergency planning

The outbreak of contagious disease in such a globally connected world requires governments, public health and healthcare systems to work together to facilitate surveillance, early detection, isolation...

Catheter-associated urinary tract infections in the community

Urinary catheters used appropriately can enable people with urinary incontinence to remain dry when other methods have failed. They can enable people who are dying to remain at home. They can help...

Malnutrition in community-dwelling older people: lessons learnt using a new procedure

The results after training at T1 showed high levels of non-completion of the training and trained staff members' vulnerability to attrition. Community-based nurses felt they had some knowledge to help...

Legal aspects of COVID-19 pandemic management for community nurses

In some respects they do, but in most respects they do not..

Social prescribing: combating loneliness is everyone's business

Compression therapy for treating post-thrombotic syndrome

The objectives of Azirar et al's (2019) review were to assess the effectiveness of treatments for PTS, including elastic compression stockings and mechanical compression devices, compared with no...

Managing heart failure

‘It is estimated that there are about 920 000 people living with heart failure in the UK, which exceeds the number with the four most common cancers combined and imposes a significant healthcare...

DNACPR: don't leave it until too late to talk

Recruiting older people from the Pakistani community in Community Ageing Research 75+

The Community Ageing Research 75+ Study (CARE75+) (Heaven et al, 2019) is a national, longitudinal cohort study, collecting health and social data, with a focus on frailty, independence and quality of...