Care of Older People
Use this guide to find information resources related to the care of older people including books, reports and journal articles.
Key Resources
Royal College of Nursing (2024) Eyes right: older people and driving. RCN: London.
Royal College of Nursing (2023) Caring for older people: the essential role of the care home nurse. London: RCN.
James van Oppen (2022) What matters to older people with frailty in hospital? NIHR Evidence summary.
Books
Barrett C and Hinchliff S (2017) Addressing the sexual rights of older people. London: Routledge.
Cameron A P (2022) Female urinary incontinence. Cham: Springer International.
Cunningham S and Moore T (2021) Nursing skills in supporting mobility. London: Routledge.
Day M, McCarthy G and Fitzpatrick J (2018) Self-neglect in older adults: a global, evidence-based resource for nurses and other health care providers. New York, NY: Springer.
Ellett A (2023) Getting dementia care right: what’s not working and how it can change. Health Professions.
Gomes F (2022) Frailty in older adults with cancer. Cham: Springer International.
Isik A T and Grossberg G T (2018) Delirium in elderly patients. Cham: Springer International.
Rahman S (2019) Living with frailty: from assets and deficits to resilience. Oxon: Routledge.
Rahman S, Inouye S, MacLullich A, Davis D and Arora A (2020) Essentials of delirium: everything you really need to know for working in delirium care. London: Jessica Kingsley.
Randell A (2014) Delirium: diagnosis, management and prevention. New York: Novinka.
Ross F, Harris R G, Fitzpatrick J, Abley C and Redfern S J (2024) Redfern's nursing older people. 5th edn. Edinburgh: Elsevier.
Rovensky, Jozef (2017) Gerontorheumatology. Cham: Springer International Publishing.
Tampi R R, Tampi D J, Young J J et al. (2022) Essential reviews in geriatric psychiatry. Cham: Springer International.
Ebersole P, Touhy T A, Jett K F and Hess P (2020) Ebersole and Hess’ toward healthy aging: human needs and nursing response. 10th edn. St Louis: Elsevier Mosby.
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Journal articles
Journals
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Events and Exhibitions
RCN exhibition: Aspects of age -
Explore the shift from institutional to home care over two centuries of older people’s nursing, from the workhouses of the Victorian era to the hospital, care home and beyond. In an ageing population, we ask how nursing can improve the lives of those over 75.
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