Care of Older People

RCN Clinical topics

• Older people
• Frailty in older people

Royal College of Nursing (2021) Eyes right: older people and driving. RCN: London.

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Royal College of Nursing (2023) Caring for older people: the essential role of the care home nurse. London: RCN.

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Age UK: Information guides and factsheets 

• Information aimed at the general public.
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James van Oppen (2022) What matters to older people with frailty in hospital? NIHR Evidence summary.

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NHS England (2019) NHS RightCare frailty tool kit. Optimising a frailty system.

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NHS England, Age UK, Getting it Right First Time and National Institute for Health Care and Excellence (2019) NHS RightCare frailty toolkit: optimising a frailty system.

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Older People’s Commissioner for Wales

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Older People's Commissioner for Wales (2018) Making Wales the best place to grow older: commissioner strategy 2019-2022.

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We would like to thank the RCN Older People's member community for their input into the development of this subject guide.

Barrett C and Hinchliff S (2017) Addressing the sexual rights of older people. London: Routledge.

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Cameron A P (2022) Female urinary incontinence. Cham: Springer International.

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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.

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Gomes F (2022) Frailty in older adults with cancer. Cham: Springer International.

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Isik A T and Grossberg G T (2018) Delirium in elderly patients. Cham: Springer International.

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Rahman S (2019) Living with frailty: from assets and deficits to resilience. Oxon: Routledge.

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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.

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Randell A (2014) Delirium: diagnosis, management and prevention. New York: Novinka.

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Ross F, Harris R G, Fitzpatrick J, Abley C and Redfern S J (2024) Redfern's nursing older people. 5th edn. Edinburgh: Elsevier.

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Rovensky, Jozef (2017) Gerontorheumatology. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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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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Use these links to see details of books the RCN libraries hold on each topic.

• Dementia care
• End of life care in older people
• Frailty
• Nursing older people
• Older patients

Use these links for details of journal articles on each topic.

• Nursing older people
• Dementia care nursing
• Older patients
• Population ageing

Journals of interest for the care of older people. Use these links to see details of availability.

• Geriatric Nursing
• International Journal of Older People Nursing
• Journal of Gerontological Nursing
• Nursing and Residential Care (NRC)
• Nursing older people

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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