Individual practices

Article Abstract:

Long-term care of the elderly can be organised to focus on the needs of the patients as opposed to making the patients adapt to the ward routine. Nurses working in Seacroft Nursing Development Unit (NDU) for elderly dementia patients at Seacroft Hospital, Leeds, United Kingdom, believe in offering choice and a level of independence to the patients in order to allow them to maintain their dignity. Care plans include personal details such as the patients' preferences for certain foods or the names of their particular friends. The management of Seacroft NDU is examined.

Hospital wards

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Bright ideas

Article Abstract:

The best way for nursing home staff to help settle residents into long-term care is to encourage them to treat their room or space as they would their own home. This may involve displaying personal items, such as mementos and photographs or it could be allowing them to bring personal furniture. Care is not just about medical and physical well-being but about psychological health which involves creating a living area which is an uninstitutional as possible.

Nursing homes, Nursing home management

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Surveying the alternatives

Article Abstract:

Alternative therapies have become popular and acceptable in the UK. Some 93% of doctors have already referred patients who have not benefited from conventional medicine to alternative practitioners. A significant 10% of Britons have visited an acupuncturist, while 7% have used natural medicine, and 2% have consulted a homoeopath.

Usage, Alternative medicine

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