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  • Dignity in Care Podcast - Leading from the front

    This 19 minute video podcast discusses what to look for when choosing a care home for an older person with dementia, and how residential home managers and staff can be supported to keep improving standards....

  • Dignity in Care Podcast - Active Ageing

    This 17 minute video podcast describes a project in Liverpool that helps older people to be more active and involved, including work with young people in schools to improve understanding between the...

  • RCN - Dignity Campaign

    The RCN's 'Dignity: at the heart of everything we do' campaign - launched on 25 June 2008 - aims to provide support and direction to the UK's nursing workforce, as they deliver care for patients and...

  • Poem on ageing - See me?

    The origin of this poem is uncertain. General consensus is that when an old lady died in the geriatric ward of a hospital, it appeared she had left nothing of value but on packing up her possessions,...

  • Beth Johnson Foundation Website

    The Centre for Intergenerational Practice (CIP), based at the Beth Johnson Foundation , aims to support the development of intergenerational practice throughout the UK and to promote an understanding...

  • Dignity Illustrations

    These illustrations of dignity print as A4 sized posters and are from the Dignity in Care Regional Events in Birmingham January 2007 and Leeds March 2007. There are 25 images in each file.

  • DH website - Consultations

    Link to the DH website information on current and past consultations.

  • A Sure Start to Later Life: Ending Inequalities for Older People

    The experience of exclusion is not unique to older people - it affects people of all ages. However, exclusion can be particularly acute in later life for three reasons. it is all too rare that people...

  • NPSA - Protected Mealtimes

    The National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) has identified poor nutrition as patient safety issue. This resource includes tips from frontline staff on making Protected Mealtimes work, the aim to ensure...

  • RCN Improving continence care for patients

    This RCN document looks at the key roles of nurse specialist and consultant nurse, examining their potential influence on continence services - whether in a hospital or community setting - and the impact...