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The Aged Care Electronic Resource Room contains links to frequently used resources for clinicians including Podcasts, Trust Guidelines, NICE Guidelines, UpToDate Resources, and more.
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Chronic Cognitive Impairment
Useful Podcasts
- Diagnosing Dementia – The Hearing Aid Podcasts
- Interventions in Early Dementia – The Hearing Aid Podcasts
- Behavioural and Psychological Symptoms of Dementia – The Hearing Aid Podcasts
- BPSD Management – The Hearing Aid Podcasts
- Dark Clouds over Golden Years: Late Life Depression. a Transatlantic Mini-Gem! – YouTube
- Depression – The Hearing Aid Podcasts
Trust Guidelines
NICE Guidelines
- Dementia: assessment, management and support for people living with dementia and their carers
- Dementia
- Parkinson’s disease, tremor and dystonia
UpToDate Resources
- Evaluation of cognitive impairment and dementia
- Treatment of Dementia
- Clinical features and diagnosis of Alzheimer disease
- Clinical features and diagnosis of dementia with Lewy bodies
- Etiology, clinical manifestations, and diagnosis of vascular dementia
Patient Info
Summary Article
Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment
Useful Podcasts
- Mind Your Language – The Geriatrician’s Profanisaurus (YouTube)
- Atypical Presentations in Older Patients – “Things are not always what they seem” (YouTube)
- Tips for New Docs – Geriatrics for FY1s (YouTube)
- Acopia – the diagnosis for docs who can’t cope (YouTube)
- Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment – The Hearing Aid Podcasts
- CGA in Care Homes – The Hearing Aid Podcasts
- Multimorbidity – The Hearing Aid Podcasts
UpToDate Resources
British Geriatrics Society
Summary Article
Constipation
Useful Podcasts
NICE Guidelines
UpToDate Resources
Patient Info
Delirium
Useful Podcasts
Trust Guidelines
NICE guidelines
UpToDate Resources
British Geriatrics Society
Patient Info
Summary Article
End of Life/TEP
Useful Podcasts
- DNACPR Decisions – It’s Good To Talk… (YouTube)
- Life After the LCP (YouTube)
- Advance Care Planning – The Hearing Aid Podcasts
Resuscitation Council (UK) Guidance
Trust Guidelines
- Clinical Guideline for End of life Care Plan
- Management of Subcutaneous Infusions in Adults Policy and Procedure
- Guidance for anticipatory prescribing and symptom control at the end-of-life
NICE Guidelines
UpToDate Resources
British Geriatrics Society
Patient Info
Falls
Useful Podcasts
- Falls: To Admit Or Not To Admit? – The Hearing Aid Podcasts
- Falls Prevention – The Hearing Aid Podcasts
- Sarcopenia – The Hearing Aid Podcasts
- Focused Assessment Following a Fall on the Ward (YouTube)
- Postural Hypotension – The Hearing Aid Podcasts
- Fear of Falling – The Hearing Aid Podcasts
- Acute Management Following a Fall – The Hearing Aid Podcasts
Trust Guidelines
- Clinical Shelf: Patient Falls (RCHT intranet – internal only)
- Prevention and Management of Falls in Hospital, and the Safe Use of Bedrails with Adult Patients Policy
NICE Guidelines
UpToDate Resources
- Falls in older persons: Risk factors and patient evaluation
- Falls: Prevention in community-dwelling older persons
British Geriatrics Society
Patient Info
Frailty
Useful Podcasts
- Frailty Scores – The Hearing Aid Podcasts
- Front Door Frailty – The Hearing Aid Podcasts
- Frailty – The Hearing Aid Podcasts
UpToDate Resources
Patient Info
Health and Social Care Interface
Useful Podcasts
- Patient Flow – The Hearing Aid Podcasts
- Health and Social care interface – The Hearing Aid Podcasts
- Continuing Health Care – The Hearing Aid Podcasts
- Community Interface – The Hearing Aid Podcasts
- Rehabilitation Potential – The Hearing Aid Podcasts
Trust Guidelines
Incontinence
Useful Podcasts
- Faecal Incontinence – The Hearing Aid Podcasts
- Urinary Incontinence in Frail Older People (YouTube)
- Urinary Incontinence – The Hearing Aid Podcasts
Trust Guidelines
UpToDate Resources
- Geriatric health maintenance: Incontinence
- Evaluation of women with urinary incontinence
- Treatment of urinary incontinence in women
British Geriatrics Society
Mental Capacity
Useful Podcasts
- A Guide to Mental Capacity Assessment (YouTube)
- DOLS – The Hearing Aid Podcasts
- Capacity – The Hearing Aid Podcasts
Trust Guidelines
NICE Guidelines
UpToDate Resources
British Geriatrics Society
Orthogeriatrics and Trauma
Useful Podcasts
- Always use Protection…. for the Bones. A Summary of Bone Protection Therapy (YouTube)
- Bone Health – The Hearing Aid Podcasts
- ‘Silver’ Trauma – The Hearing Aid Podcasts
- Peri-operative care – The Hearing Aid Podcasts
Trust Guidelines
- Bone Protection Management in Post Fractured Neck of Femur (NOF) Patients Clinical Guideline
- Clinical Guidelines for Fractured Neck of Femur Pathway RCHT
National Hip Fracture Database
Patient Info
Imaging Article
Parkinson’s Disease
Useful Podcasts
- I think my patient might have Parkinson’s Disease (YouTube)
- Parkinson’s Disease – The Hearing Aid Podcasts
- My Patient With PD Can’t Swallow Their Meds – Gulp! (YouTube)
Trust Guidelines
NICE Guidelines
UpToDate Resources
Patient Info
Polypharmacy
Useful Podcasts
- The Geriatrician’s Scalpel: Pharmacological Debridement (YouTube)
- Polypharmacy – The Hearing Aid Podcasts
NICE Guidelines
UpToDate Resources
Patient Info
Summary Article
Sensory Impairment
Useful Podcasts
- Hearing – The Hearing Aid Podcasts
- Shake, Rattle and Roll: The Epley Manoeuvre (YouTube)
- Assessing Vision in Older Patients (YouTube)
- Vision – The Hearing Aid Podcasts
UpToDate resources
Skin Care
Useful Podcasts
- Ageing Skin – The Hearing Aid Podcasts
- Preventing Pressure Ulcers – The Hearing Aid Podcasts
- Red legs, Swollen legs – The Hearing Aid Podcasts
Trust Guidelines
NICE guidelines
UpToDate Resources
Patient Info
Stroke
Useful Podcasts
- 5 Minute Guide to Stroke Thrombolysis (YouTube)
- Acute Stroke Management – The Hearing Aid Podcasts
- Anticoagulation – It Doesn’t Have to be a Bleeding Nightmare (YouTube)
Trust Guidelines
- Acute Stroke Management Clinical Guideline
- Advanced Stroke Management Pathway
- Hypertension Following Intracerebral Haemorrhage Clinical Guideline
- Non-Vitamin K Oral Anticoagulants (‘NOAC’s) for the Prevention of Stroke and Systemic Embolism in Atrial Fibrillation Clinical Guideline
- Clinical Guideline for Secondary Prevention After Stroke or TIA (Primary and Secondary Care Cornwall)
- Stroke and TIA Multidisciplinary Care Pathway
NICE Guidelines
- Stroke and transient ischaemic attack in over 16s: diagnosis and initial management
- Stroke and transient ischaemic attack
UpToDate Resources
- Initial assessment and management of acute stroke
- Overview of secondary prevention of ischemic stroke
Patient Info
Imaging Article
UTI
Useful Podcasts
Trust Guidelines
UpToDate Resources
Summary Article
Page last reviewed: 5 December 2022