Quality in Ageing and Older Adults: Volume 13 Issue 3

Patterns of formulaic language in Alzheimer's disease: implications for quality of life

This paper aims to demonstrate how fundamental social and psychological drivers can affect the language used by people with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and their carers.

Further insights into Alzheimer's disease

This paper aims to give further insights into Alzheimer's disease (AD), a devastating neurodegenerative disorder which accounts for 60‐80 per cent of late‐onset dementia. AD is…

Progress in diagnosis and management of Alzheimer's disease

Knowledge of Alzheimer's disease (AD), timely recognition and good management should be the norm in all health and social care settings. This paper seeks to focus on developments…

Resilience to health related adversity in older people

This paper's aim is to explore factors underlying resilience to health adversity, where resilience is defined as better perceived health after adjusting for the presence of doctor…

Well‐being and dementia – how can it be achieved?

It is now widely accepted that many people with dementia can report in a consistent and valid way on their quality of life. This review aims to identify modifiable factors…

Interventions in community settings that prevent or delay disablement in later life: an overview of the evidence

The population of older people in the UK is expected to rise rapidly over the next 20 years and therefore identification of effective interventions that prevent functional decline…

The delivery and management of telephone befriending services – whose needs are being met?

This article aims to describe an evaluation of a national pilot programme of telephone support services for older people in England and Scotland and is focussed on organisational…

Cognitive Function and Wellbeing

The Evening Public Lecture

Help at Hand

Abuse secretly filmed in “excellent” London care home

Social Work with Older People

Dementia qualification to help improve care

UN Older Person’s Day 2011

Moving home in later life

Minister describes telehealth and telecare partnership as “Win Win Win”

Working over 65s “could hit two million by 2022”

Radical reform of care funding proposed as government faces The Care Crunch