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Vitamin D and Bone Health: A Practical Clinical Guideline for Patient Management has been developed by the National Osteoporosis Society in response to increased enquiries from healthcare professionals, who have been inundated with requests for vitamin D...

This quality standard covers the care and support of people with dementia. It applies to all social care settings and services working with and caring for people with dementia. It should be read alongside the NICE Dementia quality standard (QS1) which...

CSP's Agile network has endorsed the new NICE quality standard for people with dementia The two quality standards, published today by the newly re-named National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), focus on Supporting people with dementia...

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Falls represent a serious problem for older people. Around 30% of over 65s will fall every year, increasing to 50% in those aged over 80. Falls Awareness Week runs every year in June and local events are held around the country to raise awareness of the...

The Public Health Agency in Northern Ireland has issued a call for abstracts for the Annual Public Scientific Conference to be held in Belfast on June 12th 2013. The theme of the Conference will be Older People and it will focus on how public health...

The results of the first year of the study (the NAIC 2012) were published in September 2012 and welcomed by the Department of Health as an important contribution to our understanding of how intermediate care services have developed nationally and the key...

This conference may be of interest to AGILE members as of one of the conference themes is 'Dealing with an aging population: reshaping care and rehabilitation for older people'   3rd October 2013, Edinburgh