Aged Care

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

• Dementia Care Policy

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

• Memory Loss and Dementia

Summary Article

• Depression in older adults

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

• Comprehensive geriatric assessment
• Geriatric health maintenance

British Geriatrics Society

• CGA in Primary Care Settings: Functional and social assessment

Summary Article

• Multimorbidity (patient.info)

Useful Podcasts

• Constipation – Easing the strain (YouTube)
• Constipation – The Hearing Podcasts

NICE Guidelines

• Constipation (NICE)

UpToDate Resources

• Constipation in the older adult

Patient Info

• Constipation (patient.info)

Useful Podcasts

• Managing Delirium Out of Hours (YouTube)
• Delirium – The Hearing Aid Podcasts

Trust Guidelines

• Delirium Management Clinical Guideline

NICE guidelines

• Delirium: prevention, diagnosis and management

UpToDate Resources

• Delirium and acute confusional states: Prevention, treatment, and prognosis

British Geriatrics Society

• CGA in Primary Care Settings: Patients presenting with confusion and delirium

Patient Info

• Delirium (patient.info)

Summary Article

• Delirium

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

• Decisions relating to Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (3rd edition – 1st revision)

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

• End of life care for adults: service delivery

UptoDate Resources

• Palliative care: The last hours and days of life

British Geriatrics Society

• Palliative and end of life care for older people

Patient Info

• End of Life Care (patient.info)

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

• Falls in older people: assessing risk and prevention

UpToDate Resources

• Falls in older persons: Risk factors and patient evaluation
• Falls: Prevention in community-dwelling older persons

British Geriatrics Society

• CGA in Primary Care Settings: Patients at risk of falls and fractures

Patient Info

• Prevention of Falls in the Elderly (patient.info)

Useful Podcasts

• Frailty Scores – The Hearing Aid Podcasts
• Front Door Frailty – The Hearing Aid Podcasts
• Frailty – The Hearing Aid Podcasts

UpToDate Resources

• Frailty

Patient Info

• Frailty and Multimorbidity (patient.info)

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

• Transfers and Discharges in the Last Few Weeks of Life Clinical Guideline

Useful Podcasts

• Faecal Incontinence – The Hearing Aid Podcasts
• Urinary Incontinence in Frail Older People (YouTube)
• Urinary Incontinence – The Hearing Aid Podcasts

Trust Guidelines

• Adult Continence Care Policy
• Adult Urinary Catheterisation Policy

UpToDate Resources

• Incontinence
• Evaluation of women with urinary incontinence
• Treatment of urinary incontinence in women

British Geriatrics Society

• Clinical guidelines on urinary incontinence in women
• CGA in Primary Care Settings: Patients presenting with urinary incontinence
• Continence Care in Residential and Nursing Homes

Useful Podcasts

• A Guide to Mental Capacity Assessment (YouTube)
• DOLS – The Hearing Aid Podcasts
• Capacity – The Hearing Aid Podcasts

Trust Guidelines

• RCHT Mental Capacity Act Policy
• Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) Policy

NICE Guidelines

• Decision-making and mental capacity

UpToDate Resources

• Assessment of decision-making capacity in adults

British Geriatrics Society

• CGA in Primary Care Settings: Mental capacity issues

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

• National Hip Fracture Database

Patient Info

• Hip Fracture (patient.info)

Imaging Article

• Femoral neck fracture

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

• Parkinson’s Disease – Management of Inpatients Clinical Guideline

NICE Guidelines

• Parkinson’s Disease in adults

UpToDate Resources

• Clinical manifestations of Parkinson disease

Patient Info

• Parkinson’s Disease (patient.info)

Useful Podcasts

• The Geriatrician’s Scalpel: Pharmacological Debridement (YouTube)
• Polypharmacy – The Hearing Aid Podcasts

NICE Guidelines

• Polypharmacy (NICE)

UpToDate Resources

• Polypharmacy

Patient Info

• Polypharmacy (patient.info)

Summary Article

• Prescribing Issues and Concordance

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

• Approach to the patient with sensory loss
• Hearing loss
• Vision screening

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

• Prevention of Pressure Ulcers Policy
• Wound Care Clinical Guideline

NICE guidelines

• Pressure ulcers: prevention and management

UpToDate Resources

• Clinical staging and management of pressure-induced skin and soft tissue injury

Patient Info

• Pressure Sores (patient.info)

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

• Stroke (patient.info)

Imaging Article

• Ischaemic stroke (Radiopaedia)

Useful Podcasts

• Myths and MSUs (YouTube)
• UTIs – The Hearing Aid Podcasts

Trust Guidelines

• Clinical guideline for the management of suspected bacterial urinary tract infection in adults (excluding pregnant women)

UpToDate Resources

• Increased Risk for Infection

Summary Article

• Urinary Tract Infection in Adults (patient.info)