Tuesday 15, December 2009

Welcome

Welcome to our new look newsletter!

Each month this newsletter will bring you the highlights of the later life evidence released in the last month (guidelines, systematic reviews, policy documents, statistics, patient information and news), helping you to stay up to date with the best available later life information.

We hope you like the new format. Please tell your friends and colleagues so they can sign up too!

Best wishes,
NHS Evidence - later life team

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Guidance

The College of Optometrists

• Code of ethics and guidelines for professional conduct C4: examining the patient with dementia or other acquired cognitive impairment

Centre for Public Scrutiny

• Walk a mile in my shoes: scrutiny of dignity and respect for individuals in health and social care services - a guide

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Systematic reviews

Cochrane

• Multidisciplinary rehabilitation for older people with hip fractures

• Special care units for dementia individuals with behavioural problems

Abstracts of reviews from DARE

•  Collaborative care interventions for depression in the elderly: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials

•  Effective exercise for the prevention of falls: a systematic review and meta-analysis

•  Fall prevention with supplemental and active forms of vitamin D: a meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials

•  Risk of valvular heart disease associated with the use of dopamine agonists in Parkinson's disease: a systematic review

•  The clinical significance of subjective memory complaints in the diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment and dementia: a meta-analysis

•  The impact of cognitive impairment on rehabilitation outcomes in elderly patients admitted with a femoral neck fracture: a systematic review

•  The use of aromatherapy to treat behavioural problems in dementia

•  UK self-care support initiatives for older patients with long-term conditions: a review

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Health Technology Assessments

•  Drug therapies in Alzheimer's disease patients: state of knowledge

•  Ginkgo compounds in Alzheimer's disease
   
•  Non-drug therapies in Alzheimer's disease
   
•  Prevention of falls in community-dwelling elderly persons
   
•  Venous thromboembolism prophylaxis for hip fracture patients

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Policy, reports and service development

• Report from the ministerial summit on dementia research
   
• Report on the prescribing of anti-psychotic drugs to people with dementia

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In the news

A roundup of later life stories in the newspapers from Behind the Headlines:

• Body shape and dementia
   
• Immune systems and ageing
   
• Quality of dementia care in hospitals
   
• Antipsychotic use in dementia
   
• Multi-tasking test for Alzheimer's

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Essential Links

• NHS Evidence - Later Life Homepage
   
• Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia Annual Evidence Update 2009
   
• Supporting People in Later Life Annual Evidence Update 2009

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