[Role of the advanced practice nurse in gerontology]

An advanced practice nurse in gerontology, working in an in-home nursing care department, describes her missions with the teams, the patient and the carers.

[Serious game, a link between institution and home]

Serious game is a personal innovative technology to facilitate learning and social interaction. It can be used in a patient's home or in an institution. This training tool can also be developed for health professionals, especially accommodation facilities for the elderly. The objective is to integrate knowledge and know-how.

[Connected home, monitoring and improved care]

New technologies offer a new approach to healthcare management that benefits the patient, especially at home: better living spaces, improved safety and preservation of communication. Professionals concerned and family caregivers should be trained in these new technologies to discover and explore everyday their possibilities and uses.

Transforming primary care for the most vulnerable in society

Professor Alan Glasper examines the potential of the new Department of Health and NHS England policy, ‘Transforming Primary Care’, to provide ‘safe, proactive, personalised care’ for the most vulnerable people in our society

[Geriatric sector and psychogeriatric resources]

Faced with the expected growth of the population aged 75 and over between now and 2020, hospital structures must be prepared to adapt and organise themselves in order to meet the specific needs of elderly patients. This article present the measures implemented for the elderly patients in the south east territory of Seine-Saint-Denis.

Improving health care for the vulnerable elderly in society

Professor Alan Glasper discusses the Department of Health's latest initiative to improve health and care for the vulnerable elderly in society.

[The world of the oldest old: is the effectiveness of an intervention measurable? Geriatric occupational therapy program created by a group of nurses as described by Paola D'Ovidio and Francesca Perego]

A group of women who assumed the role of providing an integration of the routine care of a nursing home through the activation of various laboratories (from writing, to painting, to manual activities, to music), report on the criteria and the methodologies of their intervention, as well as the results obtained, over a period of three years, by giving a central place to the testimony of the "oldest old" population. The narrative of this experience is proposed not only as a strategy which can be reproduced but also as a methodology of evaluation for a setting which could be hardly assessed with standardized instruments based on quantitative rules and scores.