Best Clinical Practice: Communicating With Older Patients
Great communication between a health professional and their patient is a key ingredient for everyone’s healing process, no matter their age. But for older patients, effective communication becomes even more important, leading to better health outcomes, increased adherence to treatment, and improved diagnostic accuracy. Older patients make up a large proportion of the people treated […]
Falls Prevention: The Key To Living Independently In Your Own Home
For those aged over 65 years, falling down the stairs, tripping into a coffee table, or simply stumbling over slippers can have incredibly painful and devastating impacts on a person’s life, often reducing their ability to stay mobile, care for themselves and live independently within their own home. The good news is that falls […]