RCGP Curriculum - 9 Care of Older Adults
This section of our curriculum guide refers to statement 9, Care of Older Adults, produced by the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP).
The UK has an ageing population and so the care of older people will make up a higher proportion of a GP’s workload. Co-morbidity, difficulties in communicating, the problems of polypharmacy and the need for additional support for the increasingly dependent patients, are important issues in the care of older people.
GPs and the primary care team have an important role to play in the delivery of improvements in the care of older people.
Here we have collated key articles from our journals to help you meet the curriculum requirements in this area.
PRIMARY CARE MANAGEMENT
- Red Flag Symptoms - Delirium
- Falls in the elderly
- The assessment of cognitive decline
- Clinical review - Alzheimer's disease
- Practice dilemma - Should you withhold clinical information?
- Safe prescribing for older people
- A problem shared - Concern for an elderly diabetic
- Practice dilemma - An elderly diabetic refuses to use insulin
- Headaches in the elderly
- Signs of photodamage in the elderly
- The management of pruritus in the elderly
- Assessing a patient for early dementia
- Assessing pain in the older person
- Managing psoriasis in the elderly
- Viewpoint - Vitamin D deficiency
- Squamous cell carcinoma
- Depression in later life
- Case study - Wrist pain in an elderly patient
- Assessment and care of stroke
- Falls prevention in older people
- Medico-legal - Treating elderly patients
- End of life care for patients with no next of kin
SKILLS AND ATTITUDES
- Practice dilemma - Dementia patient's care plan
- Practice dilemma - Driving with dementia
- A question of capacity
- A problem shared - Patient wants scrip to take abroad
- Case Study - An unusual cause for a confused state
- A problem shared - Concern for an elderly diabetic
- End of life care for patients with no next of kin
OTHER RELATED ARTICLES
These curriculum resources are regularly updated with relevant articles from our range of healthcare publications. All articles are reviewed by GP advisers. We have set the standard lifetime of an article at two years and will aim to renew all articles within that timeframe. However, some older articles will remain in the listing if our reviewers believe there to be no significant changes to the topic covered.
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