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Falls in older people

GPs' role in management of falls in the elderly....

Treatment: NICE advice questioned for frail elderly patients (Photo: Jim Varney)

GPs urged to ignore NICE diabetes advice when treating frail elderly

GPs should consider stopping diabetes treatment in frail elderly patients to improve health outcomes...

Older patients encouraged to set up social groups to beat loneliness

GP loneliness scheme cuts fifth of consultations with elderly patients

A programme set up by GPs cut consultations with a group of older patients by a fifth after encourag...

Dementia: incentives to boost diagnosis rates 'unhelpful'

Exclusive: Three in four GPs say controversial dementia DES did not benefit patients

Three quarters of GPs say the controversial scheme to pay practices £55 per new dementia diagnosis d...

Thousands of patients were excluded from dementia data

Thousands of patients' data excluded from NHS dementia target data

NHS England says it is closer to its dementia diagnosis target than Health and Social Care Informati...

Dementia: diagnosis rate missed NHS target (Photo; JH Lancy)

NHS dementia diagnosis targets missed despite 'harmful' DES

Efforts to boost dementia diagnosis rates have fallen short of NHS England's aims despite a controve...

Falls: scheme aims to protect at-risk patients (Photo: JH Lancy)

GP-led fracture prevention scheme could save NHS millions of pounds

An early prevention scheme for bone fractures trialled successfully by a GP federation in Northumber...

Dementia: low weight in middle aged linked to increased risk (Photo: JH Lancy)

Low weight raises dementia risk but obesity lowers it, research suggests

Middle-aged people who are underweight have a 34% higher risk of developing dementia than those with...

Care home: dementia diagnosis drive falling short

Exclusive: GPs need tenfold rise in dementia diagnosis to hit NHS target

GPs would need to increase dementia diagnosis tenfold in March to hit a controversial target set by ...

Exercise could ward off dementia (Photo: Ian Newton/UNP)

Lifestyle changes could prevent dementia, researchers find

A programme of healthy eating, exercise and brain training can prevent dementia in at-risk people, a...

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