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Certain factors accelerate skin ageing. The skin is easily damaged by ultraviolet light, and excessive sun exposure can cause dryness, irregular pigmentation, loss of collagen and deep wrinkling....
Originally from Ireland, 76-year-old Tommy resided alone in the suburbs of a northern English town. He had worked as a teacher until he sustained a head injury many years previously. He had epilepsy,...
Dental caries is a biofilm-mediated, diet-modulated, multifactorial disease caused by bacteria (Machiulskiene et al, 2020), where acid produced as a byproduct of the bacterial metabolism of sugars in...
This programme comprises 30 minutes of leg muscle strengthening and balance retraining exercises that progress in difficulty and are performed at home at least three times per week, together with...
Since its inception, holistic social prescribing has influenced a paradigm shift from a pathogenic, medical model, towards a salutogenic model that embraces what makes people healthy rather than...
Generally, the most common symptom of dermatitis, dermatologically speaking is itching, which might appear with or without lesions of the skin. Therefore, to evaluate pruritus, a thorough history and...
COVID-19 is a novel coronavirus and part of a large group of viruses that cause illness ranging widely in severity (Guan et al, 2020). From a historical perspective, the impact of coronavirus-related...
Humans have evolved over millions of years to manage the effects of gravity. The head comprises a heavy skull protecting the brain and, unlike in apes, the human skull is positioned centrally to...
The results after training at T1 showed high levels of non-completion of the training and trained staff members' vulnerability to attrition. Community-based nurses felt they had some knowledge to help...
The Community Ageing Research 75+ Study (CARE75+) (Heaven et al, 2019) is a national, longitudinal cohort study, collecting health and social data, with a focus on frailty, independence and quality of...
Fancourt and Finn (2019) conducted a scoping review for the WHO of the global evidence of the effects of the arts on health and wellbeing. Their definition of the arts included performing arts such...
The results of the present study showed that more than half (59.1%) of the older participants recruited from PAWE centres were depressed, and 4.4% of these individuals were severely depressed....
British Journal of Community Nursing provides clinical education dedicated to nursing in the home. Our goal is to help you develop your skills, improve your practice and manage cases more effectively.
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