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Orthogeriatric and Fragility Fracture Care in the Future
This chapter aims to outline some of the future goals for fragility fracture care and to offer some thoughts on how some of the more significant challenges need to be approached. The increase in the prevalence...
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Orthogeriatric and Fragility Fracture Nursing: An Introduction
Caring for people following a fragility fracture is often a complex, medium- to long-term undertaking with several phases from acute care through to rehabilitation and secondary fracture prevention. Fragility ...
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Overview of Nutrition Care in Geriatrics and Orthogeriatrics
Engaging older adults, and all those who care for them, is pivotal to providing high-value nutrition care for older adults. Nurses and other interdisciplinary team members are essential to this process. The ai...
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Nursing in the Orthogeriatric Setting
The speciality of orthogeriatric nursing has only recently emerged and is evolving rapidly. The recognition of the global burden of fragility fractures is growing and the recent call to action issued by the Fr...
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Nutritional Care of the Older Patient with Fragility Fracture: Opportunities for Systematised, Interdisciplinary Approaches Across Acute Care, Rehabilitation and Secondary Prevention Settings
Nutritional care of the older patient with fragility fracture is complex. Diagnostic difficulties, multi-morbidities and interdependencies and social complexities all contribute to the wicked problem of malnut...
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Falls and Secondary Fracture Prevention
The most common cause of fractures in the elderly is falling, usually from standing height, and falling is the leading cause of hospitalisation due to accidental injury, with significant risk of death in the f...
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Orthogeriatric Nursing in the Emergency and Perioperative In-Patient Setting
As the population ages, musculoskeletal trauma in older people will be a growing challenge. Although management of older people following trauma has some similarities to that for all trauma, there are also dif...
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Orthogeriatric Nursing
Nursing is central to good care for the patient with a fragility fracture and makes a major contribution to positive outcomes. Nurses are the largest group of health professionals in the orthogeriatric team, a...
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Family Partnerships, Palliative Care and End of Life
The involvement of families, friends and others important to the patient has always been central in person-centred, individualised care. Following fragility fracture, many patients wish for their family and si...
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The Nursing Role
In the hospital setting nurses provide care 24 h per day. This means that they are best placed to know the patient well, advocate for their specific needs, recognise develo** complications and coordinate the...