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The Optimal Study: describing the key components of optimal health care delivery to UK care home residents: a research protocol (2014)
Journal Article
Gordon, A. L., Goodman, C., Dening, T., Davies, S., Gladman, J. R., Bell, B. G., …Victor, C. (2014). The Optimal Study: describing the key components of optimal health care delivery to UK care home residents: a research protocol. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 15(9), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jamda.2014.06.011

Long term institutional care in the UK is provided by care homes. Residents have prevalent cognitive impairment and disability, have multiple diagnoses and are subject to polypharmacy. Prevailing models of healthcare provision - ad hoc, reactive and... Read More about The Optimal Study: describing the key components of optimal health care delivery to UK care home residents: a research protocol.

Effective health care for older people resident in care homes: the optimal study protocol for realist review (2014)
Journal Article
Goodman, C., Gordon, A. L., Martin, F., Davies, S. L., Iliffe, S., Bowman, C., …Dening, T. (2014). Effective health care for older people resident in care homes: the optimal study protocol for realist review. Systematic Reviews, 3(1), Article 49. https://doi.org/10.1186/2046-4053-3-49

Background Care homes in the UK rely on general practice for access to specialist medical and nursing care as well as referral to therapists and secondary care. Service delivery to care homes is highly variable in both quantity and quality. This var... Read More about Effective health care for older people resident in care homes: the optimal study protocol for realist review.

Undergraduate teaching in geriatric medicine: mapping the British Geriatrics Society undergraduate curriculum to Tomorrow's Doctors 2009 (2014)
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Forrester-Paton, C., Forrester-Paton, J., Gordon, A. L., Mitchell, H. K., Bracewell, N., Mjojo, J., …Blundell, A. (2014). Undergraduate teaching in geriatric medicine: mapping the British Geriatrics Society undergraduate curriculum to Tomorrow's Doctors 2009. Age and Ageing, 43(3), https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afu024

Introduction: in 2008, the British Geriatrics Society (BGS) developed the Recommended Undergraduate Curriculum in Geriatric Medicine. This was subsequently mapped to the second edition of Tomorrows' Doctors (TD2, 2003). Following the publication of t... Read More about Undergraduate teaching in geriatric medicine: mapping the British Geriatrics Society undergraduate curriculum to Tomorrow's Doctors 2009.

The treatment of hypertension in people with dementia: a systematic review of observational studies (2014)
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Welsh, T., Gladman, J. R., & Gordon, A. L. (2014). The treatment of hypertension in people with dementia: a systematic review of observational studies. BMC Geriatrics, 14(1), Article 19. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2318-14-19

Background Hypertension is very common in older people and a number of trials of antihypertensives have demonstrated benefit from treatment in even the oldest old. However, people with dementia were significantly under-represented in these studies a... Read More about The treatment of hypertension in people with dementia: a systematic review of observational studies.

Health status of UK care home residents: a cohort study (2014)
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Gordon, A. L., Franklin, M., Bradshaw, L., Logan, P., Elliott, R., & Gladman, J. R. (2014). Health status of UK care home residents: a cohort study. Age and Ageing, 43(1), https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/aft077

Background: UK care home residents are often poorly served by existing healthcare arrangements. Published descriptions of residents’ health status have been limited by lack of detail and use of data derived from surveys drawn from social, rather than... Read More about Health status of UK care home residents: a cohort study.

The treatment of hypertension in care home residents: a systematic review of observational studies (2014)
Journal Article
Welsh, T., Gladman, J. R., & Gordon, A. L. (2014). The treatment of hypertension in care home residents: a systematic review of observational studies. Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 15(1), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jamda.2013.06.012

Aim: To describe the prevalence of hypertension in care home residents, its treatment, change in treatment over time, and the achievement of blood pressure (BP) control. Method: The PubMed, Cochrane, Embase, and PsychINFO databases were searched fo... Read More about The treatment of hypertension in care home residents: a systematic review of observational studies.

UK medical teaching about ageing is improving but there is still work to be done: the Second National Survey of Undergraduate Teaching in Ageing and Geriatric Medicine (2013)
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Gordon, A. L., Blundell, A., Dhesi, J. K., Forrester-Paton, C., Forrester-Paton, J., Mitchell, H. K., …Gladman, J. R. (2014). UK medical teaching about ageing is improving but there is still work to be done: the Second National Survey of Undergraduate Teaching in Ageing and Geriatric Medicine. Age and Ageing, 43(2), 293-297. https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/aft207

Introduction: in 2008, a UK national survey of undergraduate teaching about ageing and geriatric medicine identified deficiencies, including failure to adequately teach about elder abuse, pressure ulcers and bio- and social gerontology. We repeated t... Read More about UK medical teaching about ageing is improving but there is still work to be done: the Second National Survey of Undergraduate Teaching in Ageing and Geriatric Medicine.

Explaining the barriers to and tensions in delivering effective healthcare in UK care homes: a qualitative study (2013)
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Robbins, I., Gordon, A., Dyas, J., Logan, P. A., & Gladman, J. R. (2013). Explaining the barriers to and tensions in delivering effective healthcare in UK care homes: a qualitative study. BMJ Open, 3(7), Article e003178. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2013-003178

Objective: To explain the current delivery of healthcare to residents living in UK care homes. Design: Qualitative interview study using a grounded theory approach. Setting: 6 UK care homes and primary care professionals serving the homes. P... Read More about Explaining the barriers to and tensions in delivering effective healthcare in UK care homes: a qualitative study.