Articles
Polypharmacy, Deprescribing and Falls: Running Safer Medicines Reviews in Older People’s Services
Polypharmacy is a common, preventable driver of falls when medicines accumulate without regular review and “PRN creep” becomes routine. This article explains how services can run structured, frailty-aware medicines reviews,...
Polypharmacy, Deprescribing and Falls: Running ...
Polypharmacy is a common, preventable driver of falls when medicines accumulate without regular review and “PRN creep” becomes routine. This article explains how services can run structured, frailty-aware medicines reviews,...
Reducing Falls Risk After Hospital Discharge: Medicines Reconciliation in Older People’s Services
Hospital discharge is a high-risk point for falls because medicines are often changed, duplicated, or misunderstood, and people return with reduced strength and confidence. This article sets out a practical...
Reducing Falls Risk After Hospital Discharge: M...
Hospital discharge is a high-risk point for falls because medicines are often changed, duplicated, or misunderstood, and people return with reduced strength and confidence. This article sets out a practical...
Post-Fall Clinical Escalation and Medicines Review in Frailty-Aware Services
Post-fall response is where safety and governance either tighten or drift. This article sets out a frailty-aware, medicines-informed post-fall process: immediate checks, observation and escalation, medication review triggers, MDT working,...
Post-Fall Clinical Escalation and Medicines Rev...
Post-fall response is where safety and governance either tighten or drift. This article sets out a frailty-aware, medicines-informed post-fall process: immediate checks, observation and escalation, medication review triggers, MDT working,...
Falls Reduction Through Safer Medicines Practice in Older People’s Services
Falls prevention in older people’s services is often won or lost in medicines practice: how rounds are run, how PRN is controlled, and how sedation and hypotension risks are spotted...
Falls Reduction Through Safer Medicines Practic...
Falls prevention in older people’s services is often won or lost in medicines practice: how rounds are run, how PRN is controlled, and how sedation and hypotension risks are spotted...
Frailty, Falls and Safety: Turning Risk Assessment Into Daily Practice
Frailty-aware care is not a form — it’s a set of daily habits that reduce falls without restricting people’s lives. This article shows how older people’s services can link frailty...
Frailty, Falls and Safety: Turning Risk Assessm...
Frailty-aware care is not a form — it’s a set of daily habits that reduce falls without restricting people’s lives. This article shows how older people’s services can link frailty...
Medicines-Related Falls Risk in Older People’s Services: Identifying and Managing High-Risk Changes
Medicines changes are a common but often under-recognised cause of falls in older people’s services. This article explains how providers identify high-risk medicines, manage periods of increased vulnerability after changes,...
Medicines-Related Falls Risk in Older People’s ...
Medicines changes are a common but often under-recognised cause of falls in older people’s services. This article explains how providers identify high-risk medicines, manage periods of increased vulnerability after changes,...
Responding Safely to Medicines Errors and Near Misses in Older People’s Care
Medicines errors are rarely about one individual. This article explains how older people’s services respond safely to errors and near misses through immediate containment, safeguarding decisions, learning reviews and system...
Responding Safely to Medicines Errors and Near ...
Medicines errors are rarely about one individual. This article explains how older people’s services respond safely to errors and near misses through immediate containment, safeguarding decisions, learning reviews and system...
Frailty-Aware Risk Management in Older People’s Services: From Paper Assessments to Daily Practice
Frailty is dynamic, not static. This article explains how providers move beyond generic risk assessments to frailty-aware daily practice, linking medicines, mobility, nutrition and escalation so staff recognise deterioration early...
Frailty-Aware Risk Management in Older People’s...
Frailty is dynamic, not static. This article explains how providers move beyond generic risk assessments to frailty-aware daily practice, linking medicines, mobility, nutrition and escalation so staff recognise deterioration early...
Falls Prevention and Post-Fall Response in Older People’s Services: Frailty-Informed, Risk-Enabling Practice
Falls rarely have a single cause—frailty, medicines, environment, hydration and confidence interact. This article shows how providers build risk-enabling falls prevention and post-fall response, including strength and balance routines, review...
Falls Prevention and Post-Fall Response in Olde...
Falls rarely have a single cause—frailty, medicines, environment, hydration and confidence interact. This article shows how providers build risk-enabling falls prevention and post-fall response, including strength and balance routines, review...
Medicines Safety in Older People’s Services: A Practical, CQC-Ready Operating Model
Medicines support is one of the highest-risk parts of older people’s care. This guide sets out how to run safe medicines processes day to day—reconciliation, MAR accuracy, PRN decision-making, escalation...
Medicines Safety in Older People’s Services: A ...
Medicines support is one of the highest-risk parts of older people’s care. This guide sets out how to run safe medicines processes day to day—reconciliation, MAR accuracy, PRN decision-making, escalation...