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Older people have many unmet needs with multiple physical, psychological and social problems, yet older people often lack adequate access to palliative care.

Hypnosis can prove a valuable therapeutic weapon used as an adjunct or an alternative to conventional patient care. GPs should acquire appropriate skills at educational courses.

This article outlines some of the conditions that can cause pruritus (itchiness) in the older patient and discuss the various ways it can be managed.

Complications following stroke include hemiplegic shoulder pain (HSP), which can adversely affect patient participation in the rehabilitation process.

Advancing age is the single greatest risk factor for colorectal cancer (CRC), with over 90 percent of cases occurring in the over 60 years age group.

In this article, Dr Olayinka Ogundipe discusses management of Bony cervical disease in rheumatoid arthritis.

This article examines the evidence and discusses the role of angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors in the management of heart failure.

Frontotemporal dementia is a group of neuropsychiatric syndromes arising from progressive degeneration of the frontal lobes, anterior temporal lobes or both.

Osteoporosis and the fractures that it causes are extremely common. One in two women and one in five men over the age of 50 years will suffer a fracture.

Abuse of the elderly is a subject no one likes to acknowledge exists, yet it does and it is essential to know how prevalent elder abuse is. Fortunately there is a drive afoot to raise awareness. 

Pneumonia is more likely to be fatal or cause more profound disease in older patients than in younger age groups because of the increased incidence of comorbidities in this population. 

Strategies for the management of angina in the older population should be the same as within a younger population.

Up to two thirds of older people will either have or will develop a mental disorder during their hospital stay with the most common being depression and dementia.

Over the past 20 years, an improved understanding of the pathophysiology of cardiovascular disease (CVD) has led to developments in the management of the condition.

In this article, Dr Brian Crichton discusses how best to screen for, treat and manage Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (BPH), also known as benign prostate enlargement (BPE), in primary care.