Margot Lindsay

• UCL

PATIENTS AND carers expect to be engaged in a partnership with healthcare practitioners and wish to be informed about and involved in decisions. The hallmark of high quality care is responding effectively to the needs of each individual. The CARE approach is a framework for empathic, person-centred healthcare interactions.

Jackie Morris, dignity champion of the British Geriatrics Society, identifies a lack of systematic approaches to the management of common health problems in care homes (reflections September 7).

This is the centenary of Dermod MacCarthy and James Robertson who together changed the care of children away from home. Both were born in March 1911, MacCarthy in a Square off the Kings Road in London and Robertson in the Gorbles, a deprived area of Glasgow.In 1948 Bowlby appointed Robertson to observe children separated from parents. Children in h...

This book aims to help the development of psychological understanding and psychological perspective. Bender examines the process of people worrying about their declining intellectual skills; reactions to this shaped by negotiations with family members, and how the framing of these difficulties is changed by interacting with mental health workers. H...

This Article discusses the importance of public outreach and education in the judicial system. The Article advocates for various court-sponsored outreach programs to increase citizen contact with the courts for problem solving purposes. It also addresses such alternatives as community courts and neighborhood advisory boards. It discusses measures t...

I was sorting things out pretty well. They had been attending for only a few weeks, but I had managed to reduce their multiple drug regimens and to diagnose and control his atrial fibrillation. Bill and Netty were a delightful couple, always attending together and obviously devoted to one another. Their delight in their new sheltered house and enjo...

The number of patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) per year is increasing. Despite advances in surgical techniques, cerebral vascular accident (CVA) post cardiac surgery is increasing. CVA is a severe neurological complication of cardiac surgery which increased length of stay, morbidity and mortality, and rehabilitation. It is...