The BGS Rehabilitation Group is a task and finish group assembled to address the issues surrounding rehabilitation and loss of function as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Resources

Group related
14
May
2024

Reablement, Rehabilitation, Recovery: Chapter two - Purpose and context

This chapter provides an overview of rehabilitation as a beneficial intervention for many ol
25
Apr
2018

4. CGA in Primary Care Settings: Functional and social assessment

Functional assessment examines factors like mobility and daily living activities, and social asse
21
Apr
2020

Keeping older people safe and well at home

These resources have been developed to help keep older people safe at home by reducing deconditio
28
Sep
2021

Guideline for the care of people living with frailty undergoing elective and emergency surgery

The Centre for Perioperative Care, working in collaboration with the British Geriatrics Society,

05
May
2020

End of Life Care in Frailty: Rehabilitation

This section of the BGS guidance on end of life care in older people looks at maintaining in
07
Sep
2021

Looking after your physical health: Do you practice what you preach?

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News

Group related
29
Jul
2020

‘Sit Up, Get Dressed and Keep Moving!’

Campaign relaunched to give healthcare professionals new resources to combat deconditioning in hos

Deconditioning & rehabilitation
05
Aug
2020

BGS responds to reports of a withdrawal of funding for COVID-19 rehabilitation

The British Geriatrics Society was alarmed to learn that there has been a U turn in Government pol
03
Jul
2020

Beneficial innovations from COVID-19

BGS members have been at the forefront of the COVID-19 pandemic and have been implementing i
24
Aug
2020

New NHS England hospital discharge funding: Your questions

Late on Friday 21 August, the Department of Health and Social Care announced a £588 million fund

24
Sep
2020

BGS urges the Chancellor to fund ongoing discharge care

Nineteen BGS officers and prominent members have joined forces to write to the Chancellor of the

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Blogs

Group related
28
Dec
2020

Rehabilitation: there’s never been a more important time

In the collaborative spirit of multidisciplinary rehabilitation, we crowdsourced the design of a

25
Feb
2021

Long Covid: An Age-old concept?

With over 69 million reported cases of COVID-19 worldwide, we have all experienced rapid and dram
09
Nov
2021

Timely Discharge Series: Right care, right time, right pathway

This is the ninth blog in the BGS’s ‘Timely Discharge’ series.
16
Nov
2023

Charting the course: Healthy mobility as we age

Change is the only constant in life, and this includes shifts in how our bodies function as we gr
30
Sep
2020

International Day of Older Persons: help get people moving more

We have a duty of care to encourage and engage older people who remain in their residences, shiel
27
Sep
2021

Do we really need a stethoscope in a rehabilitation ward?

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