End of life care

This section of the BGS guidance on end of life care in older people encourages the multidisciplinary team to consider social, practical and emotional needs.

This section of the BGS guidance on end of life care in older people looks at maintaining independence and function in older people towards the end of life.

This section of the BGS guidance on end of life care in older people looks at the religious, spiritual and cultural aspects that may influence appropriate end of life care.

This section of the BGS guidance on end of life care in older people looks at the emotional and psychological needs that may be present as an older person approaches the end of life.

This section of the BGS guidance on end of life care in older people examines the issue of polypharmacy at the end of life.

This section of the BGS guidance on end of life care in older people looks at swallowing difficulties in the final phase of life.

Introduction from Dr Eileen Burns, Consultant Physician and Past President of British Geriatrics Society, and foreword by Dr Sarah Russell, family carer.

This section of the BGS guidance on end of life care in older people addresses nutritional needs at the end of life. 

This section of the BGS guidance on end of life care in older people covers the identification and management of delirium in older people at the end of life.

This section of the BGS guidance on end of life care in older people looks at the investigation and management of falls in the last phase of life.

This section of the BGS guidance on end of life care in older people examines the management of continence-related issues in frail older people at the end of life. 

This section of the BGS guidance on end of life care in older people examines the management of pain in older people living with frailty at the end of life.

This section of the BGS guidance on end of life care in older people examines the management of acute deterioration in the context of frailty at the end of life. 

This section of the BGS guidance on end of life care in older people looks at the role of advance care planning (ACP) in helping to make decisions about a persons wishes for the future.

This section of the BGS guidance on end of life care in older people examines how to identify when a person with frailty is entering the last year of life.

View presentation slides from the Joint BGS, Macmillan and RCR OncoGeriatrics Meeting 2019 held on 27-28 February 2019 in London.

Samuel Willis describes the value of stories - telling them and listening to them. It creates bonds and humanises the teller and listener.

Learn more on the importance of diagnosis and managing chronic kidney disease in older adults through this collection from Age and Ageing in collaboration with the ERA journals Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation (NDT) and Clinical Kidney Journal (CKJ).

This statement sets out the BGS position on assisted dying, our priorities for end of life care, and our concerns that effective legal safeguards cannot be created to protect older people from unwarranted harms.

Rose Miranda argues that not only researchers, doctors and nurses should be aware of the phenomenon of pain in people with dementia. We need to make the public aware of it too.