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There has also been an increase in injuries on the geriatric wards.

However, few people would advocate a return to the "chronic geriatric wards" of old.

Fast-tracked, mature nurses might make a critical difference to the quality of care in our geriatric wards.

And he said the state would have to maintain expensive geriatric wards in prisons for elderly inmates who no longer pose a threat to society.

And don't even ask about geriatric wards like Italy and Japan, where a fifth of the population is already in retirement.

Specialist residential care and nursing homes are now far more common destinations for the elderley than geriatric wards or hospitals.

The first buildings to come down were the administration and recreation buildings, followed by the extended treatment and geriatric wards.

Geriatric wards, he thought.

Extensions to the hospital included a large outpatients clinic, geriatric wards and most wards now had emergency cover.

I used to go along to Greenbank Hospital's geriatric wards, where I sang and played to the old folk.

Its mission is to improve the lives of the veteran population by volunteering at long term care VA centers, usually in psychiatric and geriatric wards.

It is one of the safest hypnotics and was regularly given at bedtime in psychiatric hospitals and geriatric wards up to the 1960s.

"There are going to be huge geriatric wards," said Jenni Gainsborough, a lawyer with the National Prison Project.

Some states are already creating geriatric wards for prisoners who require more medical care, protection from aggressive inmates, different diets and even architectural alterations to accommodate wheelchairs.

A HEALTH authority yesterday pulled out of its battle with a 'whistle-blower' nurse who conducted a public campaign about conditions on hospital geriatric wards.

The facility also contained a boiler plant, garage, warehouse, administration building, recreation building, five extended treatment wards, two geriatric wards, and two kitchen buildings.

The "newer" section of Woodward Hall (built in the early 20th century at the same time Weeks Hall was built) still stands and houses the geriatric wards.

Wakari continued as a geriatric and psychiatric care facility, the geriatric wards gradually being wound down through the nineties with government reforms to privatise long-term care.

It admitted errors in disciplinary procedures against Mr Pink, 63, sacked for allegedly breaching patient confidentiality during his one-man campaign over under-staffing in three geriatric wards.

As global fertility rates grow more slowly and increasing prosperity enhances life expectancy, a complicated side effect has emerged: big chunks of the world are starting to look like geriatric wards.

Some of the 30 nurses working on the two long stay geriatric wards at Darlington's Greenbank Hospital are hoping to avert a management decision to make them wear their own clothes.

All over this country governments are spending more and more money on aging inmates - creating entire geriatric wards for prisoners no longer able to walk or talk, let alone maim or kill.

These studies examined nurse-patient communication in a variety of settings such as intensive care units, geriatric wards, surgical wards and radiotherapy units, and their findings were disturbingly consistent.

They do more than that because, through the drama they choose to write about, they also shine a spotlight on important issues around neglect in geriatric wards and the needs of older people.

Like geriatric wards at mental hospitals across the state, the day room is well scrubbed and cheerfully decorated, but most of the 18 elderly patients are lost in schizophrenic hazes, captives of their wheelchairs.