Each year, National Nurses Week offers an opportunity to reflect on the extraordinary role nurses play in our health care ...

Dignity in Care is no longer just a mantra - progress on the campaign is kicking in, writes Anabel Unity Sale, and a project in Leeds shows how best practice can be achieved Everyone wants to be ...

Identifying loss of dignity and lack of respectful treatment as preventable harms in health care, researchers at Johns Hopkins have taken on the ambitious task of defining and ensuring respectful care ...

Ensuring dignity in the care and wellbeing of those with dementia is a critical issue. New research has been investigating how to improve nutrition in people with dementia. New training and subsequent ...

Older people need timely information about what they are entitled to and what they can expect from services in order to maintain control and independence. Good experience is partly dependent on having ...

The baby boomers are getting older: This year, 4 million people in America will turn 65. In her new book, The Age of Dignity: Preparing for the Elder Boom in a Changing America, author Ai-jen Poo says ...

Mr. J was a 67-year-old man with an end-stage gastrointestinal malignancy. Having decided he no longer wished to go on living, he had gone on a hunger strike, precipitating an admission to an ...