Mapping the journey
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Mapping the journey

Jane Gallagher Senior Sister, East Dean Ward, Eastbourne Hospital, East Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust

Jane Gallagher describes how the care she helped give to one patient enabled her to understand how she would like to be treated in older age

Older people’s care is not the field that most nurses or carers seek to pursue. Historically it has been perceived as an area you go to when you want to get out of the fast lane or no longer need ‘a challenge’.

Nursing Older People. 16, 2, 39-39. doi: 10.7748/nop2004.04.16.2.39.c2306

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