King’s College London academics, Professor Ruth Harris and Dr Joanne Fitzpatrick, alongside Senior Editor, Professor Fiona Ross, Kingston University and Dr Claire Abley, The Newcastle Upon Tyne Hospitals Foundation Trust, have published the long-awaited new edition of Redfern’s Nursing Older People. 

The book provides accessible, evidence-based information for nurses, care assistants and other health professionals wanting to improve the quality of health and social care for older people.

Now named in honour of Sally Redfern, the founding editor, who was a leading academic at King’s for many years, this fifth edition has been revised and rewritten by a team of expert contributors. 

New contributions to the book for the fifth edition explore emerging challenges, such as understanding frailty, the use of digital technology, diversity, service-user perspectives and the impact of COVID-19. 

The comprehensively revised edition has 36 chapters drawn from the fields of nursing, social sciences, gerontology and healthcare practice. It applies the best evidence in straightforward and practical ways to the challenges of ageing. It focuses on nursing-led solutions to improving activities of daily living, independence and preventing common problems of ageing, illustrating these complex problems in an accessible way.