The global shift in demographics towards aging populations is leading to a commensurate increase in age-related disease and frailty. It is essential to optimise health services to meet current needs and prepare for anticipated future demands. This paper explores issues impacting on people living with cognitive impairment and/or dementia who experience a hip fracture and are cared for in acute settings. This is important given the high mortality and morbidity associated with this population. Given the current insufficiency of clear evidence on optimum rehabilitation of this patient group, this paper explored three key themes namely: recognition of cognitive impairment, response by way of training and education of staff to optimise care for this patient group and review of the importance of outcomes measures. Whilst there is currently insufficient evidence to draw conclusions about the optimal ways of caring for patients living with dementia following hip fracture, this paper concludes that future research should improve understanding of healthcare staff education to improve the outcomes for this important group of patients.

Uptakes of chromium(m), copper(Ir), iron(Ii), nickel(I1) and zinc(n) by wool were determined by inductively coupled plasma atomic emission and flame atomic absorption spectrometry. The order of uptakes at 100 "C for these metal ions was found to be Cu" > > Zn" > Crm > Fen > Ni".Further, the metal ion-treated wool samples were submitted to Fourier transform infrared spectrometric analysis, which was facilitated by chemometric methods (principal components analysis, soft independent modelling of class analogies and fuzzy clustering). This revealed the order of structure modification at the carboxyl group as a result of metal ion-wool interactions to be Crm > Cun > > Zn" > Fe" = Ni". The difference between the above two rank orders suggests that relatively large uptakes do not necessarily lead to the most significant structurally interactive effects in wool keratin.

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Background: Plasma neurofilament light (NFL) is consistently elevated in a range of dementias and has been shown to correlate with poorer cognition, cerebral hypometabolism and b-amyloidosis. Furthermore, a tight correlation between cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and plasma NFL measures has proposed this axonal