In this blog for healthy people who want to know what they can do to prevent high blood pressure and avoid the need to take medication, Robert Walton, a GP, looks at the Cochrane evidence and gives some hints and tips.  Take-home points  

In this blog for the families of people with dementia, doctors Charlotte Squires and James Garrard talk about drugs used to treat symptoms of agitation and psychosis in people with diagnosed dementia. They reflect on what doctors and families together might want to consider when making decisions about trying these treatments.

As part of our work at Cochrane UK, we monitor the impact of Cochrane Reviews and other Cochrane outputs. In other words, ‘what happens next?’ after reviews are published.

On this page, you can view the programme for 'Cochrane: collaborating for the future' (23rd and 24th May 2022), for those attending in-person or online. 

In a blog for non-medical people, James Garrard, Specialist Registrar in Geriatric Medicine, looks at the evidence on various drug and non-drug approaches to try and prevent dementia.

As part of the Transition Support Service, to support UK groups who may have limited or no Information Specialist capacity, Cochrane UK has contact details of a group of Information Specialists interested in undertaking freelance work. If you would like us to share any opportunities for work with this group, please send details of the task and expected skills and experience required, to Transitionsupport@ouh.nhs.uk

In a blog for people interested in ways to diagnose dementia, and the use of remote methods of assessment, Lucy Beishon, specialist trainee in geriatric medicine and NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer in Geriatric medicine, talks about evidence on assessing people for dementia by phone and video call, reflects on her experiences during the pandemic, and looks to the future.

With deaths from asthma attacks the highest they have been in a decade, GP Robin Carr blogs about three things you need to know that can reduce the risk of death from asthma in school-aged children, and shares a film ‘Preventable’, made with teenagers about preventing asthma deaths in schools.

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