title: Ace launch.
abstract: To my great joy, on Easter Saturday I became a grandmother. But as a nurse specialising in the care of elderly people I must confess it presented me I with something of an identity crisis. The stereotyped ideas about old age suddenly seem very close to home and I don't much like the tag 'Granny Smith' (would you?). All the arguments about that much abused word 'geriatric' have come into sharp focus in my mind.
authors.forename: Janet
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Smith