title: A full agenda.
abstract: By the time you read this a new government will have been elected and RCN Congress will have come and gone. How do we, as nurses caring for and working with older people with mental health needs, engage in these events? The policy agenda concerning older people has never been fuller but does all this activity ignite within you a desire to act for the greater good of nursing and older people, or does it make you feel despondent and complacent?
authors.affiliation: Chair of the RCN Mental Health and Older People Forum.
authors.forename: Sharon
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Blackburn