title: Try to be a skilled companion to older people this Christmas.
abstract: Nurses are usually busy at this time of year, as pressure on health and social care services rises for the holiday season. Yet for some frail, older people, especially those who have outlived many of their generation of family and friends, this can be an especially lonely time.
mesh_terms: D003704:Dementia / Q000451:nursing*; D005851:Geriatric Nursing; D006693:Holidays; D006801:Humans; D008132:Loneliness; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations