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This paper explores the findings from a recent study about the assessment and management of care for older people who may have a sensory impairment. Using qualitative research methods, the work focused on non‐specialist practitioners who are responsible for the assessment and management of care for older people and their carers. The findings are based upon the analysis of in‐depth interviews with non‐specialist practitioners, specialist workers and managers from statutory and voluntary sector agencies. Older people with a hearing impairment or a visual impairment are not a homogenous group of people with a single set of needs or service support networks. It is the existence of non‐specialist practitioners, carrying out the assessment and management of care for older people that draw together in one study the three areas of visual impairment, hearing impairment and dual impairment. The findings relate to practitioners' awareness of sensory impairment in their local community; how practitioners assess and manage care; access to services; staff training and development; and, information strategies. The interface between non‐specialists and practitioners with particular expertise in sensory impairment is also examined. The implications for policy and practice are identified.

‘No company, no matter how big on paper, can continue to show the kind of meagre return on investment that a number of oil companies have been showing over recent years. They are simply not generating anything like enough profit for reinvestment.’

Sir Philip Foreman, CBE, DL, chairman and managing director of Short Brothers PLC, the Belfast‐based aerospace manufacturer, has been elected 1985–86 President of the 78,000‐member Institution of Mechanical Engineers. He succeeds the retiring President, Dr Waheeb Rizk, with effect from the Institution's Annual Meeting today (Wednesday, 22 May).

Traditional patterns of communications between universities and students are multifaceted, relying on a range of printed handbooks, guides, and publications, many of which are available only on the university campus at staff, administration, and student union offices. There is a fundamental mismatch between this method of information distribution and the profile of many institutions of higher education which see a significant proportion of students studying part time either on‐campus, or, increasingly, off‐campus.

PROFESSIONALISM in Manufacturing Engineering should not only be measured by the degree of success in current performance, but also by the quality of decisions made today which will affect output performance and competitiveness ten to fifteen years in the future. Obviously, the further ahead one tries to foresee the future in the control of machine tools, the less accurate will be the reality. This paper describes the actions being taken in one manufacturing facility based on a concept of how Turbine and Compressor Discs will be produced fifteen years from now.

Advanced Composite Components Ltd, parent company of the Advanced Composites Group at Heanor, Derbyshire, has recently been approved to Ministry of Defence Standard 05–21, in addition to its current CAA Approval.