I would like to share my positive experience and my observation. Firstly, throughout my placement, the Hospital at Home team (HAHT) staff were so helpful, supportive and friendly. I had a fantastic time and learnt so much along the way. I felt entirely part of the team, which was nice, and the teamwork is great.

During my visits to patients’ homes, I got the opportunity to learn how each patient is unique, and how the nurses were doing everything they could to put the patients’ needs first ...

I first started seriously considering a career in geriatrics when I was in third year of medical school. I was on a general medical ward, and I went with a geriatrics registrar to see a lady in her late 80s with dementia who was a ‘social admission’. Although it would have been easy to have just written ‘medically fit for discharge’ in her notes and moved on, the doctor I was with helped her sit up in bed, refilled her water jug and drew her attention to the beautiful view out of the window. This was the first time I had seen that medicine could be like this and it excited me about medicine in a way that I had not experienced since I started university. ...