This alarm is not a drill: We call gerontological nurses to act on climate change

Taking the bad news with the good: The climate crisis and care for older people

“…From this point forward, we are placing environment, climate and sustainability at the centre of what we do and expect of our IJOPN community members including authors and reviewers. In September 2021, we said in a companion editorial to the landmark statement by Atwoli et al (2021) that we ‘encourage current and aspiring authors to describe implications for climate change and sustainability in the discussion sections of their manuscripts, along with addressing the other standard implications for future research, education, practice and policy.’ (Baumbusch et al, 2021). We applaud those authors who took our encouragement and discussed those implications in the manuscripts published since that editorial.…”

No silver bullet: Contending with the commercial determinants of health and overmedicalisation

“…Yet extant evidence offers a stark counterpoint. The International Journal of Older People Nursing ( IJOPN ) Editorial Team which I lead already noted earlier this year (Baumbusch et al, 2023) that many nurses remain unaware that our industry emits notably high levels of greenhouse gases. The global contribution of healthcare greenhouse emissions is about 5% globally and closer to 10% here in the United States where I live (Lenzen et al, 2020).…”