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Age and Ageing Journal now highest ranked journal in the Geriatrics & Gerontology category

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AGENDA: Issue 85 | MDT

15 June 2022

This issue focuses on the secret weapon when it comes to caring for older people - our superhero multidisciplinary team! Hear from nurses, pharmacists, geriatricians, reseachers, trainees and more as they discuss how their role impacts the health of ageing adults. This content is limited to members only.

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AGENDA: Issue 84 | Future of ageing

15 March 2022

What will geriatrics look like for the next generation? From living longer with Down's syndrome to ageing without children or living with the effects of climate change, we look at what the older people of tomorrow will experience, and how we can plan ahead to optimise their health and care. This content is limited to members only. 

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AGENDA: Issue 83 | Community

30 November 2021

The relaunch issue! With a brand new look, feel and name, the BGS Newsletter debuts as AGENDA, with a celebration of community services around the country working to keep older people healthy and out of hospital. This content is limited to members only.

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Delirium Hub: Introduction

24 November 2021

A series of resources which provide an introductory overview of delirium.

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End of Life Care in Frailty: Introduction and Foreword

12 May 2020

Introduction from Dr Eileen Burns, Consultant Physician and Past President of British Geriatrics Society, and foreword by Dr Sarah Russell, family carer.

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Clinical guidelines

Silver Book II: Foreword and Introduction

22 February 2021

This chapter of the Silver Book II sets out the context, scope and purpose of the publication.

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Scottish Care of Older People (SCoOP) Project

20 January 2021

Scottish Care of Older People (SCoOP) is a Scottish national evaluation project focusing on care of older people across Scotland in both primary and secondary care settings.

COVID-19: Vaccinations and older people

Updated 22 March 2022

The BGS was pleased that older people were prioritised for access to the first and second doses of the COVID vaccine. As the booster programme gets underway in the UK, this page brings together current information on vaccination, including BGS statements and useful external links.

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Age and Ageing Journal now highest ranked journal in the Geriatrics & Gerontology category

01 July 2022

Age and Ageing, the scientific journal of the British Geriatrics Society, is now the most highly ranked journal (out of 54) in the ‘geriatrics and gerontology’ category, with an increased Journal Impact Factor1 of 12.782.

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Notice of election for BGS President Elect

28 June 2022

The BGS is holding an election for its next President Elect. Members will be able to vote from 28 June at 9am until 22 July at 11.59pm.

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Baroness Sally Greengross OBE, 1935-2022

27 June 2022

All at the BGS were very sad to hear last week of the death of Baroness Sally Greengross. She was a staunch advocate for the rights of older people, a tireless campaigner and a leader of great vision and integrity.

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BGS welcomes new report ‘Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals’

23 June 2022

The BGS welcomes a new report published by the Senedd Health and Social Care Committee, Hospital discharge and its impact on patient flow through hospitals. This report concludes the Committee’s inquiry into this topic to which BGS was pleased to submit both written and oral evidence.

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BGS statement on care homes High Court ruling

03 May 2022

The BGS has commented on the High Court ruling that policies in the early weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic failed to take account of the risks posed to older and vulnerable residents from patients being discharged from hospitals to care homes.

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Former BGS President elected President of the Royal College of Physicians

14 April 2022

The BGS is delighted to learn that one of its past Presidents, Professor David Oliver, has been elected as the new President of the Royal College of Physicians London (RCP).  

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Research on the role of immune cells in delirium to be undertaken by third BGS/Dunhill Doctoral Training Fellow

05 April 2022

Dr Hannah Moorey has been awarded the third joint British Geriatrics Society/Dunhill Medical Trust Doctoral Training Fellowship to support her PhD researching delirium. Hannah is a geriatric registrar in the West Midlands, and will undertake her doctorate at the University of Birmingham.

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Leon and Janet Wormley win BGS Special Medal for Online Pandemic Exercise Classes for Older People

06 April 2022

The British Geriatrics Society (BGS) awards its Special Medal each year to someone who has made an outstanding contribution to promoting the health and wellbeing of older people. It recognises non-clinical professionals who have gone the extra mile through their work or volunteering in supporting older people. This year’s winner is Leon Wormley.

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Running for Richard and AgeUK

23 June 2022

Following the COVID-19 pandemic, the work of AgeUK is more important than ever. Older people have been more likely to develop COVID-19, more likely to become severely unwell or disabled as a consequence of COVID-19 and have been the group most affected by social isolation.

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Empowering better end-of-life care for people with dementia

22 June 2022

New research from King’s College London found that people living with dementia experience higher levels of unplanned hospital admissions towards the end of life compared with the period immediately following their dementia diagnosis. The study found that 40% of all unplanned hospital admissions after a diagnosis of dementia took place in the last year of life.

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Memorable Event: me and my handwriting

09 June 2022

Writing is a form of communication. Hence, from a very young age onwards, there is an emphasis on having good handwriting. We are taught how to write capital letters, lowercase letters and then how to join them up, beautifying them and making them legible.

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Playlist for Life

18 May 2022

Dementia Action Week is 16-22 May and the theme this year is diagnosis. For me things have become more personal with a close family member just having received a diagnosis of dementia. To say it’s hard is an understatement and it certainly feels a very far cry from the call for people to ‘live well’ with dementia. There’s no getting away from the negative aspects around the time of diagnosis of dementia, but it’s not long before positives need to be found. And for me, and my family, that has been trying to keep as many aspects of life as accessible and constant as possible. One of those, and something that can bring much joy in life, is listening to music.

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Long-term lifestyle behaviors of older women with exceptional episodic memory

16 May 2022

More than 100 years after its discovery, Alzheimer's disease (AD) has become one of the greatest medical and social challenges of our generation.

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Following the road less travelled from accountant to academic nurse

11 May 2022

Leaving university at 22, my only aim was to be paid well and I planned to achieve this by training as a Chartered Accountant. My aim was met, but over the years, I found the work as an auditor unsatisfying. A career break to care for my three young children resulted in me deciding to train as a nurse. My first staff nurse job was on a healthcare of the older person ward. The ward had a high proportion of patients with dementia. I had received no training on how to care for these patients’ complex needs during my nursing diploma and none was offered post-qualification. 

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On International Nurses Day, leadership matters

12 May 2022

Leadership has played a pivotal role in setting out my main priorities as vice-chair of the BGS Nurses and AHP council. My goal has been delivering high- quality person centred care for the older population. Nursing leadership is most successful when the entire team is also successful. To achieve this, I have a key role in influencing and engaging all members of the healthcare team to drive and improve healthcare for older adults.

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From Bulawayo to Leicester, how continuous education informs professional practice

13 May 2022

My journey started in September 2000, on a lonely long-haul flight from the city of Bulawayo in Zimbabwe, coming to England for an interview at De Montfort University Nursing School in Leicester.

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AGENDA: Issue 85 | MDT

15 June 2022

This issue focuses on the secret weapon when it comes to caring for older people - our superhero multidisciplinary team! Hear from nurses, pharmacists, geriatricians, reseachers, trainees and more as they discuss how their role impacts the health of ageing adults. This content is limited to members only.

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Appropriate deprescribing in older people

20 April 2022

Older people are often taking several medications, but regular review of their benefits or risks is as of yet not part of standard care. This themed collection aims to improve patient outcomes and the sustainability of deprescribing approaches.

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Urgent care for older people

20 April 2022

How best to deliver geriatric care across the whole hospital? This collection outlines key articles that are attempting to develop solutions to this challenging conundrum. 

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Movement disorders

20 April 2022

Movement disorders are a diverse and challenging group of neurological conditions. Geriatricians and allied health professionals play a key role in the care of patients living with these disorders. Age and Ageing is making freely available online a collection of 15 papers which highlight the breadth and depth of this field. 

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Delirium research, education, and practice

20 April 2022

Delirium research and clinical care has seen great strides in the last decade. This collection provides an overview of the range of research in delirium covering prevention and prediction, interventions and their health economic evaluations, outcomes following delirium, and clinical application in a review of the recent SIGN guidelines.

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Qualitative research in Age and Ageing

20 April 2022

This themed collection of Age and Ageing articles includes a selection of papers published over the last 10 years which highlights the value of qualitative methodologies in health services research, particularly in understanding patient experience of health and illness and decision making about treatment and preventive care.

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Developments in stroke medicine

20 April 2022

The field of stroke medicine has seen significant advances and there is an ever increasing awareness that there are real opportunities to make a dramatic difference to stroke patients. Age and Ageing has charted our progress, publishing key research, and sharing ground-breaking ideas and knowledge. This online collection showcases some of the very best of such work.

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Economics of ageing

20 April 2022

A collaborative collection on the topic of economics of ageing and pensions, from Oxford Review of Economic Policy,  Journal of Public Health, and Age and Ageing.

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