Age and Ageing Volume 50, Issue 2, March 2021
This page gives a summary of the March 2021 issue of Age and Ageing, journal of the British Geriatrics Society. The journal is available in full to subscribers and BGS members and there is a sizable proportion of free or Open Access content which can be read without a subscription. Rowan Harwood’s Editor’s View gives an overview of this latest issue and highlights some of the hot topics for our readers.
COVID-19 section
- Pandemic research for older people: doing it better next time
- Efficacy and safety of COVID-19 vaccines in older people
- Venous thromboembolic events in patients with COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis
- Rapid review of decision-making for place of care and death in older people: lessons for COVID-19
- Comparing associations between frailty and mortality in hospitalised older adults with or without COVID-19 infection: a retrospective observational study using electronic health records
- Effect of the COVID-19 lockdown on disease recognition and utilisation of healthcare services in the older population in Germany: a cross-sectional study
- Clinical profile and predictors of in-hospital mortality among older patients hospitalised for COVID-19
- SEeking AnsweRs for Care Homes during the COVID-19 pandemic (COVID SEARCH)
- Life in lockdown: a telephone survey to investigate the impact of COVID-19 lockdown measures on the lives of older people (≥75 years)
- Frailty state utility and minimally important difference: findings from the North West Adelaide Health Study
- The Hospital Frailty Risk Score—outcomes in specialised services
- Interventions to ameliorate reductions in muscle quantity and function in hospitalised older adults: a systematic review towards acute sarcopenia treatment
- A rapid point-of-care ultrasound marker for muscle mass and muscle strength in older adults
- A practitioner behaviour change intervention for deprescribing in the hospital setting
New Horizons
Editorial
Commentaries
- Classifying discharge scenarios to improve understanding and care
- Paving the translational ageing research pathway—training the next generation of researchers
Guideline Commentary
Systematic Reviews
- Effectiveness of virtual reality technology on functional mobility of older adults: systematic review and meta-analysis
- Functional objective parameters which may discriminate patients with mild cognitive impairment from cognitively healthy individuals: a systematic review and meta-analysis using an instrumented kinematic assessment
- Interventions to ameliorate reductions in muscle quantity and function in hospitalised older adults: a systematic review towards acute sarcopenia treatment
- Diagnosing serious infections in older adults presenting to ambulatory care: a systematic review
Research papers
EDITOR'S CHOICE: Discharge after hip fracture surgery by mobilisation timing: secondary analysis of the UK National Hip Fracture Database
- Impact of place of residence, frailty and other factors on rehabilitation outcomes post hip fracture
- The association between ward staffing levels, mortality and hospital readmission in older hospitalised adults, according to presence of cognitive impairment: a retrospective cohort study
- Cost-effectiveness of a preventive self-care health management program for community-dwelling older adults: a randomised controlled trial
- Frailty among middle-aged and older Canadians: population norms for the frailty index using the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging
- Potentially inappropriate prescribing in dementia, multi-morbidity and incidence of adverse health outcomes
- Deprescribing in older people approaching end-of-life: development and validation of STOPPFrail version 2
- Cholesterol profiles and incident cognitive decline among older adults: the Shanghai Aging Study
- Can health behaviours prolong survival and compress the period of survival with the disability? A population-based cohort study
- Moving more, ageing happy: findings from six low- and middle-income countries
- The multifaceted spectrum of liver cirrhosis in older hospitalised patients: analysis of the REPOSI registry
- A rapid point-of-care ultrasound marker for muscle mass and muscle strength in older adults
- The Hospital Frailty Risk Score—outcomes in specialised services
- A dose response relationship between accelerometer assessed daily steps and depressive symptoms in older adults: a two-year cohort study
- Medication appropriateness on an acute geriatric care unit: the impact of the removal of a clinical pharmacist
Qualitative papers
- The experience of uncertainty for patients, families and healthcare providers in post-stroke palliative and end-of-life care: a qualitative meta-synthesis
- Pathways to help-seeking for sexual difficulties in older adults: qualitative findings from the third National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (Natsal-3)
Short reports
- Statin use and discontinuation in Danes age 70 and older: a nationwide drug utilisation study
- Sexual satisfaction of middle-aged and older adults: longitudinal findings from a nationally representative sample
- Frailty state utility and minimally important difference: findings from the North West Adelaide Health Study
- Follow-up of a Wuqinxi exercise at home programme to reduce pain and improve function for knee osteoarthritis in older people: a randomised controlled trial
- Inpatient hypoglycaemia in older people is associated with a doubling in the increased length of stay compared with the younger population
- A practitioner behaviour change intervention for deprescribing in the hospital setting
- The association between loneliness and medication use in older adults
Case Report
Clinical Reminders
Letter to the Editor