Age and Ageing Volume 50, Issue 3, May 2021
This page gives a summary of the May 2021 issue of Age and Ageing, journal of the British Geriatrics Society, which is available in full to subscribers and BGS members. Rowan Harwood’s Editor’s View also gives an overview of this latest issue and highlights some of the hot topics for readers.
COVID-19 section
- Follow-up services for delirium after COVID-19—where now?
- The COVID rehabilitation paradox: why we need to protect and develop geriatric rehabilitation services in the face of the pandemic
- What is the relationship between validated frailty scores and mortality for adults with COVID-19 in acute hospital care? A systematic review
- Age and frailty are independently associated with increased COVID-19 mortality and increased care needs in survivors: results of an international multi-centre study
- Frailty is associated with in-hospital mortality in older hospitalised COVID-19 patients in the Netherlands: the COVID-OLD study
- Atypical symptoms, SARS-CoV-2 test results and immunisation rates in 456 residents from eight nursing homes facing a COVID-19 outbreak
- Mass testing after a single suspected or confirmed case of COVID-19 in London care homes, April–May 2020: implications for policy and practice
- ‘Getting back to normality seems as big of a step as going into lockdown’: the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on people with early to middle stage dementia
- ‘We have become prisoners of our own age’: from a continuing care retirement community to a total institution in the midst of the COVID-19 outbreak
- COVID-19 testing in English care homes and implications for staff and residents
- Delayed health consequences of COVID-19 lockdown in an older adult
New Horizons
Editorials
- Transitioning into care: moving into a care home
- Atrial fibrillation and oral anticoagulation in older adults: an update
Commentaries
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Why we need to evaluate long-term antidepressant use in older patients with depression
- Adopting an adaptation‑mitigation‑resilience framework to ageing
Systematic Reviews
- The effect of ageing on presentation, management and outcomes in degenerative cervical myelopathy: a systematic review
- Inspiratory muscle training for improving inspiratory muscle strength and functional capacity in older adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis
- Does vascular endothelial dysfunction play a role in physical frailty and sarcopenia? A systematic review
- Diagnostic accuracy of the 4AT for delirium detection in older adults: systematic review and meta-analysis
- Prevalence of atrial fibrillation and outcomes in older long-term care residents: a systematic review
Review
Research papers
- Weight-adjusted waist index reflects fat and muscle mass in the opposite direction in older adults
- Impact of endovascular reperfusion therapy in nonagenarians with anterior circulation large-vessel ischaemic stroke
- Short physical performance battery as a practical tool to assess mortality risk in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- Does identifying frailty from ICD-10 coded data on hospital admission improve prediction of adverse outcomes in older surgical patients? A population-based study
- Exploring the reciprocal relationship between cognitive function and edentulism among middle-aged and older adults in China
- Mortality of older patients with dementia after surgery for chronic subdural hematoma: a nationwide study
- The Iconographical Falls Efficacy Scale (IconFES) in community-dwelling older people—a longitudinal validation study
- Short-latency inhibition mitigates the relationship between conscious movement processing and overly cautious gait
- Telomere length and its relationships with lifestyle and behavioural factors: variations by sex and race/ethnicity
- Do I lose cognitive function as fast as my twin partner? Analyses based on classes of MMSE trajectories of twins aged 80 and older
- Clinical clustering of eight orthostatic haemodynamic patterns in The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA)
- Monetary value of informal caregiving in dementia from a societal perspective
- Cognitive dispersion and ApoEe4 genotype predict dementia diagnosis in 8-year follow-up of the oldest-old
- Environmental hazards increase the fall risk among residents of long-term care facilities: a prospective study in Shanghai, China
- The effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of assistive technology and telecare for independent living in dementia: a randomised controlled trial
- The Clinical Frailty Scale predicts adverse outcome in older people admitted to a UK major trauma centre
- Current characteristics and early functional outcome of older stroke patients: a population-based study (Dijon Stroke Registry)
- The impact of pain on the course of ADL functioning in patients with dementia
Qualitative papers
- Older patients’ perspectives toward lifestyle-related secondary cardiovascular prevention after a hospital admission—a qualitative study
- Problems faced by people living at home with dementia and incontinence: causes, consequences and potential solutions
- Perceived versus objective sleep quality in long-stay hospitalised older adults—a mixed methods study
Short reports
- Motoric cognitive risk syndrome and incident dementia in older adults from the Québec NuAge cohort
- Planning to move into a nursing home in old age: does sexual orientation matter?
- Time-efficient physical activity interventions to reduce blood pressure in older adults: a randomised controlled trial
- Management of patients admitted to hospital with acute vertebral fragility fractures: a modified Delphi study
- Suboptimal management of hypernatraemia in acute medical admissions
- How to design a hypertension treatment trial that informs care of older people with frailty: a survey of clinicians in Ireland and the UK
Case reports
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Severe brachial plexopathy secondary to shingles (herpes zoster)
- Dysphagia due to necrotizing otitis externa