Age and Ageing Volume 50, Issue 4, July 2021
This page gives a summary of the July 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 gives an overview of this latest issue and highlights some of the hot topics for our readers.
COVID-19 section
- Models will only get us so far: planning for place of care and death
- Changes in psychological distress before and during the COVID-19 pandemic among older adults: the contribution of frailty transitions and multimorbidity
- COVID-19 infection and attributable mortality in UK care homes: cohort study using active surveillance and electronic records (March–June 2020)
- Impact of COVID-19 on care-home mortality and life expectancy in Scotland
- The demography and characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 seropositive residents and staff of nursing homes for older adults in the Community of Madrid: the SeroSOS study
- Documentation of Do-Not-Attempt-Cardiopulmonary- Resuscitation orders amid the COVID-19 pandemic
- The COVID-19 pandemic appears to have increased longevity in Japanese centenarians
New horizons
- New Horizons in the impact of frailty on pharmacokinetics: latest developments
- New horizons in cardiogeriatrics: geriatricians and heart failure care—the custard in the tart, not the icing on the cake
Editorials
- Potential biases when observing increased mortality risk in association with smoking cessation among older adults
- Hyponatraemia in older people is usually multifactorial and commonly iatrogenic
Commentaries
- Delayed transfers of care for older people: a wider perspective
- Can person-centred care for people living with dementia be delivered in the acute care setting?
Guidelines
Systematic reviews
- Diagnostic accuracy of dementia screening tools in the Chinese population: a systematic review and meta-analysis of 167 diagnostic studies
- Safety and efficacy of very short dual antiplatelet therapy followed by P2Y12 inhibitor monotherapy in older patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention: meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials
- Reasons for discontinuing oral anticoagulation therapy for atrial fibrillation: a systematic review
- Abdominal obesity, body mass index and the risk of frailty in community-dwelling older adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Review
Research papers
- Awareness of the use of hyponatraemia-inducing medications in older adults with hyponatraemia: a study of their prevalent use and association with recurrent symptomatic or severe hyponatraemia
- Active management of hyponatraemia and mortality in older hospitalised patients compared with younger patients: results of a prospective cohort study
- Impaired hydration status in acutely admitted older patients: prevalence and impact on mortality
- The impact of dementia on aged care service transitions in the last five years of life
- Early Mobilization in Older Adults with Acute Cardiovascular Disease
- Control of blood pressure in older patients with heart failure and the risk of mortality: a population-based prospective cohort study
- The mortality rate of Parkinson’s disease and related comorbidities: a nationwide population-based matched cohort study in Korea
- STOPPFall (Screening Tool of Older Persons Prescriptions in older adults with high fall risk): a Delphi study by the EuGMS Task and Finish Group on Fall-Risk-Increasing Drugs
- Activities of daily living at hospital admission and estimated survival time of older patients
- A comparison of two national frailty scoring systems
- Consumption of dietary nuts in midlife and risk of cognitive impairment in late-life: the Singapore Chinese Health Study
- Social isolation, loneliness and functional disability in Chinese older women and men: a longitudinal study
- The value of ambulatory blood pressure measurement to detect masked diastolic hypotension in older patients treated for hypertension
- Vision, vision-specific functioning and mobility, and their relationship with clinically assessed cognitive impairment
- General practitioner conduct of clinical services representing comprehensive geriatric assessment is associated with lower risk of mortality in older Australians receiving home care packages
- A medical history of arterial thrombosis is a strong predictor of post-operative myocardial infarction and stroke in patients with hip fractures—a nationwide cohort study
- The My Active and Healthy Aging ICT platform prevents quality of life decline in older adults: a randomized-controlled study
- Dual impairments in visual and hearing acuity and age-related cognitive decline in older adults from the Rancho Bernardo Study of Healthy Aging
- The association between an early diagnosis of dementia and secondary health service use
- Social gradient of self-rated health in older people—the moderating/mediating role of sense of community
- ‘Real world’ effectiveness of the Falls Management Exercise (FaME) programme: an implementation study
- Smoking cessation in late life is associated with increased risk of all-cause mortality amongst oldest old people: a community-based prospective cohort study
- Trends in prevalence and outcomes of frailty in a Swiss university hospital: a retrospective observational study
- Inter-rater reliability of care home staff ’s proxy judgements with residents’ assessments of their own health-related quality of life: an analysis of the PATCH trial EQ-5D data
- The ‘Wish to Die’ in later life: prevalence, longitudinal course and mortality. Data from TILDA
- Mortality risk associated with combinations of loneliness and social isolation. Findings from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA)
- Patterns of multimorbidity trajectories and their correlates among Korean older adults
- Balance and cognitive decline in older adults in the cardiovascular health study
- Patterns of multimorbidity and their association with hospitalisation: a population-based study of older adults in urban Tanzania
Qualitative papers
- ‘Patients come with two garbage bags full of problems and we have to sort them.’ A qualitative study of the experiences of healthcare professionals on patients admitted to short-term residential care in the Netherlands
- How quality improvement collaboratives work to improve healthcare in care homes: a realist evaluation
- Discordance between dementia caregivers’ goal of care and preference for life-extending treatments
Quality improvement report
Short reports
- Rotigotine patch prescription in inpatients with Parkinson’s disease: evaluating prescription accuracy, delirium and end of- life use
- Development and validation of an aetiology in delirium diagnostic support tool
- A classification tree to assist with routine scoring of the Clinical Frailty Scale
- Factors associated with virtual care access in older adults: a cross-sectional study
- Oropharyngeal dysphagia in older patients with hip fracture
- Cycle more with virtual reality: a proof of concept study in an institutionalised able-bodied geriatric population
Case reports
Clinical reminders
- Fall with acute traumatic central cord syndrome in an older patient
- The delicate balance between over- and underdiagnosis in older people: a simple inguinal hernia?