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New research published in Age and Ageing has shown that comprehensive medicines reviews are associated with a lower risk of death for residents of care homes.

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I chose a career in geriatric medicine, and latterly in stroke, as I was fascinated by the challenges of managing people with multiple medical problems and was in awe of how my consultant colleague

I knocked on the door. From behind the entrance Alan appeared weary and yet relieved to see a familiar face.

With the national agenda to create virtual wards has come an increasing demand to develop Hospital at Home (hospital@home, H@H) services.

One of the key challenges of being a geriatrician is to be able to gain a sense of the wider perspective of ageing.

Following the COVID-19 pandemic, the work of AgeUK is more important than ever.

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

Writing is a form of communication. Hence, from a very young age onwards, there is an emphasis on having good handwriting.

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.

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

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 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.

Leadership has played a pivotal role in setting out my main priorities as vice-chair of the BGS Nurses and AHP council.

In March of this year, after being qualified for almost five years, spending all my career in older people’s healthcare, and obtaining a masters level qualifications both in advanced practice and c

I’ll let you into a secret; I have a vested interest in international nurses- I raised one. My daughter was born in Tanzania, and is now a primary care nurse.

On a post-take ward round before Easter, I met a 97-year-old retired priest. Recently she had been in hospital for three weeks after a fall and fractured pubic ramus.

Future care plan discussions must become a mandatory part of patient care in any healthcare setting.

Geriatric medicine remains a Cinderella speciality.

I have reached that point in my PhD when everyone is asking me me “when is your PhD ending?”. I’m about halfway through and I’m enjoying it. I’m not wishing it away just yet!

We know that there will be significant health needs because of the war in Ukraine and that older adults will be at particular risk of adverse outcomes from environmental exposure, lack of basic res

A smartphone app has been shown by researchers to improve the diagnosis of vertebral fractures by helping medical professionals to make referral decisions based on how people are experiencing

Neighbourhood characteristics – from the location of medical services and how much green space there is, to the number of people involved in volunteer activities – can have a significant impact on

Fifty years on from the first ever issue of Age and Ageing, BGS Digital Media Editor Charlotte Squires takes a look back at the first issue and what has (or hasn't) changed in geriatric me