Free collection of Age and Ageing papers for the BGS Autumn Meeting 2020

This collection of Age and Ageing papers has been selected to complement the programme of the BGS Autumn Meeting 2020 which is taking place online from 25 to 27 November. We hope delegates and those following the conference on Twitter via #BGSconf will enjoy this further reading.

The #BGSConf Collection

• Optimal healthcare delivery to care homes in the UK: a realist evaluation of what supports effective working to improve healthcare outcomes
• Do home modifications reduce care home admissions for older people? A matched control evaluation of the Care & Repair Cymru service in Wales

• New horizons in radiotherapy for older people

• Prevalence and associations of orofacial pain and oral health factors in nursing home residents with and without dementia

• The impact of frailty on healthcare resource use: a longitudinal analysis using the Clinical Practice Research Datalink in England

Nurses and AHPs

• Understanding and improving multidisciplinary team working in geriatric medicine

• Understanding which people with dementia are at risk of inappropriate care and avoidable transitions to hospital near the end-of-life: a retrospective cohort study

• Driving in Parkinson’s disease: a retrospective study of driving and mobility assessments

• Virtual geriatric clinics and the COVID-19 catalyst: a rapid review
• COVID-19 outbreak: organisation of a geriatric assessment and coordination unit. A French example

• Moving more, ageing happy: findings from six low- and middle-income countries

• The COVID-19 rehabilitation pandemic
• Changes in muscle strength and physical function in older patients during and after hospitalisation: a prospective repeated-measures cohort study 

• Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment in the perioperative setting; where next?

• Burnout in UK care home staff and its effect on staff turnover: MARQUE English national care home longitudinal survey 

• Mild cognitive impairment: the Manchester consensus

• Massive Open Online Courses: enhancing caregiver education and support about dementia care towards and at end of life

• Understanding and identifying ways to improve hospital-based cancer care and treatment for people with dementia: an ethnographic study

• Phenotyping nocturnal polyuria: circadian and age-related variations in diuresis rate, free water clearance and sodium clearance

• Where are we now in perioperative medicine? Results from a repeated UK survey of geriatric medicine delivered services for older people

• Use of a digital delirium pathway and quality improvement to improve delirium detection in the emergency department and outcomes in an acute hospital

• New horizons in iron deficiency anaemia in older adults

• FORWARD (Feeding via the Oral Route With Acknowledged Risk of Deterioration): evaluation of a novel tool to support patients eating and drinking at risk of aspiration