November 2020 issue of Age and Ageing journal is out now

A full table of contents is available here, with editorials, research papers, expert reviews, short reports, case reports and more.

Hot topics in this issue include:

• Covid-19
• Adverse Drug effects
• Gait and cognition
• Choosing geriatric medical careers
• Exercise to reduce frailty

There are several free to view and Open Access articles in this issue which can be read and downloaded without subscription:

• Prevention and infection control of COVID-19 in nursing homes: experience from China
• Respiratory epidemics and older people
• Research with older people in a world with COVID-19: identification of current and future priorities, challenges and opportunities
• Virtual geriatric clinics and the COVID-19 catalyst: a rapid review
• Association of frailty with mortality in older inpatients with Covid-19: a cohort study
• The impact of delirium on outcomes for older adults hospitalised with COVID-19
• Walking in humans: how much brain function is needed?
• Generating guardians of the longevity dividend
• Global pandemic—the true incidence of adverse drug reactions
• Anticholinergic drugs and incident dementia, mild cognitive impairment and cognitive decline: a meta-analysis
• Relationship between sarcopenia and orthostatic hypotension
• Transitions between frailty states in the very old: the influence of socioeconomic status and multi-morbidity in the Newcastle 85+ cohort study
• Impact of frailty on health-related quality of life 1 year after transcatheter aortic valve implantation
• Dual decline in gait speed and cognition is associated with future dementia: evidence for a phenotype
• Effect of allopurinol on phosphocreatine recovery and muscle function in older people with impaired physical function: a randomised controlled trial
• Feasibility and acceptability of the ‘Acutely Presenting Older Patient’ screener in routine emergency department care
• Quinine exposure and the risk of acute kidney injury: a population-based observational study of older people
• Do home modifications reduce care home admissions for older people? A matched control evaluation of the Care & Repair Cymru service in Wales
• The role of illness acuity on the association between frailty and mortality in emergency department patients referred to internal medicine
• A qualitative evaluation of the effect of a longitudinal dementia education programme on healthcare student knowledge and attitudes
• The Pathfields Tool: a frailty case-finding tool using primary care IT—implications for population health management
• Faecal microbiota transplantation as a home therapy to frail older people
• Escalating the dose and downgrading the rhythm: the combination of prescribed and non-prescribed medications resulting in an abnormal heart rhythm