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This meeting has already taken place but is available to watch on demand until 24 May 2025.
This document aims to support prescribing decisions for older people with moderate to severe frailty. This information can be incorporated into shared decision-making conversations. It provides more lenient therapeutic targets than standard guidelines that better balance potential benefits and harms of medicines in this population.
Vaccination remains a central component of the UK’s public health strategy to protect older adults against seasonal respiratory infections, particularly during the winter months.
BGS key messages have been developed to provide members and multidisciplinary colleagues with topline information about specific issues relating to older people's healthcare. We encourage discussion of these issues with decision-makers and other stakeholders.
If there was a popularity contest for vitamins, Vitamin D would probably win with ease. Thousands of papers are published about it year after year.
Long-term conditions are diseases that cannot be cured, just controlled with medications. Over our lifetime we accumulate diagnoses, such that many people experience old age as a state of multimorbidity.
This Saturday the England Rugby team will step out onto the pitch at the International Stadium Yokohama, Japan, to compete in the Rugby World Cup Final.
This article lays out UK Health Security Agency’s guidance on how healthcare professionals can best prepare for hot weather and how to look after patients in extreme heat.
The BGS Pharmacy Group have assembled a list of helpful resources to guide clinicians on medicines management and deprescribing in older adults.
This document describes the care home sector across the UK as it currently stands, how health and wellbeing has traditionally been supported in care homes and sets out what good healthcare provision in a care home environment should look like.
The Patients Association's Care Home Charter was launched in 2019 to improve medication practices for people living in care homes across the UK.
This chapter of the Silver Book II covers the presentation of common geriatric conditions in an urgent care context.
This section of the BGS guidance on end of life care in older people examines the issue of polypharmacy at the end of life.
SCIE has published a guide and created an interactive web resource for home care managers providing medicines support.
Falls are a frequent and frightening issue for patients and staff, and they have physical and psychological consequences for individuals and society. They are costly in human and financial terms (National Institute for Health and Clinical ExceIlence 2004).
The STOPPFall is more comprehensive than most national falls prevention guideline listings. It can provide a first step towards harmonising the practice and guidelines on drug-related falls in Europe.
This page brings together guidance and practical advice for the management of older adults with COVID-19 in the community, including drug treatment and examples of standard operating procedures (SOPs).
Collection of A&A articles covering current treatment, preventative methods, and future strategies to combat the consequences of dementia, providing an update on the advances of pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions.
Infectious diseases account for a significant proportion of hospital admissions and deaths in the elderly. Unfortunately the immunological response to vaccines in older individuals is less than that in younger adults. We assess best practice in immunisation programmes among older people.
The rate of older people undergoing surgical procedures is increasing faster than the rate of population ageing . Despite this progress, older surgical patients remain at increased risk.
Many older adults with frailty are prescribed multiple medicines for various health conditions, and careful management of this polypharmacy is crucial to ensure medicines are appropriate and safe.