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Physical health problems, particularly chronic health problems such as obesity, diabetes and smoking-related illnesses, are more common in people with long-term mental illness.
Learn more on the importance of diagnosis and managing chronic kidney disease in older adults through this collection from Age and Ageing in collaboration with the ERA journals Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation (NDT) and Clinical Kidney Journal (CKJ).
The British Geriatrics Society welcomes the new GIRFT (Getting It Right First Time) national report on geriatric medicine.
The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted more widespread and earlier decision-making regarding resuscitation status. Although case fatality rates were higher for older hospitalised patients with COVID-19, many older patients survived the illness. Advance care planning should be prioritised in all patients and should remain as part of good clinical practice despite the pandemic.
Physical functioning, role functioning and depressive symptoms deteriorate over the last 5 years of life of older people with cancer. End-of-life care needs to put their social and psychological well-being at the centre, alongside physical needs.
The desire to live into advanced ages is significantly reduced by hypothetical adverse life scenarios, with the strongest effect caused by dementia and chronic pain.
WTD amongst community-dwelling older people is frequently transient and is strongly linked with the course of depressive symptoms and loneliness. An enhanced focus on improving access to mental health care and addressing social isolation in older people should therefore be a public health priority, particularly in the current context of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Perspectives on the COVID-19 pandemic and its affect on members' mental and emotional health, aired at the BGS Autumn Meeting 2020.
This section of the BGS guidance on end of life care in older people collates relevant external resources and signposting links for easy reference
This section of the BGS guidance on end of life care in older people looks at the final days of life in people with frailty.
This section of the BGS guidance on end of life care in older people covers legal and ethical implications.
This section of the BGS guidance on end of life care in older people looks at the needs of those approaching the end of their lives in prison.
This section of the BGS guidance on end of life care in older people covers the specific considerations of providing end of life care in care home settings.
This section of the BGS guidance on end of life care in older people looks at how good end of life care in frail older people can be achieved in the community.
This section of the BGS guidance on end of life care in older people looks at specific issues which may arise in people living with dementia towards the end of life.
This section of the BGS guidance on end of life care in older people encourages the multidisciplinary team to consider social, practical and emotional needs.
This section of the BGS guidance on end of life care in older people looks at maintaining independence and function in older people towards the end of life.
People with dementia are not children. They are adults with a lifetime’s experience. Yet they are not entirely dissimilar. They are vulnerable and they can be as distressed and disoriented as a child.
Presentations from our recent conference, Living and dying well with frailty which took place on the 6th March 2018