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Presentations from 2021 North West Autumn Meeting (3 CPD Points)
This section of the BGS Delirium Hub examines some of the current research and evidence on delirium.
The Age and Ageing care home collection and commentary draws together important papers that show how our journal is helping to shape and grow care home research.
The Northern Region Spring Meeting 2021 was held on 24 March 2021
The COGER study is collecting data to gain insight into the course of functional and medical recovery in older people affected by COVID-19 participating in rehabilitation across Europe.
The PRINCIPLE trial aims to find treatments for COVID-19 for older people and stop them needing to go to hospital. The trial is recruiting participants through its website and GP practices across the UK.
Research is an essential part of the global and UK strategy and response to COVID-19. This is the British Geriatrics Society statement on research for older people during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Selected key references that showcase developments in the field of sarcopenia, how definitions have evolved and evidence on prevalence, causes, and adverse effects.
The NIHR Funder Resource Pack is designed to strengthen connections between research funders and the Clinical Research Network, to help improve research delivery in the NHS.
The National Dementia Strategy aims to increase the numbers of participants with dementia into clinical research. But recruiting people with dementia can be challenging. What do you need to think about when planning a study involving patients with dementia?
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).
Movement disorders are a diverse and challenging group of neurological conditions. Geriatricians and allied health professionals play a key role in the care of patients living with these disorders. Age and Ageing is making freely available online a collection of 15 papers which highlight the breadth and depth of this field.
PROTECT is a UK-wide clinical trial to identify treatments that can protect care home residents from developing COVID-19.
Highlights the approaches, scope and impacts of a selection of longitudinal studies of ageing published in Age and Ageing within the past 10 years.
For this online research methodologies collection we have selected key Age and Ageing publications aimed at improving the quality of clinical research for older people.
This review features 53 studies funded by the National Institute of Health Research, which was set up to address the needs of the NHS.
These papers are a helpful context for the BGS’s evolving Research Strategy, including the need to address recruitment issues.
This list of preferred and non-preferred terminology has been compiled to help healthcare professionals, academic authors and the general public avoid language that might be deemed unacceptable or inappropriate when describing the health of older people.
What is Quality Improvement (QI) and why is it important to consider in the context of older people's healthcare? This section discusses the different origins and approaches to QI.