BGS Spring Meeting 2025: Results of Abstract Adjudication

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Table of results

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Abstract ID
Title Outcome Session
3054 Use of Falls Risk Increasing Drugs in older people, before and after hospitalisation with a fall President Round 12.20-12.25
3093 Barriers and facilitators to engagement in fall interventions among older adults from ethnic backgrounds: a systematic review President Round 12.25-12.30
3030 What do older adults value about family physician encounters? Insights from a systematic review of international evidence President Round 12.30-12.35
3129 Attitudes and Perceptions of Chinese Older Adults toward the Use of Home-care Robots President Round 12.35-12.40
3177 Sex Differences in the Associations Between Social Vulnerability, Frailty, 5-year Survival and Long-Term Care Home Entry President Round 12.40-12.45
3144 Healthy Ageing in Place: Perspectives on 'Local' and Age-Friendliness in the Built Environment President Round 12.45-12.50
3175 Symptom burden and impact on quality of life for those with advanced Parkinson?s in a rural area President Round 12.50-12.55
3049 Delirium prevalence in hospitalised inpatients across specialities: A review of a single hospital site. President Round 12.55-13.00
3153 Comparison of Free-Cog with the Mini-Mental State Examination and Lawton-Brody Functional Scales President Round 13.00-13.05
3170 Factors associated with high adherence to secondary preventative medications 12 months after a stroke President Round 13.05-13.10
3141 Quality Improvement: Integrating Speech & Language Therapy into a Hospital at Home service for Older People living with Frailty Platform Presentation Weds CQ session 14.30-14.45
3127 Improving Palliative Discharges using the GREAT framework. Platform Presentation Weds CQ session 14.45-15.00
3115 Maintaining Independence in People with Dementia who have had a fall: a pilot cluster randomised controlled trial (Maintain) Platform Presentation Weds  Major  Trauma and Falls 11.30-11.45
3124 Rehabilitation after an episode of delirium: Mixed methods process evaluation of the RecoverED multi-site feasibility study Platform Presentation Fri Renal and Transplants 10.45-11.00
3190 End-of-Life Dementia Care: A Qualitative Study of the Experiences and Perceptions of Minority Ethnic and Economically Disadvanta Platform Presentation Fri Renal and Transplants 10.30-10.45
3114 A rehabilitation intervention to improve Recovery after an Episode of Delirium in adults over 65 years (RecoverED) Platform Presentation Weds  Major  Trauma and Falls 11.45-12.00
3052 Efficacy and safety of daridorexant in patients >65years with insomnia Platform Presentation Thurs Platfrom presentations 14.50-15.05
3134 Effectiveness of the SmartJournal digital intervention on oral hygiene in nursing home residents: A cluster randomised trial Platform Presentation Fri Platform Presentations 11.45-12.00
3176 Disparities in Parkinson?s service provision for those living in a rural area of North West England Platform Presentation Weds Movement Disorders 15.00-15.15
3199 Memory function and post-traumatic stress disorder related to civilian conflict: Findings from the NICOLA study Platform Presentation Weds Movement Disorders 15.15-15.30
3174 Air Filtration to prevent symptomatic winter Respiratory Infections in care homes:The AFRI-c cluster randomised controlled trial Platform Presentation Thurs Plaform Presentations 15.05-15.20
3189 Isomyosamine for the Treatment of Sarcopenia in Older Adults Platform Presentation Fri Platform Presentations 11.30-11.45
3135 Factors influencing fall prevention programmes: The challenge of implementing the FaME programme in a complex landscape. Lightning Round Poster Lightning Rounds 11.30-11.35
3136 Improving Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) in Dementia Research: Building conditions for impact Lightning Round Poster Lightning Rounds 11.35-11.40
3053 Efficacy and safety of daridorexant in patients with chronic insomnia disorder and comorbid nocturia Lightning Round Poster Lightning Rounds 11.40-11.45
3085 Functionality in post-COVID 19 older adults vs older adults who have not suffered from COVID 19 attending Geriatric OPD Lightning Round Poster Lightning Rounds 11.45-11.50
3097 Nurses? Views and Perspectives of Pain Assessment and Management in Residents with Advanced Dementia in Long-term Care Settings Lightning Round Poster Lightning Rounds 11.50-11.55
3102 Practitioners? Perspectives on Medicine Optimisation for Older People from Ethnic Minorities with Polypharmacy in Primary Care Lightning Round Poster Lightning Rounds 11.55-12.00
3143 Active and Connected: Place Utilisation to Enhance Physical and Social Activity in Mid-to-Older Adults Lightning Round Poster Lightning Rounds 12.00-12.05
3196 Proxy indicators to support independent ageing-in-place in older people with frailty: a Delphi-style expert consultation survey Lightning Round Poster Lightning Rounds 12.05-12.10
3162 Reliability and Repeatability of a Portable Bio-Impedance Measurement Device in Early Parkinson's Disease Lightning Round Poster Lightning Rounds 12.10-12.15
3125 A longitudinal observational study on older adults with increased-risk alcohol use and their nutritional status. Lightning Round Poster Lightning Rounds 12.15-12.20
3147 Horizon Scanning for the Identification of Interventions for Prevention, Delay, and Treatment of Sarcopenia Lightning Round Poster Lightning Rounds 12.20-12.25
3010 Improving the assessment and management of bone health on an Acute Frailty Unit Poster  
3022 Using the Irish Hip Fracture Database to drive improvement in Older Adult Care Poster  
3033 Delirium epidemiology and outcomes ? is there value in a delirium best practice tariff? Poster  
3036 Evaluation of a new regional pathway for Medicines Optimisation in Older People (MOOP) medicines adherence pharmacist optimising Poster  
3059 Collaborative reviews of anticholinergic burden (ACB)scores in primary care following discharge from secondary care after a fall Poster  
3068 Promoting the reduction of sedative use in older adults with delirium ? A QI project Poster  
3082 Get It On Time: In-Patient Administration of Parkinson?s Disease Medications in South Tyneside & Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust Poster  
3084 A Quality Improvement Project assessing the delivery of music therapy on a Care of the Elderly Ward and its impact on patients w Poster  
3094 Delirium Assessment and Management in Health Care for Older People Wards at Good Hope Hospital: a Quality Improvement Project Poster  
3111 Evaluation of prescribing patterns in severely frail older adults in an acute geriatric ward according to the STOPPFrail criteri Poster  
3130 Onwards and Upwards: The success of a mobilisation standard for Irish Hip Fractures Poster  
3137 Feasibility and benefits of an online psychosocial group for family carers of people with Lewy body dementia Poster  
3188 Improved Discharge Summaries for Older Patients: A Step Toward Better Continuity of Care with Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment Poster  
3204 Bone Health Assessment in Stroke Rehabilitation Poster  
3212 Collaborative Care in Frailty: Evaluating the Clinical Effectiveness of Nurse-Pharmacist Partnerships. Poster  
3225 Delirium Assessments in an Acute Frailty ward: An Audit of Current Practice Poster  
3088 Can the length of stay on Intermediate Care Units (ICUs) be reduced for non-weight bearing patients? Poster  
3095 Reduction in the use of nursing enhanced observation within acute care. Poster  
3149 Measuring vitamin D post hip fracture ? should we test or just treat? Lessons learnt from an ortho-geriatric rehab unit. Poster  
3197 Collaborative Care: Enhancing Frailty Management Through Nurse-Pharmacist Partnerships Poster  
2937 From Mobility and Beyond Poster  
2999 An Audit of The Impact of Bone Health Assessment In Residential Home Patients Poster  
3013 A new community based approach to the care of Acute Delirium Poster  
3023 Older adults are now the face of Major Trauma in Ireland Poster  
3044 An overview of the Dementia UK Consultant Admiral Nurse service supporting families affected by frailty and dementia Poster  
3092 Nursing home nurses? experience in an acute teleconsultation service: a qualitative study Poster  
3118 NOGG Guidelines and Application In Practice: Analysis of 3 years of NHFD data and bone health service provision at Royal Albert Poster  
3131 Follow up of Housebound and Care Home Patients with Parkinson?s Poster  
3132 Quality Improvement Project: Clinical Frailty Assessment during clerking for the older patient. Poster  
3152 Introducing an onco-geriatrics referral pathway for frail older adults living with cancer Poster  
3154 Lumbar Puncture to Diagnose Alzheimer?s Disease Within A Geriatrician-Led Memory Service Is Well-Tolerated Poster  
3178 VARIATION IN MISSED OPPORTUNITIES FOR SECONDARY FRACTURE PREVENTION Poster  
3180 A review of injectable bone health medication first dose administration following a hip fracture Poster  
3184 IV Zoledronic Acid post-discharge care for patients in the Trauma ward, Craigavon Area Hospital Poster  
3185 Proactive Ageing Well screening at a community Musculoskeletal physiotherapy event in Lambeth: lessons learnt. Poster  
3201 Evaluation of a New Frailty On-Call Shift for Geriatric SpRs at St Thomas' Hospital (STH) Poster  
3207 Utilising Digital Questionnaires to Identify Frailty in Older Patients on the Elective General Surgery Waiting Lists Poster  
3209 Route to a Streamline Transient Ischemic Attack Pathway: A Quality Improvement Initiative Poster  
2935 Improving delirium assessments in acute senior health: A quality improvement project for care of the older person Poster  
2998 A Review Of The Impact of A Medication Review On Polypharmacy and Anti-Cholinergic Burden In Residential Home Patients Poster  
3024 How can prehabilitation help patients waiting for lumbar spinal stenosis surgery? Preliminary results of a realist review Poster  
3027 Identifying and coding patients appropriate for the gold standard framework on discharge from an inpatient gastroenterology ward Poster  
3029 Analgesia in the elderly: Improving prescribing practices in patients following a fall ? a QIP Poster  
3037 Testing a model of anticipatory care for people living in a residential care home setting, the MOOP (pharmacy) contribution. Poster  
3062 Supportive Care and Cognitive Rehabilitation at Home in the Management of Early Neurocognitive Disorders in General Practice Poster  
3067 Venous Thromboembolism Prophylaxis: Prescribing and Deprescribing in Frailty Patients. Poster  
3072 Quality Improvement: Enhancing IPC Application in Stroke Care Poster  
3120 Perioperative management of patients with Parkinson's Disease: A review of disease management Poster  
3159 Improving multidisciplinary team working: A multipronged quality improvement project in a tertiary care university hospital Poster  
3173 Standardised admissions proforma improves patient focused care and reduces length of stay Poster  
3191 Evaluating a Frailty Same Day Emergency Care Service: Patient and Family Perspectives Poster  
3194 Assessing the impact of ALONE’s community-based services for older people Poster  
3198 Better Updates, Better Care: Improving the communication with relatives in geriatric surgical patients Poster  
3215 Reducing anticholinergic burden (ACB) within the healthcare for older people?s (HCOP) wards Poster  
3216 Patient-Centred Collaborative Care: Enhancing Frailty Management Through Nurse-Pharmacist Partnerships Poster  
3083 IMPROVING POST-FALL CARE FOR INPATIENTS AT NORTH MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL Poster  
3086 Hello ISSiT Me (you?re looking for): In-Situ Simulation for The Multidisciplinary team in care of the elderly wards Poster  
3087 A Quality Improvement Project Assessing the Timely Administration of Anti-Parkinsonian Medications Following an Acute Admission. Poster  
3163 Reducing the anticholinergic burden of patients in the inpatient and outpatient setting. Poster  
3221 Collaborative Care: Enhancing Frailty Management and Patient Safety Through Nurse-Pharmacist Partnerships Poster  
3202 Promoting patient-centred inpatient care for Parkinson?s Disease by upskilling knowledge and confidence  of   ward staff Poster  
3167 The Impact of Lifestyle and Polypharmacy on the progression of Multimorbidity in Community-Dwelling Older Adults Poster  
3203 Socioeconomic status, depressive symptoms and poor sleep associated with worse cognitive performance: Findings from NICOLA. Poster  
3213 DNA methylation in the Northern Ireland Cohort for the Longitudinal Study of Ageing (NICOLA) ? recruitment and characteristics Poster  
3217 Volunteering, Informal Support, and Biological Ageing: International epigenetic effects of helping behaviours on ageing Poster  
3073 Review of the effectiveness of transdermal lidocaine for osteoarthritic pain Poster  
3099 Correlation of Inflammatory Biomarkers in Geriatric Patients with Sarcopenia -A Case Control Study Poster  
2505 Barriers perceived by medical students when considering a career in geriatric medicine. Poster  
3060 Canadian Geriatrics Society : The Aging Care 5Ms  Competencies for Graduating Medical Students Poster  
3079 Simulating advance care planning discussions for healthcare professionals and its impact on patients and learners Poster  
3171 Better mealtimes for people living with dementia in care homes: A feasibility study Poster  
3172 Rising Student Numbers ? using a Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment exercise to educate surplus students? Poster  
3187 Would you be a Geriatrician? The evolution of medical student perceptions of geriatric medicine from 2010 to 2024 Poster  
3047 A time-series analysis to examine the impact of COVID-19 on psychotropic medication use by care home residents with dementia Poster  
3048 The contribution of chronic conditions in the association between socioeconomic disadvantage and frailty among Swiss adults Poster  
3090 Identifying and visualizing multimorbidity patterns and network among older adults in Southern China Poster  
3126 Antidepressant and anxiolytic use and mortality risk in people with dementia in Northern Ireland: a nested case-control study Poster  
3150 The Impact of Infections on Telomere Dynamics: Insights from a Systematic Review Poster  
3206 Older adults living in rural areas of Northern Ireland report better health, health behaviours and neighbourhood support Poster  
3218 Directly genotyped apolipoprotein (APOE) allele status associated with worse cognitive performance in the NICOLA study Poster  
2917 Anticholinergic Burden, Falls and Mortality in a Diverse Elderly Population in Kuala Lumpur Poster  
3034 Exploring the use of bedrails when used to support adults: A scoping review. Poster  
3051 GaitKeeper: Revolutionising Standardised Gait Speed Measurement with AI-Enabled Mobile Technology Poster  
3055 Is appetite related to the occurrence of future falls in older adults with upper limb fracture? Poster  
3140 Maintaining independence at home after a fall: A realist process evaluation of the MAINTAIN multicomponent dementia intervention Poster  
3195 Determinants of Survival of Elderly Patients with Colorectal Adenocarcinoma: A population-based analysis of 191,417 patients Poster  
3138 Older Patientsand Caregivers Perceptions of and Attitudes to Deprescribing in Saudi Arabia: A Cross-Sectional Study Poster  
3046 Unseen Spine: A Case of Infective Discitis masked by diverticulitis in elderly care patient Poster  
3050 The prevalence and impact of medication-related harm in people living with dementia ? a systematic review Poster  
3113 The increasing number of deaths related to Alzheimer?s (AD) over the last decade Poster  
3151 Effectiveness of a brief video based intervention on the intention to book future vision and hearing assessments. Poster  
3128 Patients presenting with signs and symptoms of Delirium/Dementia: when to suspect CJD Poster  
3139 Do preoperative ECG abnormality at pre-assessment predict cardiac complications in patients undergoing major non-cardiac surgery Poster  
3123 Daily fluid intake is reduced in people with early Parkinson's disease compared with controls Poster  
3205 Polypharmacy and quality of life in older people: where do we stand? A narrative review Poster  
3169 Priorities for Irish Research into Loneliness among Older People: Results of a Roundtable Discussion Poster  
3142 Development of tools and criteria to select and prioritise candidate interventions for early-phase sarcopenia clinical trials. Poster  
3121 Trend in the number of femoral fractures and its impact on timely surgery Rejected  
3028 Implantable Loop Recorders – South East Ireland Experience Rejected  
3089 Can we improve communication about medication changes? A Quality Improvement Project in an Older Persons Assessment Unit Rejected  
3091 The role of EHCPs in Urgent Care planning and response for older people approaching the end of life Rejected  
3112 An audit of prescribing practices in severely frail older adults according to NICE guidelines Rejected  
3155 A Quality improvement project aimed at improving the experience of the internal medicine training application process Rejected  
3157 Analysis of the anti-cholinergic burden on older adults and interventions to reduce the number of high-risk category patients Rejected  
3165 Hospital-at-Nursing Home (HaNH): a pilot in Singapore Rejected  
3166 Scoping out Fibreoptic Endoscopic Evaluation of Swallowing (FEES) in Older Adults in an acute hospital setting Rejected  
3168 Measuring Anticholinergic Burden Score(ACB) in Acute Admissions with Delirium in a District General Hospital Rejected  
3181 A Review of Traumatic Brain Injury Management in the first year of the National Major Trauma Centre (MTC) service, Ireland Rejected  
3183 Age-Related Differences in the Predictors of Outcomes for Subdural Haematoma Rejected  
3032 The Impact of Prolonged Postoperative Length of Stay on Health Outcomes and Cost in Femur Fragility Fracture Patients Rejected  
3110 An audit on the practices around vitamin-D levels in older adult rehabilitation settings Rejected  
3117 #ChooseGeriatrics at Royal Surrey County Hospital Rejected  
3186 A review of using the Clinical Frailty Scale in Taiwan Rejected  
3210 SipTilSend: Implementation for hip fracture patients at Broomfield Hospital, Chelmsford Rejected  
2938 A service evaluation investigating longer-term exercise adherence following attendance of a virtual bone health exercise class Rejected  
3003 The elderly and family ? Considerations on Nursing Care during hospital admission for surgery Rejected  
3081 Physicians? perspective on Implementation Outcomes of Humanitude© Care in frail older patients in the acute hospital Rejected  
3100 Understanding and Improving Practice of Advance Care Planning within the Department of Older People at Northwick Park Hospital Rejected  
3103 What is the prevalence of large vessel occlusion in patients presenting with acute ischaemic stroke in North Wales? Rejected  
3105 Establishing a Geriatric-Oncology Optimisation Clinic at UCLH ? Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy Outcomes Rejected  
3116 A snapshot of ?Treatment Escalation Plan? completion in frail patients at Royal Sussex County Hospital Rejected  
3122 Reducing Inappropriate Polypharmacy in Frailty: A Quality Improvement Project Rejected  
3145 Improving pharmaceutical care for frail older adults across NHS Lanarkshire?s Community Hospitals. Rejected  
3160 An analysis of the use of cerebrospinal fluid samples in memory clinic in the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease. Rejected  
3179 What Happens to Older People from Care Homes Who Are Assessed for Head Injury? Rejected  
3223 Improving the assessment of oral health and management of mouthcare in our acute frailty ward. Rejected  
3019 Prevalence of Anticholinergic Burden across a cohort of frail older adults in a District General Hospital in South West Wales Rejected  
3038 Specialist case management pharmacist medicine review to reduce falls risk for care home residents Rejected  
3039 Paw Prints in Patient Care: Enhancing Pressure Ulcer Prevention Through Visual Indicators. Rejected  
3057 Inappropriate Naloxone Use in Palliative Care Patients Rejected  
3098 Evaluation of 28-Day Re-Admission Rates in Older Adults: Identifying Predictable and Preventable Factors in a Hospital Setting Rejected  
3148 Hypocalcaemia after inpatient injectables for hip fracture patients ? lessons learnt from an ortho-geriatric rehab unit. Rejected  
3161 Audit of Opioid Prescribing Practices for Rib Fractures at Tallaght University Hospital Rejected  
3222 DNR Status in the Older Population Rejected  
3108 Decreasing trend in deaths due to acute kidney injury (AKI) in people above 75 Rejected  
3192 Estimating the prevalence of dementia and mild cognitive impairment in Northern Ireland Rejected  
3211 Using mHealth app to increase self-care self-efficacy and health-related quality of life for healthy ageing at home Rejected  
3101 Clinicopathological Correlation and Laboratory Investigations in Dementia Rejected  
3104 Non-Pathological Brain Ageing vs Dementia Rejected  

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