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A smartphone app has been shown by researchers to improve the diagnosis of vertebral fractures by helping medical professionals to make referral decisions based on how people are experiencing back pain.

Fifty years on from the first ever issue of Age and Ageing, BGS Digital Media Editor Charlotte Squires takes a look back at the first issue and what has (or hasn't) changed in geriatric medicine.

In this guest blog Candace Imison, from the NIHR Centre for Engagement and Dissemination, speaks about a recently published Collection that brings together NIHR-funded research in care homes and asks how this research could be used to improve the quality of care.

Providing person-centred care in acute settings to people living with dementia is a complex challenge, but a new BGS position statement hopes to offer clarity and guidance, as explained by Professor Rowan Harwood.

In this video blog, Mike Nicholson, an Edinburgh-based writer and social researcher, tells some of the real life stories of those living and working in care homes during the pandemic.

Des O’Neill reports on the 17th EuGMS Congress that was held virtually in Athens in October.

Dhanupriya Sivapathasuntharam and Mark Baxter set out the case for forming a Special Interest Group (SIG) dedicated to major trauma in older people.

The BGS Autumn Meeting 2021 marks the beginning of the term of office for a number of new BGS officers. We are incredibly grateful for the energy and commitment that all our officers bring to their roles.

This is the ninth blog in the BGS’s ‘Timely Discharge’ series. We aim to raise awareness of the detrimental effects on older people of being stuck in hospital when they are 'medically fit for discharge'. Our blog series explores the causes of delayed discharges, the knock-on effects to the wider health and social care system, and what needs to change.