Age and Ageing collections

Age and Ageing is the journal of the British Geriatrics Society publishing refereed original articles and commissioned reviews on geriatric medicine and gerontology. Its range includes research on human ageing and clinical, epidemiological, and psychological aspects of later life. We have collated articles published in Age and Ageing around subtopics into themed collections relevant to BGS members. For more Age and Ageing articles, please click here.

Syncope in older adults

Syncope can have devastating consequences, resulting in fall-related injuries, accidents or even death. In our ageing society, the subsequent healthcare usage, such as emergency room presentations, surgeries and hospital admissions, form a significant and growing socioeconomic burden.

Evidence Synthesis for Older Adults

Hearing conditions in older people

Falls in older people 2022 update

Atrial Fibrillation, TIA and Stroke

Atrial Fibrillation, TIA and Stroke. A collection by Age and Ageing journal.

Ageing Meets Kidney Disease

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).

Age and Ageing collection: Care Homes

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.

Delirium research, education, and practice

Delirium research and clinical care has seen great strides in the last decade. This collection provides an overview of the range of research in delirium covering prevention and prediction, interventions and their health economic evaluations, outcomes following delirium, and clinical application in a review of the recent SIGN guidelines.

Developments in stroke medicine

The field of stroke medicine has seen significant advances and there is an ever increasing awareness that there are real opportunities to make a dramatic difference to stroke patients. Age and Ageing has charted our progress, publishing key research, and sharing ground-breaking ideas and knowledge. This online collection showcases some of the very best of such work.

Urgent care for older people

How best to deliver geriatric care across the whole hospital? This collection outlines key articles that are attempting to develop solutions to this challenging conundrum.

Appropriate deprescribing in older people

Older people are often taking several medications, but regular review of their benefits or risks is as of yet not part of standard care. This themed collection aims to improve patient outcomes and the sustainability of deprescribing approaches.

Age and Ageing collection: Movement disorders

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.

Longitudinal studies of ageing

Highlights the approaches, scope and impacts of a selection of longitudinal studies of ageing published in Age and Ageing within the past 10 years.

Clinical research methods for studies of older people

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.

Treatments in Dementia

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.

Bone health in older people

A selection of publications on aspects of bone health published in Age and Ageing over the years.

Sarcopenia research and practice

Selected key references that showcase developments in the field of sarcopenia, how definitions have evolved and evidence on prevalence, causes, and adverse effects.

Frailty in older people

This collection shows how far frailty has come, not just an abstract concept, but a condition with an established and important place in the healthcare of older people.

Qualitative research in Age and Ageing

This themed collection of Age and Ageing articles includes a selection of papers published over the last 10 years which highlights the value of qualitative methodologies in health services research, particularly in understanding patient experience of health and illness and decision making about treatment and preventive care.

Recruitment of older people to research

These papers are a helpful context for the BGS’s evolving Research Strategy, including the need to address recruitment issues.

Falls in older people

These articles have been selected by the Editor of Age and Ageing for inclusion in this special collection of the Journal's best articles on falls.

Economics of ageing

A collaborative collection on the topic of economics of ageing and pensions, from Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Journal of Public Health, and Age and Ageing.