November 2020 issue of Age and Ageing journal is out now
09 November 2020
A full table of contents is available here, with editorials, research papers, expert reviews, short reports, case reports and more.
Hot topics in this issue include:
- Covid-19
- Adverse Drug effects
- Gait and cognition
- Choosing geriatric medical careers
- Exercise to reduce frailty
There are several free to view and Open Access articles in this issue which can be read and downloaded without subscription:
- Prevention and infection control of COVID-19 in nursing homes: experience from China
- Respiratory epidemics and older people
- Research with older people in a world with COVID-19: identification of current and future priorities, challenges and opportunities
- Virtual geriatric clinics and the COVID-19 catalyst: a rapid review
- Association of frailty with mortality in older inpatients with Covid-19: a cohort study
- The impact of delirium on outcomes for older adults hospitalised with COVID-19
- Walking in humans: how much brain function is needed?
- Generating guardians of the longevity dividend
- Global pandemic—the true incidence of adverse drug reactions
- Anticholinergic drugs and incident dementia, mild cognitive impairment and cognitive decline: a meta-analysis
- Relationship between sarcopenia and orthostatic hypotension
- Transitions between frailty states in the very old: the influence of socioeconomic status and multi-morbidity in the Newcastle 85+ cohort study
- Impact of frailty on health-related quality of life 1 year after transcatheter aortic valve implantation
- Dual decline in gait speed and cognition is associated with future dementia: evidence for a phenotype
- Effect of allopurinol on phosphocreatine recovery and muscle function in older people with impaired physical function: a randomised controlled trial
- Feasibility and acceptability of the ‘Acutely Presenting Older Patient’ screener in routine emergency department care
- Quinine exposure and the risk of acute kidney injury: a population-based observational study of older people
- Do home modifications reduce care home admissions for older people? A matched control evaluation of the Care & Repair Cymru service in Wales
- The role of illness acuity on the association between frailty and mortality in emergency department patients referred to internal medicine
- A qualitative evaluation of the effect of a longitudinal dementia education programme on healthcare student knowledge and attitudes
- The Pathfields Tool: a frailty case-finding tool using primary care IT—implications for population health management
- Faecal microbiota transplantation as a home therapy to frail older people
- Escalating the dose and downgrading the rhythm: the combination of prescribed and non-prescribed medications resulting in an abnormal heart rhythm