Age and Ageing Volume 50, Issue 1, January 2021

COVID-19 section

• Rationing care in COVID-19: if we must do it, can we do better?

• Rationing care by frailty during the COVID-19 pandemic

• COVID 19: prioritise autonomy, beneficence and conversations before score-based triage

• The need for improved discharge criteria for hospitalised patients with COVID-19—implications for patients in long-term care facilities

• Care homes and COVID-19 in Hong Kong: how the lessons from SARS were used to good effect

• The impact of COVID-19 on adjusted mortality risk in care homes for older adults in Wales, UK: a retrospective population-based cohort study for mortality in 2016–2020

• A fuller picture of COVID-19 prognosis: the added value of vulnerability measures to predict mortality in hospitalised older adults

• Probable delirium is a presenting symptom of COVID-19 in frail, older adults: a cohort study of 322 hospitalised and 535 community-based older adults

• Asymptomatic carriage rates and case fatality of SARS-CoV-2 infection in residents and staff in Irish nursing homes

• The impact of health QR code system on older people in China during the COVID-19 outbreak

Editorials

• Geriatric medicine in China: an old but emerging subspecialty

• Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability. Blood pressure management in older people

Commentaries

• Moving beyond promoting ‘Happiness’ in gerontology interventions

• Attracting, recruiting and retaining nurses and care workers working in care homes: the need for a nuanced understanding informed by evidence and theory

• Medical assistance in dying and older persons in Belgium: trends, emerging issues and challenges

Guideline

• Mild Cognitive Impairment: the Manchester consensus

Systematic Reviews

• Poor oral hygiene, oral microorganisms and aspiration pneumonia risk in older people in residential aged care: a systematic review

• The clinical usefulness of muscle mass and strength measures in older people: a systematic review

• Prevalence of frailty in 62 countries across the world: a systematic review and meta-analysis of population-level studies

• Screening instruments for cognitive impairment in older patients in the Emergency Department: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Review

• Anaemia and physical and mental health in the very old: An individual participant data meta-analysis of four longitudinal studies of ageing

Research Papers

• Utilisation of general practice health assessments around an aged care assessment is associated with lower mortality risk in older Australians

• Effect of intravenous iron on functional outcomes in hip fracture: a randomised controlled trial

• Functional and cognitive decline in older delirious adults after an emergency department visit

• Importance of previous hospital stays on the risk of hospital re-admission in older adults: a real-life analysis of the PAERPA study population

• Editor's Choice: Frailty status predicts futility of cardiopulmonary resuscitation in older adults

• Changes in muscle strength and physical function in older patients during and after hospitalisation: a prospective repeated-measures cohort study

• Earlier life leisure-time physical activity in relation to age-related frailty syndrome

• Cognitive health expectancies of cardiovascular risk factors for cognitive decline and dementia

• Linkage of national health and social care data: a cross-sectional study of multimorbidity and social care use in people aged over 65 years in Scotland

• The burden of psychotropic and anticholinergic medicines use in care homes: population-based analysis in 147 care homes

• The effect of multimorbidity on functional limitations and depression amongst middle-aged and older population in China: a nationwide longitudinal study

• Vitamin D deficiency is associated with orthostatic hypotension in older men: a cross-sectional analysis from the British Regional Heart Study

• Neurodegenerative disease is associated with increased incidence of epilepsy: a population based study of older adults

• General and central obesity operate differently as predictors of falls requiring medical care in older women: a population-based cohort study in Spain

• Is there a dose–response relationship between musical instrument playing and later-life cognition? A cohort study using EPIC-Norfolk data

Qualitative Papers

• Understanding consumer perceptions of frailty screening to inform knowledge translation and health service improvements

• Understanding and identifying ways to improve hospital-based cancer care and treatment for people with dementia: an ethnographic study

Short Reports

• Does the public feel prepared to be substitute decision-makers? Gaps in preparedness and support for a high school curriculum: a national survey

• Xerostomia and polypharmacy among dependent older New Zealanders: a national survey

• Epidemiology and outcome of older patients presenting with dyspnoea to emergency departments

• Social isolation and loneliness as related to progression and reversion of frailty in the Survey of Health Aging Retirement in Europe (SHARE)

Case Report

• Strangled by Dr Strangelove? Anarchic hand following a posterior cerebral artery territory ischemic stroke

Clinical Reminders

• Conservative management and healing of oesophageal perforation in a frail old woman

• Cephalosporin-related neurotoxicity

Letter to the Editor

• British Geriatrics Society position statement: older patients undergoing emergency laparotomy