Age and Ageing Volume 50, Issue 5, September 2021
This page gives a summary of the September 2021 issue of Age and Ageing, journal of the British Geriatrics Society, which is available in full to subscribers and BGS members. Rowan Harwood’s Editor’s View article also gives an overview of this latest issue and highlights some of the hot topics for readers.
Full Table of Contents
Age and Ageing Volume 50, Issue 5. September 2021
COVID-19
- COVID-19 testing during care home outbreaks: the more the better?
- Delirium in COVID-19: common, distressing and linked with poor outcomes. . . can we do better?
- Low hospital mobility—resurgence of an old epidemic within a new pandemic and future solutions
- COVID-19 point-of-care testing in care homes: what are the lessons for policy and practice?
- Prevalence, incidence and mortality of delirium in patients with COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis
- Are presymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infections in nursing home residents unrecognised symptomatic infections? Sequence and metadata from weekly testing in an extensive nursing home outbreak
- Is point-of-care testing feasible and safe in care homes in England? An exploratory usability and accuracy evaluation of a point-of-care polymerase chain reaction test for SARS-CoV-2
- Magnitude, change over time, demographic characteristics and geographic distribution of excess deaths among nursing home residents during the first wave of COVID-19 in France: a nationwide cohort study
- Care-home outbreaks of COVID-19 in Scotland March to May 2020: National linked data cohort analysis
New horizons
- New horizons in understanding the experience of Chinese people living with dementia: a positive psychology approach
- New horizons in falls prevention and management for older adults: a global initiative
Commentaries
- HEARTS, minds and souls—it is time for geriatricians to bring more to continence management
- Talking to multi-morbid patients about critical illness: an evolving conversation
- Appropriate deprescribing in older people: a challenging necessity
Commentary to accompany themed collection on deprescribing
Systematic reviews
- Prevalence of initial orthostatic hypotension in older adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis
- Pre-operative prognostic factors for walking capacity after surgery for lumbar spinal stenosis: a systematic review
- Duration of antibiotic treatment using procalcitonin-guided treatment algorithms in older patients: a patient-level meta-analysis from randomized controlled trials
- Efficacy of exercise-based interventions in preventing falls among community-dwelling older persons with cognitive impairment: is there enough evidence? An updated systematic review and meta-analysis
Research papers
- Frailty—a risk factor of global and domain-specific cognitive decline among a nationally representative sample of community-dwelling older adult U.S. Medicare beneficiaries
- Differential risk of falls associated with pain medication among community-dwelling older adults by cognitive status
- Association between everyday walking activity, objective and perceived risk of falling in older adults
- The relationship between frailty and delirium: insights from the 2017 Delirium Day study
- Hospital admission as a deprescribing triage point for patients discharged to Residential Aged Care Facilities
- Recent trends of invasive mechanical ventilation in older adults: a nationwide population-based study
- Dynapenia, abdominal obesity or both: which accelerates the gait speed decline most?
- Neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio predicts delirium after stroke
- The rate by which mortality increase with age is the same for those who experienced chronic disease as for the general population
- Predicting readmission and death after hospital discharge: a comparison of conventional frailty measurement with an electronic health record-based score
- Factors associated with initiation of bone-health medication among older adults in primary care in Ireland
- Association of life satisfaction with disability-free survival: role of chronic diseases and healthy lifestyle
- Individual changes in anthropometric measures after age 60 years: a 15-year longitudinal population-based study
- Hospitalisation without delirium is not associated with cognitive decline in a population-based sample of older people—results from a nested, longitudinal cohort study
- Longitudinal trajectories of physical functioning among Chinese older adults: the role of depressive symptoms, cognitive functioning and subjective memory
- Cause-specific mortality prediction in older residents of São Paulo, Brazil: a machine learning approach
- EDITOR'S CHOICE: The effect of opioids on the cognitive function of older adults: results from the Personality and Total Health through life study
- Neuropsychiatric symptoms in early stage of Alzheimer’s and non-Alzheimer’s dementia, and the risk of progression to severe dementia
- Frailty is associated with long-term outcome in patients with sepsis who are over 80 years old: results from an observational study in 241 European ICUs
- Measuring the impact of a Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Community Respiratory Programme on emergency admissions to hospital: a controlled interrupted time series analysis
- Enrolment of older adults with cancer in early phase clinical trials—an observational study on the experience in the north west of England
- Mortality in hip fracture patients after implementation of a nurse practitioner-led orthogeriatric care program: results of a 1-year follow-up
- Acceptance and commitment therapy for late-life treatment-resistant generalised anxiety disorder: a feasibility study
- Developing a UK sarcopenia registry: recruitment and baseline characteristics of the SarcNet pilot
- Preoperative comprehensive geriatric assessment and optimisation prior to elective arterial vascular surgery: a health economic analysis
- Hospital frailty risk score and adverse health outcomes: evidence from longitudinal record linkage cardiac data
- Frailty is an outcome predictor in patients with acute ischemic stroke receiving endovascular treatment
Qualitative papers
- Examining the role of specialist palliative care in geriatric care to inform collaborations: a survey on the knowledge, practice and attitudes of geriatricians in providing palliative care
- The meaning of confidence from the perspective of older people living with frailty: a conceptual void within intermediate care services
- Perspectives on ageing: a qualitative study of the expectations, priorities, needs and values of older people from two Canadian provinces
- How do people living with dementia perceive eating and drinking difficulties? A qualitative study
Short reports
- Changes in social, psychological and physical well-being in the last 5 years of life of older people with cancer: a longitudinal study
- Feasibility of patient-reported outcome research in acute geriatric medicine: an approach to the ‘post-hospital syndrome’
- Safety of oesophagogastroduodenoscopy in a nonagenarian population
- Burden of cardiovascular diseases in older adults using aged care services
- Learning from a successful process evaluation in care homes
- Is Pathfinder a safe alternative to the emergency department for older patients? An observational analysis