July 2020 issue of Age and Ageing journal is out now

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
• Delirium prevention
• Appetite and anorexia
• Emergency laparotomy
• Frailty in stroke and health policy

There are a number of free to view and Open Access articles in this issue that can be read and downloaded without a subscription:

• Delirium: a missing piece in the COVID-19 pandemic puzzle
• Frailty in the face of COVID-19
• COVID-19 in older people: a rapid clinical review
• COVID-19 outbreak: organisation of a geriatric assessment and coordination unit. A French example
• Atypical presentation of COVID-19 in a frail older person
• Can the COVID-19 crisis strengthen our treatment escalation planning and resuscitation decision making?
• Does frailty predict post stroke mortality?
• Reducing medication errors and transitions of care
• The association of delirium severity with patient and health system outcomes in hospitalised patients: a systematic review
• Successful care transitions for older people: a systematic review and meta-analysis of the effects of interventions that support medication continuity
• A multicentre, pragmatic, cluster randomised, controlled feasibility trial of the POD system of care
• Investigation of ward fidelity to a multicomponent delirium prevention intervention during a multicentre, pragmatic, cluster randomised, controlled feasibility trial
• Older patients undergoing emergency laparotomy: observations from the National Emergency Laparotomy Audit (NELA) years 1–4
• What is important to people with dementia living at home? A set of core outcome items for use in the evaluation of non-pharmacological community-based health and social care interventions