The latest issue of Age and Ageing includes cutting edge international research and expert commentary on healthcare for older adults academic.oup.com/ageing/issue/5…

Editor’s view: an overview of the Feb issue of the journal, giving you a digest of the month's most impactful research and commentary in older people's healthcare academic.oup.com/ageing/article…

Dunhill Medical Trust have a vacancy on the Research Grants Committee and would particularly welcome applications from clinician researchers dunhillmedical.org.uk/about-us/vacan… The Dunhill Medical Trust

Great to see this published! Here is a link to the full paper: Virtual wards for people with frailty: what works, for whom, how and why—a rapid realist review academic.oup.com/ageing/article… NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) West

New editorial: Anita O'Donovan Age_and_Ageing
Breaking bad barriers: engaging older adults in #cancer research
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'Extrapolation of findings from younger, fitter populations is disappointingly well-accepted nonsense'

Well done ⁦⁦⁦Liz McGrath⁩ - another step to increasing knowledge and improving care for our older adults in the Emergency Department ⁦IAEM⁩ ⁦Irish Gerontological Society⁩ ⁦Age_and_Ageing⁩ ⁦ academic.oup.com/ageing/article…

📢New BGS Joint Position Statement📢 Important information enabling safe decisions about which patients taking anticoagulation or antiplatelet treatment need to go to hospital and receive a CT scan after sustaining a head injury via NICE guidelines rcem.ac.uk/wp-content/upl…

Thank you and goodbye #EvidentlyCochrane ! After 11 years and 700 creative, friendly and accessible blogs making evidence engaging, this fantastic project has closed. We will miss you! Bookmark this archived version; its a gold mine. web.archive.org/web/2024010905… Cochrane UK

New BGS report exposes continuing shortage of geriatricians bgs.org.uk/policy-and-med… Royal College of Physicians

Remote health monitoring smartphone app reduces emergency hospital admissions from care homes by 25% - HDR UK
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BGS report finds that short-staffing negatively affects healthcare professionals’ mental health bgs.org.uk/policy-and-med…

The latest issue of Age and Ageing journal is out now, featuring 5 clinical trials and a range of research, systematic reviews and commentary on the advancement of health care for older people academic.oup.com/ageing/issue/5…

📢JUST PUBLISHED📢 The BGS Autumn Meeting Abstracts 2023 are now live on the Age_and_Ageing website! Find out more here academic.oup.com/ageing/issue/5… #BGSconf #BGSabstracts

We are recruiting a new Editor. This offers a rare and exciting opportunity to undertake meaningful work in the advancement of geriatric medical research. Hear about current Editor Rowan Harwood 's experience in his blog: Being editor of Age and Ageing bgs.org.uk/blog/being-edi…

Congratulations to MIRA 2022 Postdoctoral Fellow Alexandra Mayhew, PhD (She/her) & Scientific Director parminder raina, awarded the British Geriatrics Society Dhole-Eddlestone Memorial Prize for most deserving medical research exploring the needs of aging adults in Age_and_Ageing.

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Alexandra Mayhew & Parminder Raina of @mcmasteru received the British Geriatrics Society Dhole-Eddlestone Memorial Prize for an Age_and_Ageing paper that used CLSA data to develop performance charts that will improve identification of low physical function in adults.

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.Alexandra Mayhew, PhD (She/her) & parminder raina of Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA), have won the British Geriatrics Society Dhole-Eddlestone Memorial Prize for an Age_and_Ageing paper that used CLSA data to develop performance charts that can help identify low physical function in adults.
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'We were thrilled to publish the paper establishing normal values for various physical performance measures when assessing older people. This is painstaking work, beautifully presented.' Rowan Harwood Editor-in-Chief Age_and_Ageing bgs.org.uk/DholeEddleston…

The World Health Organization (WHO) with Age_and_Ageing released a 'Special Issue on Measurements of #HealthyAgeing ' bringing together the work of experts from 40+ academic institutions to identify the best tools to measure what truly matters to older people. bgs.org.uk/policy-and-med…