Undergraduate Geriatric Medical Education, a collection of 15 articles exploring best practice in geriatrics education and how careers in geriatrics could be made more appealing to improve recruitment and retention. Curated by Andy Teodorczuk academic.oup.com/ageing/pages/u… Oxford Academic

BGS is delighted to announce the appointment of Professor Roy Soiza as the new Editor-in-Chief of Age_and_Ageing. Professor Soiza is a Consultant Geriatrician at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary NHS Grampian and holds an Honorary Chair at University of Aberdeen. bgs.org.uk/policy-and-med…

Professor Rowan Harwood has steered Age_and_Ageing via Oxford Academic expertly over the last 6 years. He has developed the impact & quality of the journal’s output with its highest Impact Factor of 12.7 & highest usage rate of 2.5million downloads per year. bgs.org.uk/policy-and-med…

Congratulations Roy! We are delighted for your appointment to Editor of Age and Ageing and for the next chapter for our journal. Huge thanks to Rowan Harwood for his major contributions over his 6-yr term as Editor. We will miss you. OUP Medicine

New research publication... How can virtual wards help people with frailty to avoid hospital?

You can read our plain language summary:
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And the full paper published in Age & Ageing:
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Thank you Maggie Westby and team!

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… @CochraneUK

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…