Age and Ageing

Article	Citations
Prevalence of frailty in 62 countries across the world: a systematic review and meta-analysis of population-level studies	217
Ageism and COVID-19: what does our society’s response say about us?	207
Efficacy and safety of COVID-19 vaccines in older people	201
COVID-19 in older people: a rapid clinical review	151
Commentary: COVID in care homes—challenges and dilemmas in healthcare delivery	132
The COVID-19 rehabilitation pandemic	113
Delirium: a missing piece in the COVID-19 pandemic puzzle	101
The consistent burden in published estimates of delirium occurrence in medical inpatients over four decades: a systematic review and meta-analysis study	95
Association of frailty with mortality in older inpatients with Covid-19: a cohort study	89
Age and frailty are independently associated with increased COVID-19 mortality and increased care needs in survivors: results of an international multi-centre study	88
World guidelines for falls prevention and management for older adults: a global initiative	87
Research with older people in a world with COVID-19: identification of current and future priorities, challenges and opportunities	74
Diagnostic accuracy of the 4AT for delirium detection in older adults: systematic review and meta-analysis	73
Atypical presentation of COVID-19 in a frail older person	68
The role of illness acuity on the association between frailty and mortality in emergency department patients referred to internal medicine	66
Efficacy and safety of empagliflozin in older patients in the EMPA-REG OUTCOME® trial	66
Comparing associations between frailty and mortality in hospitalised older adults with or without COVID-19 infection: a retrospective observational study using electronic health records	64
STOPPFall (Screening Tool of Older Persons Prescriptions in older adults with high fall risk): a Delphi study by the EuGMS Task and Finish Group on Fall-Risk-Increasing Drugs	63
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	62
Frailty in the face of COVID-19	60
Frailty is associated with in-hospital mortality in older hospitalised COVID-19 patients in the Netherlands: the COVID-OLD study	59
The impact of delirium on outcomes for older adults hospitalised with COVID-19	59
Effect of the COVID-19 lockdown on disease recognition and utilisation of healthcare services in the older population in Germany: a cross-sectional study	58
Successful care transitions for older people: a systematic review and meta-analysis of the effects of interventions that support medication continuity	55
Mild Cognitive Impairment: the Manchester consensus	55

Virtual geriatric clinics and the COVID-19 catalyst: a rapid review	53
What is the prevalence of loneliness amongst older people living in residential and nursing care homes? A systematic review and meta-analysis	53
Loneliness as a mediator of the impact of social isolation on cognitive functioning of Chinese older adults	53
Prevention of adverse drug reactions in hospitalized older patients with multi-morbidity and polypharmacy: the SENATOR* randomized controlled clinical trial	50
A classification tree to assist with routine scoring of the Clinical Frailty Scale	49
New horizons in appetite and the anorexia of ageing	48
Estimated societal costs of stroke in the UK based on a discrete event simulation	48
Deprescribing in older people approaching end-of-life: development and validation of STOPPFrail version 2	47
Prevalence, incidence and mortality of delirium in patients with COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis	45
Clinical profile and predictors of in-hospital mortality among older patients hospitalised for COVID-19	45
The future incidence, prevalence and costs of stroke in the UK	44
‘Getting back to normality seems as big of a step as going into lockdown’: the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on people with early to middle stage dementia	42
Frailty, a multisystem ageing syndrome	42
The association of grip strength with health outcomes does not differ if grip strength is used in absolute or relative terms: a prospective cohort study	41
Life in lockdown: a telephone survey to investigate the impact of COVID-19 lockdown measures on the lives of older people (≥75 years)	40
Projections of care for older people with dementia in England: 2015 to 2040	40
Anticholinergic drugs and incident dementia, mild cognitive impairment and cognitive decline: a meta-analysis	40
Older patients undergoing emergency laparotomy: observations from the National Emergency Laparotomy Audit (NELA) years 1–4	39
The prevalence and impact of potentially inappropriate prescribing among older persons in primary care settings: multilevel meta-analysis	39
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	38
Clinical frailty independently predicts early mortality after ischaemic stroke	38
Abdominal obesity, body mass index and the risk of frailty in community-dwelling older adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis	38
Blood pressure in frail older adults: associations with cardiovascular outcomes and all-cause mortality	37
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	37
New horizons in falls prevention and management for older adults: a global initiative	36
Poor oral hygiene, oral microorganisms and aspiration pneumonia risk in older people in residential aged care: a systematic review	35
Social isolation, loneliness and functional disability in Chinese older women and men: a longitudinal study	34
Changes in psychological distress before and during the COVID-19 pandemic among older adults: the contribution of frailty transitions and multimorbidity	34
SEeking AnsweRs for Care Homes during the COVID-19 pandemic (COVID SEARCH)	34
External validation of the electronic Frailty Index using the population of Wales within the Secure Anonymised Information Linkage Databank	34
COVID-19 infection and attributable mortality in UK care homes: cohort study using active surveillance and electronic records (March–June 2020)	33
Effects of dance on cognitive function in older adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis	33
Development of a hospital deprescribing implementation framework: A focus group study with geriatricians and pharmacists	32
New horizons in rib fracture management in the older adult	32
Morbidity and mortality among older people admitted to nursing home	32
Recurrent delirium over 12 months predicts dementia: results of the Delirium and Cognitive Impact in Dementia (DECIDE) study	31
Age and the distribution of major injury across a national trauma system	31
Protein intake and transitions between frailty states and to death in very old adults: the Newcastle 85+ study	31
Informal caregiving for dementia patients: the contribution of patient characteristics and behaviours to caregiver burden	30
Atrial fibrillation and oral anticoagulation in older people with frailty: a nationwide primary care electronic health records cohort study	30
New Horizons in the use of routine data for ageing research	30
Does vascular endothelial dysfunction play a role in physical frailty and sarcopenia? A systematic review	29
Weight-adjusted waist index reflects fat and muscle mass in the opposite direction in older adults	29
What is the relationship between validated frailty scores and mortality for adults with COVID-19 in acute hospital care? A systematic review	29
Psychological correlates of multimorbidity and disability accumulation in older adults	28
Dual decline in gait speed and cognition is associated with future dementia: evidence for a phenotype	27
Rationing care by frailty during the COVID-19 pandemic	27
Linking early life risk factors to frailty in old age: evidence from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study	27
The effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of assistive technology and telecare for independent living in dementia: a randomised controlled trial	27
Comparison between multicomponent and simultaneous dual-task exercise interventions in long-term nursing home residents: the Ageing-ONDUAL-TASK randomized controlled study	27

Investigation of a possible association of potentially inappropriate medication for older adults and frailty in a prospective cohort study from Germany	26
Factors associated with virtual care access in older adults: a cross-sectional study	26
Asymptomatic carriage rates and case fatality of SARS-CoV-2 infection in residents and staff in Irish nursing homes	26
Social isolation and loneliness as related to progression and reversion of frailty in the Survey of Health Aging Retirement in Europe (SHARE)	26
Care homes and COVID-19 in Hong Kong: how the lessons from SARS were used to good effect	26
Resistance exercise as a treatment for sarcopenia: prescription and delivery	26
Mortality risk associated with combinations of loneliness and social isolation. Findings from The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA)	25
In-hospital adverse drug reactions in older adults; prevalence, presentation and associated drugs—a systematic review and meta-analysis	25
The demography and characteristics of SARS-CoV-2 seropositive residents and staff of nursing homes for older adults in the Community of Madrid: the SeroSOS study	25
The effect of multimorbidity on functional limitations and depression amongst middle-aged and older population in China: a nationwide longitudinal study	25
Interventions to reduce falls in hospitals: a systematic review and meta-analysis	24
The clinical usefulness of muscle mass and strength measures in older people: a systematic review	24
Incidence, determinants and consequences of delirium in older patients after transcatheter aortic valve implantation	24
The Clinical Frailty Scale predicts adverse outcome in older people admitted to a UK major trauma centre	24
A fuller picture of COVID-19 prognosis: the added value of vulnerability measures to predict mortality in hospitalised older adults	24
‘It’s a tough decision’: a qualitative study of proxy decision-making for research involving adults who lack capacity to consent in UK	23
Scoping study of definitions of social participation: update and co-construction of an interdisciplinary consensual definition	23
The impact of health QR code system on older people in China during the COVID-19 outbreak	23
Discharge after hip fracture surgery by mobilisation timing: secondary analysis of the UK National Hip Fracture Database	23
Frailty status predicts futility of cardiopulmonary resuscitation in older adults	23
Multimorbidity patterns and risk of frailty in older community-dwelling adults: a population-based cohort study	22
Bidirectional relations between cognitive function and oral health in ageing persons: a longitudinal cohort study	22
Sleep quality and cognitive impairment in older Chinese: Guangzhou Biobank Cohort Study	22
Venous thromboembolic events in patients with COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis	22
Potentially inappropriate prescribing in dementia, multi-morbidity and incidence of adverse health outcomes	22
Comparing perspectives of family caregivers and healthcare professionals regarding caregiver burden in dementia care: results of a mixed methods study in a rural setting	22
New horizons in supporting older people's health and wellbeing: is social prescribing a way forward?	21
Sarcopenia definition, diagnosis and treatment: consensus is growing	21
Effectiveness of virtual reality technology on functional mobility of older adults: systematic review and meta-analysis	21
Frailty among middle-aged and older Canadians: population norms for the frailty index using the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging	21
Distribution of the National Early Warning Score (NEWS) in care home residents	20
Diabetes duration and the risk of dementia: a cohort study based on German health claims data	20
The effect of ageing on presentation, management and outcomes in degenerative cervical myelopathy: a systematic review	20
Changes in health and functioning of care home residents over two decades: what can we learn from population-based studies?	20
External validation of the Hospital Frailty Risk Score in France	19
The association of weight change and all-cause mortality in older adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis	19
Associations of 4AT with mobility, length of stay and mortality in hospital and discharge destination among patients admitted with hip fractures	19
Perceptions, knowledge and attitudes about COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy in older Portuguese adults	19
Is phenotypical prefrailty all the same? A longitudinal investigation of two prefrailty subtypes in TILDA	19
The association of delirium severity with patient and health system outcomes in hospitalised patients: a systematic review	19
Burnout in UK care home staff and its effect on staff turnover: MARQUE English national care home longitudinal survey	19
Medication-related harm: a geriatric syndrome	19
Age-friendliness of living environments from the older person’s viewpoint: development of the Age-Friendly Environment Assessment Tool	18
Relationship between sarcopenia and orthostatic hypotension	18
Use of medication among nursing home residents: a Danish drug utilisation study	18
New horizons in deprescribing for older people	18
Dynapenia, abdominal obesity or both: which accelerates the gait speed decline most?	18
Trajectories of depressive symptoms and subsequent cognitive decline in older adults: a pooled analysis of two longitudinal cohorts	18
Effectiveness of a community-based self-care promoting program for community-dwelling older adults: a randomized controlled trial	18
‘We have become prisoners of our own age’: from a continuing care retirement community to a total institution in the midst of the COVID-19 outbreak	18
Moderate physical activity associated with a higher naïve/memory T-cell ratio in healthy old individuals: potential role of IL15	17
Is comprehensive geriatric assessment hospital at home a cost-effective alternative to hospital admission for older people?	17
How quality improvement collaboratives work to improve healthcare in care homes: a realist evaluation	17
Computer-generated STOPP/START recommendations for hospitalised older adults: evaluation of the relationship between clinical relevance and rate of implementation in the SENATOR trial	17
Epidemiology of COVID-19 in older persons, Wuhan, China	17
Telomere length and its relationships with lifestyle and behavioural factors: variations by sex and race/ethnicity	17
‘I’ve never drunk very much water and I still don’t, and I see no reason to do so’: a qualitative study of the views of community-dwelling older people and carers on hydration in later life	17
A comparison of two national frailty scoring systems	16
Factors associated with self- and informant ratings of quality of life, well-being and life satisfaction in people with mild-to-moderate dementia: results from the Improving the experience of Dementia	16
Neutrophil-to-lymphocyte ratio predicts delirium after stroke	16
The impact of risk factors for dementia in China	16
Atypical symptoms, SARS-CoV-2 test results and immunisation rates in 456 residents from eight nursing homes facing a COVID-19 outbreak	16
Effects of an intervention to reduce fear of falling and increase physical activity during hip and pelvic fracture rehabilitation	16
Impact of COVID-19 restrictions on carers of persons with dementia in the UK: a qualitative study	16
Neighbourhood walkability and physical activity: moderating role of a physical activity intervention in overweight and obese older adults with metabolic syndrome	16
Acceptance and commitment therapy for late-life treatment-resistant generalised anxiety disorder: a feasibility study	15
Associations between inflammation, cardiovascular biomarkers and incident frailty: the British Regional Heart Study	15
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	15
Association between kidney function and incidence of dementia: 10-year follow-up of the Whitehall II cohort study	15
Prevalence and implications of frailty in acute stroke: systematic review & meta-analysis	15
The work of older people and their informal caregivers in managing an acute health event in a hospital at home or hospital inpatient setting	15
Effects of gait adaptability training on falls and fall-related fractures in older adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis	15
COVID-19 testing in English care homes and implications for staff and residents	15
Changes in muscle strength and physical function in older patients during and after hospitalisation: a prospective repeated-measures cohort study	15
Care-home outbreaks of COVID-19 in Scotland March to May 2020: National linked data cohort analysis	15
Attracting, recruiting and retaining nurses and care workers working in care homes: the need for a nuanced understanding informed by evidence and theory	15
Cognitive training interventions and depression in mild cognitive impairment and dementia: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials	15
A practitioner behaviour change intervention for deprescribing in the hospital setting	15
New versus old guidelines for sarcopenia classification: What is the impact on prevalence and health outcomes?	14
A decade of geriatric traumatic brain injuries in Finland: population-based trends	14

Impact of COVID-19 on care-home mortality and life expectancy in Scotland	14
Enhanced lateral flow testing strategies in care homes are associated with poor adherence and were insufficient to prevent COVID-19 outbreaks: results from a mixed methods implementation study	14
Retinal photograph-based deep learning predicts biological age, and stratifies morbidity and mortality risk	14
Why do older workers with chronic health conditions prefer to retire early?	14
Reasons for discontinuing oral anticoagulation therapy for atrial fibrillation: a systematic review	14
Are large simple trials for dementia prevention possible?	14
How do we define and measure sarcopenia? A meta-analysis of observational studies	14
Rapid review of decision-making for place of care and death in older people: lessons for COVID-19	14
Frailty is an outcome predictor in patients with acute ischemic stroke receiving endovascular treatment	14
We’re all different and we’re the same: the story of the European nursing home resident	14
Long-term effect of a 24-week multicomponent intervention on physical performance and frailty in community-dwelling older adults	14
Why is living alone in older age related to increased mortality risk? A longitudinal cohort study	13
Delirium and post-discharge dementia: results from a cohort of older adults without baseline cognitive impairment	13
Comprehensive geriatric assessment in older people: an umbrella review of health outcomes	13
Post-operative delirium associated with metabolic alterations following hemi-arthroplasty in older patients	13
Alcohol consumption in later life and reaching longevity: the Netherlands Cohort Study	13
New Horizons in the impact of frailty on pharmacokinetics: latest developments	13
Interventions to ameliorate reductions in muscle quantity and function in hospitalised older adults: a systematic review towards acute sarcopenia treatment	13
Feasibility and acceptability of the ‘Acutely Presenting Older Patient’ screener in routine emergency department care	13
Impact of place of residence, frailty and other factors on rehabilitation outcomes post hip fracture	13
A rapid point-of-care ultrasound marker for muscle mass and muscle strength in older adults	13
Symptoms of mood disorders in family carers of older people with dementia who experience caregiver burden: a network approach	13
Preoperative comprehensive geriatric assessment and optimisation prior to elective arterial vascular surgery: a health economic analysis	13
Risk of progression to diabetes and mortality in older people with prediabetes: The English longitudinal study on ageing	13
The experience of uncertainty for patients, families and healthcare providers in post-stroke palliative and end-of-life care: a qualitative meta-synthesis	13
The COVID rehabilitation paradox: why we need to protect and develop geriatric rehabilitation services in the face of the pandemic	13
COVID-19 outbreak: organisation of a geriatric assessment and coordination unit. A French example	13
Clinical trials in older people	13
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 stud	12
Individualisation of glycaemic management in older people with type 2 diabetes: a systematic review of clinical practice guidelines recommendations	12
The Hospital Frailty Risk Score—outcomes in specialised services	12
Current characteristics and early functional outcome of older stroke patients: a population-based study (Dijon Stroke Registry)	12
Protective or harmful? A qualitative exploration of older people’s perceptions of worries about falling	12
A modelling-based economic evaluation of primary-care-based fall-risk screening followed by fall-prevention intervention: a cohort-based Markov model stratified by older age groups	12
Temporal trends in handgrip strength for older Japanese adults between 1998 and 2017	12
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	12
Understanding and identifying ways to improve hospital-based cancer care and treatment for people with dementia: an ethnographic study	12
Contextual factors influencing complex intervention research processes in care homes: a systematic review and framework synthesis	12
Retinal age gap as a predictive biomarker of future risk of Parkinson’s disease	12
The My Active and Healthy Aging ICT platform prevents quality of life decline in older adults: a randomised controlled study	12
The disability process: is there a place for frailty?	11
Neuropsychiatric symptoms in early stage of Alzheimer’s and non-Alzheimer’s dementia, and the risk of progression to severe dementia	11
Barriers and facilitators to virtual care in a geriatric medicine clinic: a semi-structured interview study of patient, caregiver and healthcare provider perspectives	11
Association of rhythm control with incident dementia among patients with atrial fibrillation: a nationwide population-based cohort study	11
Informant-based hearing difficulties and the risk for mild cognitive impairment and dementia	11
Barriers and potential solutions in the recruitment and retention of older patients in clinical trials—lessons learned from six large multicentre randomized controlled trials	11
Prevalence and associations of orofacial pain and oral health factors in nursing home residents with and without dementia	11
Impact of frailty on health-related quality of life 1 year after transcatheter aortic valve implantation	11
Diagnostic accuracy of dementia screening tools in the Chinese population: a systematic review and meta-analysis of 167 diagnostic studies	11
Impact of pain on reactive balance and falls in community-dwelling older adults: a prospective cohort study	11
Potentially serious alcohol–medication interactions and falls in community-dwelling older adults: a prospective cohort study	11
Xerostomia and polypharmacy among dependent older New Zealanders: a national survey	11
Effect of various exercises on frailty among older adults with subjective cognitive concerns: a randomised controlled trial	11
The role of attentional focus on walking efficiency among older fallers and non-fallers	11
Dynamic statistical model for predicting the risk of death among older Chinese people, using longitudinal repeated measures of the frailty index: a prospective cohort study	11
Transitions between frailty states in the very old: the influence of socioeconomic status and multi-morbidity in the Newcastle 85+ cohort study	11
Association between multimorbidity and hospitalization in older adults: systematic review and meta-analysis	11
The nurse-coordinated cardiac care bridge transitional care programme: a randomised clinical trial	11
Frailty, hospital use and mortality in the older population: findings from the Newcastle 85+ study	11
Follow-up of a Wuqinxi exercise at home programme to reduce pain and improve function for knee osteoarthritis in older people: a randomised controlled trial	11
Exploring the reciprocal relationship between cognitive function and edentulism among middle-aged and older adults in China	11
Moving more, ageing happy: findings from six low- and middle-income countries	11
Faecal microbiota transplantation as a home therapy to frail older people	11
Understanding consumer perceptions of frailty screening to inform knowledge translation and health service improvements	11
The need for improved discharge criteria for hospitalised patients with COVID-19—implications for patients in long-term care facilities	11
Long-term conditions, multimorbidity, lifestyle factors and change in grip strength over 9 years of follow-up: Findings from 44,315 UK biobank participants	11
Are we allowed to visit now? Concerns and issues surrounding vaccination and infection risks in UK care homes during COVID-19	10
Sexual satisfaction of middle-aged and older adults: longitudinal findings from a nationally representative sample	10
Time-efficient physical activity interventions to reduce blood pressure in older adults: a randomised controlled trial	10
Sarcopenia is associated with 3-month and 1-year mortality in geriatric rehabilitation inpatients: RESORT	10
Apolipoprotein ε4 allele is associated with frailty syndrome: results from the hellenic longitudinal investigation of ageing and diet study	10
Effects of radial extracorporeal shockwave therapy on spasticity of upper-limb agonist/antagonist muscles in patients affected by stroke: a randomized, single-blind clinical trial	10
A software to prevent delirium in hospitalised older adults: development and feasibility assessment	10
The burden of psychotropic and anticholinergic medicines use in care homes: population-based analysis in 147 care homes	10
The UN Decade of healthy ageing: strengthening measurement for monitoring health and wellbeing of older people	10
Clinical clustering of eight orthostatic haemodynamic patterns in The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA)	10
Successful ageing from old to very old: a longitudinal study of 12,432 women from Australia	10
Delirium at the end of life	10
Barriers and facilitators to nursing delirium screening in older emergency patients: a qualitative study using the theoretical domains framework	10
A posture and mobility training package for care home staff: results of a cluster randomised controlled feasibility trial (the PATCH trial)	10
Medical assistance in dying and older persons in Belgium: trends, emerging issues and challenges	10
Cholesterol profiles and incident cognitive decline among older adults: the Shanghai Aging Study	10
Hospital frailty risk score and adverse health outcomes: evidence from longitudinal record linkage cardiac data	10
Relationship between Fried’s frailty phenotype and oral frailty in long-term care residents	10
European Working Group on Sarcopenia in Older People 2010 (EWGSOP1) and 2019 (EWGSOP2) criteria or slowness: which is the best predictor of mortality risk in older adults?	10
Rationing care in COVID-19: if we must do it, can we do better?	10
Factors associated with non-prescription of oral anticoagulant treatment in non-valvular atrial fibrillation patients with dementia: a CPRD–HES study	10
Comprehensive geriatric assessment in the emergency department	10
Older people and epidemics: a call for empathy	10
Frailty and stroke thrombectomy outcomes—an observational cohort study	9
Prevalence, management and outcomes of unrecognized delirium in a National Sample of 1,493 older emergency department patients: how many were sent home and what happened to them?	9
A qualitative evaluation of the effect of a longitudinal dementia education programme on healthcare student knowledge and attitudes	9
Positive scores on the 4AT delirium assessment tool at hospital admission are linked to mortality, length of stay and home time: two-centre study of 82,770 emergency admissions	9
Mortality in hip fracture patients after implementation of a nurse practitioner-led orthogeriatric care program: results of a 1-year follow-up	9
Individual changes in anthropometric measures after age 60 years: a 15-year longitudinal population-based study	9
How do people living with dementia perceive eating and drinking difficulties? A qualitative study	9
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	9
Development and evaluation of an evidence-based, theory-grounded online Clinical Frailty Scale tutorial	9
Does identifying frailty from ICD-10 coded data on hospital admission improve prediction of adverse outcomes in older surgical patients? A population-based study	9
From Warkworth House to the 21st century care homes: progress marked by persistent challenges	9
Age and clinical outcomes after hip fracture surgery: do octogenarian, nonagenarian and centenarian classifications matter?	9
Patient-related risk factors for in-hospital functional decline in older adults: A systematic review and meta-analysis	9
Development and validation of a model for predicting mortality in patients with hip fracture	9
Prevention and infection control of COVID-19 in nursing homes: experience from China	9
Association between different methods of assessing blood pressure variability and incident cardiovascular disease, cardiovascular mortality and all-cause mortality: a systematic review	9
COVID-19 point-of-care testing in care homes: what are the lessons for policy and practice?	9
New horizons in life extension, healthspan extension and exceptional longevity	9
Age-related hearing loss and provider-patient communication across primary and secondary care settings: a cross-sectional study	9
Association of plasma FGF21 levels with muscle mass and muscle strength in a national multicentre cohort study: Korean Frailty and Aging Cohort Study	9
Non-pharmacological interventions for fatigue in older adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis	9
Pathways to help-seeking for sexual difficulties in older adults: qualitative findings from the third National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles (Natsal-3)	9
The association between the inflammatory response following surgery and post-operative delirium in older oncological patients: a prospective cohort study	9
Motoric cognitive risk syndrome and incident dementia in older adults from the Québec NuAge cohort	9
Massive Open Online Courses: enhancing caregiver education and support about dementia care towards and at end of life	8
Influence of the number and severity of comorbidities in the course of acute non-specific low back pain in older adults: longitudinal results from the Back Complaints in the Elders (BACE-Brazil)	8
Aducanumab and the certainty of evidence	8
National early warning scores in care homes: do policy imperatives reflect a genuine need?	8
New horizons: managing antithrombotic dilemmas in patients with cerebral amyloid angiopathy	8
68 Urinary Catheterisation in Trauma and Orthopaedic Patients	8
Use of a digital delirium pathway and quality improvement to improve delirium detection in the emergency department and outcomes in an acute hospital	8
Potentially inappropriate medication use in older adults with mild-moderate Alzheimer’s disease: prevalence and associations with adverse events	8
Oropharyngeal dysphagia in older patients with hip fracture	8
The ‘Wish to Die’ in later life: prevalence, longitudinal course and mortality. Data from TILDA	8
Patterns of multimorbidity trajectories and their correlates among Korean older adults	8
Attention to age: similar dosing regimens lead to different vancomycin levels among older and younger patients	8
‘What matters to you?’ Health outcome prioritisation in treatment decision-making for older patients	8
Calculating the carbon footprint of a Geriatric Medicine clinic before and after COVID-19	8
Effect of an integrated care model for pre-frail and frail older people living in community	8
Is Pathfinder a safe alternative to the emergency department for older patients? An observational analysis	8
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	8
Frailty trajectories in three longitudinal studies of aging: Is the level or the rate of change more predictive of mortality?	8
Consumption of dietary nuts in midlife and risk of cognitive impairment in late-life: the Singapore Chinese Health Study	8
Longitudinal associations between falls and future risk of cognitive decline, the Motoric Cognitive Risk syndrome and dementia: the Einstein Ageing Study	8
Short physical performance battery as a practical tool to assess mortality risk in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease	8
The relationship between frailty and delirium: insights from the 2017 Delirium Day study	8
A multicentre, pragmatic, cluster randomised, controlled feasibility trial of the POD system of care	8
Higher dementia incidence in older adults with type 2 diabetes and large reduction in HbA1c	8
Factors associated with initiation of bone-health medication among older adults in primary care in Ireland	8
Can the COVID-19 crisis strengthen our treatment escalation planning and resuscitation decision making?	8
Screening instruments for cognitive impairment in older patients in the Emergency Department: a systematic review and meta-analysis	8
Discordance between dementia caregivers’ goal of care and preference for life-extending treatments	8
Geriatric medicine in China: an old but emerging subspecialty	8
Health and social care providers’ perspectives of older people’s drinking: a systematic review and thematic synthesis of qualitative studies	8
Investigation of ward fidelity to a multicomponent delirium prevention intervention during a multicentre, pragmatic, cluster randomised, controlled feasibility trial	8
The impact of pain on the course of ADL functioning in patients with dementia	8

‘The worse my hearing got, the less sociable I got’: a qualitative study of patient and professional views of the management of social isolation and hearing loss	8
Developing a virtual geriatric perioperative medicine clinic: a mixed methods healthcare improvement study	8
Active management of hyponatraemia and mortality in older hospitalised patients compared with younger patients: results of a prospective cohort study	7
Statin use and discontinuation in Danes age 70 and older: a nationwide drug utilisation study	7
Establishment of variation source and age-related reference interval models for 22 common biochemical analytes in older people using real-world big data mining	7
Fall prevention in older people: past, present and future	7
Seasonal pattern of single falls and recurrent falls amongst community-dwelling older adults first applying for long-term care services in Hong Kong	7
Computerised prescribing support still needs a human touch	7
Using video consultation technology between care homes and health and social care professionals: a scoping review and interview study during COVID-19 pandemic	7
Behaviour change interventions to increase physical activity in hospitalised patients: a systematic review, meta-analysis and meta-regression	7
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	7
Environmental hazards increase the fall risk among residents of long-term care facilities: a prospective study in Shanghai, China	7
Anaemia and physical and mental health in the very old: An individual participant data meta-analysis of four longitudinal studies of ageing	7
Documentation of Do-Not-Attempt-Cardiopulmonary-Resuscitation orders amid the COVID-19 pandemic	7
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	7
Do we AGREE on the targets of antihypertensive drug treatment in older adults: a systematic review of guidelines on primary prevention of cardiovascular diseases	7
Activities of daily living at hospital admission and estimated survival time of older patients	7
Acute sarcopenia changes following hospitalization: influence of pre-admission care dependency level	7
Unmet healthcare needs among middle-aged and older adults in China	7
Barriers and enablers to deprescribing in long-term care facilities: a ‘best-fit’ framework synthesis of the qualitative evidence	7
The frequency and impact of undiagnosed benign paroxysmal positional vertigo in outpatients with high falls risk	7
Assessment of coding-based frailty algorithms for long-term outcome prediction among older people in community settings: a cohort study from the Shizuoka Kokuho Database	7
COVID 19: prioritise autonomy, beneficence and conversations before score-based triage	7
A cross-sectional study assessing agreement between self-reported and general practice-recorded health conditions among community dwelling older adults	7
Patients’ preferred place of death: patients are willing to consider their preferences, but someone has to ask them	7
Inflammaging as a target for healthy ageing	7
The association between loneliness and medication use in older adults	7
Patterns of multimorbidity and their association with hospitalisation: a population-based study of older adults in urban Tanzania	7
Balance and cognitive decline in older adults in the cardiovascular health study	7
Predicting readmission and death after hospital discharge: a comparison of conventional frailty measurement with an electronic health record-based score	7
An intervention to increase physical activity in care home residents: results of a cluster-randomised, controlled feasibility trial (the REACH trial)	7
Inspiratory muscle training for improving inspiratory muscle strength and functional capacity in older adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis	7
Potentially inappropriate medications and their effect on falls during hospital admission	7
Developing a UK sarcopenia registry: recruitment and baseline characteristics of the SarcNet pilot	7
Moving beyond promoting ‘Happiness’ in gerontology interventions	7
Neurodegenerative disease is associated with increased incidence of epilepsy: a population based study of older adults	7
Quo vadis geriatric rehabilitation?	7
Alcohol and mortality in older people: understanding the J-shaped curve	6
Where next with frailty risk scores in hospital populations?	6
Implementing post-diagnostic support for people living with dementia in England: a qualitative study of barriers and strategies used to address these in practice	6
Bi-directional associations of epilepsy with dementia and Alzheimer’s disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis of longitudinal studies	6
Phenotyping nocturnal polyuria: circadian and age-related variations in diuresis rate, free water clearance and sodium clearance	6
Effect of an ongoing pharmacist service to reduce medicine-induced deterioration and adverse reactions in aged-care facilities (nursing homes): a multicentre, randomised controlled trial (the ReMInDAR	6
The impact of frailty on short-term mortality following primary total hip and knee arthroplasty due to osteoarthritis	6
A prediction model for one- and three-year mortality in dementia: results from a nationwide hospital-based cohort of 50,993 patients in the Netherlands	6
Functional objective parameters which may discriminate patients with mild cognitive impairment from cognitively healthy individuals: a systematic review and meta-analysis using an instrumented kinemat	6
Epidemiology and impact of frailty in patients with atrial fibrillation in Europe	6
Patterns of unplanned hospital admissions among people with dementia: from diagnosis to the end of life	6
‘Not safe for discharge’? Words, values, and person-centred care	6
Care home residents who die in hospital: exploring factors, processes and experiences	6
The impact of an exercise intervention on frailty levels in hospitalised older adults: secondary analysis of a randomised controlled trial	6
Effectiveness of acute geriatric unit care on functional decline, clinical and process outcomes among hospitalised older adults with acute medical complaints: a systematic review and meta-analysis	6
Prevalence of initial orthostatic hypotension in older adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis	6
What gets recorded, counts: dementia recording in primary care compared with a specialist database	6
Longitudinal trajectories of physical functioning among Chinese older adults: the role of depressive symptoms, cognitive functioning and subjective memory	6
A dose response relationship between accelerometer assessed daily steps and depressive symptoms in older adults: a two-year cohort study	6
Non-inferiority of a home-based videoconference physical training program in comparison with the same program administered face-to-face in healthy older adults: the MOTION randomised controlled trial	6
Pandemic research for older people: doing it better next time	6
Delayed health consequences of COVID-19 lockdown in an older adult	6
Positive and negative experiences and life satisfaction among spousal caregivers for frail older adults in urban China: a parallel process model	6
Mass testing after a single suspected or confirmed case of COVID-19 in London care homes, April–May 2020: implications for policy and practice	6
Problems faced by people living at home with dementia and incontinence: causes, consequences and potential solutions	6
Hospital nurses’ management of agitation in older cognitively impaired patients: do they recognise pain-related agitation?	6
Combination non-pharmacologic intervention for orthostatic hypotension in older people: a phase 2 study	6
Respiratory epidemics and older people	6
Fast-track hip and knee arthroplasty in older adults—a prospective cohort of 1,427 procedures in patients ≥85 years	6
‘Unprepared for the depth of my feelings’ - Capturing grief in older people through research poetry	6
Self-reported vision and hallucinations in older adults: results from two longitudinal US health surveys	6
Equal but different! Improving care for older LGBT+ adults	6
Planning to move into a nursing home in old age: does sexual orientation matter?	6
Vitamin D deficiency is associated with orthostatic hypotension in older men: a cross-sectional analysis from the British Regional Heart Study	6
Adaptation of the comprehensive geriatric assessment to a virtual delivery format	6
A scoping review of education and training resources supporting care home staff in facilitating residents’ sexuality, intimacy and relational needs	6
Predicting incident delirium diagnoses using data from primary-care electronic health records	6
Healthcare for older people in Central and South America	6
Covid-19 in dementia: an insidious pandemic	6
Physical performance trajectories and mortality among nursing home residents: results of the SENIOR cohort	6
Erectile dysfunction predicts mortality in middle-aged and older men independent of their sex steroid status	6
The role of sodium-glucose co-transporter-2 inhibitors in frail older adults with or without type 2 diabetes mellitus	6
Driving in Parkinson’s disease: a retrospective study of driving and mobility assessments	6
Inpatient hip fractures: understanding and addressing the risk of this common injury	6
Impact of comprehensive geriatric assessment on the risk of adverse events in the older patients receiving anti-cancer therapy: a systematic review and meta-analysis	6
Effectiveness of a multicomponent exercise program to reverse pre-frailty in community-dwelling Chinese older adults: a randomised controlled trial	6
A qualitative exploration of the experiences of community dwelling older adults with sensory impairment/s receiving polypharmacy on their pharmaceutical care journey	5
Comprehensive geriatric assessment in newly diagnosed older myeloma patients: a multicentre, prospective, non-interventional study	5
Health and social care costs at the end of life: a matched analysis of linked patient records in East London	5
Survival and outcomes for stroke survivors living in care homes: a prospective cohort study	5
Why choose geriatric medicine? A national survey among French postgraduate medical students	5
Multiple hospital organisational factors are associated with adverse patient outcomes post-hip fracture in England and Wales: the REDUCE record-linkage cohort study	5
Dementia and hearing-aid use: a two-way street	5
Short-latency inhibition mitigates the relationship between conscious movement processing and overly cautious gait	5
Social gradient of self-rated health in older people—the moderating/mediating role of sense of community	5
Epidemiology and outcome of older patients presenting with dyspnoea to emergency departments	5
Utilisation of general practice health assessments around an aged care assessment is associated with lower mortality risk in older Australians	5
Earlier life leisure-time physical activity in relation to age-related frailty syndrome	5
Importance of previous hospital stays on the risk of hospital re-admission in older adults: a real-life analysis of the PAERPA study population	5
Impact of vaccination on the spread of SARS-CoV-2 infection in north-east Italy nursing homes. A propensity score and risk analysis	5
A systematic review of the evidence for the efficacy of opioids for chronic non-cancer pain in community-dwelling older adults	5
Get up and get moving—early mobilisation after hip fracture surgery	5
Growing research in geriatric medicine: a trainee perspective	5
Diagnosing sarcopenia: turn your eyes back on patients	5
Longitudinal associations between C-reactive protein and cognitive performance in normative cognitive ageing and dementia	5
Comparative effectiveness of non-pharmacological interventions for frailty: a systematic review and network meta-analysis	5
Learning from a successful process evaluation in care homes	5
Follow-up services for delirium after COVID-19—where now?	5
Trends in prevalence and outcomes of frailty in a Swiss university hospital: a retrospective observational study	5
Physical multimorbidity and incident urinary incontinence among community-dwelling adults aged ≥50 years: findings from a prospective analysis of the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing	5
The role of resistance exercise training for improving cardiorespiratory fitness in healthy older adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis	5
Early Mobilization in Older Adults with Acute Cardiovascular Disease	5
Burden of cardiovascular diseases in older adults using aged care services	5
Duration of antibiotic treatment using procalcitonin-guided treatment algorithms in older patients: a patient-level meta-analysis from randomized controlled trials	5
Inter-rater reliability of care home staff’s proxy judgements with residents’ assessments of their own health-related quality of life: an analysis of the PATCH trial EQ-5D data	5
The association between ward staffing levels, mortality and hospital readmission in older hospitalised adults, according to presence of cognitive impairment: a retrospective cohort study	5
Risk from low blood pressure in frail older adults: diastolic pressure and pulse pressure are important	5
Changes in social, psychological and physical well-being in the last 5 years of life of older people with cancer: a longitudinal study	5
Long-term physical activity participation trajectories were associated with subsequent cognitive decline, risk of dementia and all-cause mortality among adults aged ≥50 years: a population-based cohor	5
Hospitalisation without delirium is not associated with cognitive decline in a population-based sample of older people—results from a nested, longitudinal cohort study	5
Performance of a trigger tool for detecting drug-related hospital admissions in older people: analysis from the OPERAM trial	5
The effectiveness of rehabilitation interventions including outdoor mobility on older adults’ physical activity, endurance, outdoor mobility and falls-related self-efficacy: systematic review and meta	5
New horizons in the perioperative care of older adults	5
Awareness of the use of hyponatraemia-inducing medications in older adults with hyponatraemia: a study of their prevalent use and association with recurrent symptomatic or severe hyponatraemia	5
Cycle more with virtual reality: a proof of concept study in an institutionalised able-bodied geriatric population	5
Are older patients with diabetes still being overtreated in French long-term care homes?	5
Impaired hydration status in acutely admitted older patients: prevalence and impact on mortality	5
Developing and validating a Chinese multimorbidity-weighted index for middle-aged and older community-dwelling individuals	5
41 From Ward to Classroom: Service Evaluation of Education to Increase Awareness of Frailty and Resilience and Encourage Greater Physical Activity	5
Impact of modifiable healthy lifestyle adoption on lifetime gain from middle to older age	5
Does postoperative delirium following elective noncardiac surgery predict long-term mortality?	5
Investigating the feasibility and reliability of the Pictorial Fit-Frail Scale	5
New horizons in management of heart failure in older patients	5
Mandatory vaccination against COVID-19 for health and social care workers caring for older people	5
Reduced humoral response 3 months following BNT162b2 vaccination in SARS-CoV-2 uninfected residents of long-term care facilities	5
New horizons in iron deficiency anaemia in older adults	5
Association between everyday walking activity, objective and perceived risk of falling in older adults	5
Cognitive health expectancies of cardiovascular risk factors for cognitive decline and dementia	5
Palliative care for older people with dementia—we need a paradigm shift in our approach	5
Preventative strategies and interventions to improve outcomes during heatwaves	5
Geriatric medicine in the era of climate change	5
Frailty: understanding the difference between age and ageing	5
Functional and cognitive decline in older delirious adults after an emergency department visit	5
The effect of opioids on the cognitive function of older adults: results from the Personality and Total Health through life study	5
Bringing osteoporosis up to date: time to address the identity crisis	5
Dyadic appraisal and coping with illness among older Chinese adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus: a qualitative study	5
Recent mortality in Britain: a review of trends and explanations	5
Global pandemic—the true incidence of adverse drug reactions	4
All-cause mortality, cardiovascular mortality, major cardiovascular events and hypoglycaemia of patients with diabetes onset at an older age: results from the 10-year nationwide cohort study	4
Do home modifications reduce care home admissions for older people? A matched control evaluation of the Care & Repair Cymru service in Wales	4
Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability. Blood pressure management in older people	4
Appropriate deprescribing in older people: a challenging necessityCommentary to accompany themed collection on deprescribing	4
Frequency of and risk factors for potentially inappropriate medication use in Parkinson’s disease	4
Frailty indices based on self-report, blood-based biomarkers and examination-based data in the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging	4
Prevalence of atrial fibrillation and outcomes in older long-term care residents: a systematic review	4
Association of prediabetes with death and diabetic complications in older adults: the pros and cons of active screening for prediabetes	4
Hospital admission as a deprescribing triage point for patients discharged to Residential Aged Care Facilities	4
Effect of intravenous iron on functional outcomes in hip fracture: a randomised controlled trial	4
Ageing meets kidney disease	4
Can health behaviours prolong survival and compress the period of survival with the disability? A population-based cohort study	4
Provision of a comprehensive medicines review is associated with lower mortality risk for residents of aged care facilities: a retrospective cohort study	4
The impact of study factors in the association of periodontal disease and cognitive disorders: systematic review and meta-analysis	4
Cervical spine fragility fractures in older people: 5-year experience at a regional spine centre	4
Delayed transfers of care for older people: a wider perspective	4
Statin treatment, phenotypic frailty and mortality among community-dwelling octogenarian men: the HBS cohort	4
Activities of daily living (ADL) and instrumental activities of daily living (IADL) disability in Swedish 85-year-olds born three decades apart—findings from the H70 study	4
Brain white matter hyperintensities-predicted age reflects neurovascular health in middle-to-old aged subjects	4
A medical history of arterial thrombosis is a strong predictor of post-operative myocardial infarction and stroke in patients with hip fractures—a nationwide cohort study	4
Mobile health technology integrated care in older atrial fibrillation patients: a subgroup analysis of the mAFA-II randomised clinical trial	4
Detecting depression in persons living in long-term care: a systematic review and meta-analysis of diagnostic test accuracy studies	4
Traumatic brain injuries among veterans and the risk of incident dementia: A systematic review & meta-analysis	4
Interviewer effects in a survey examining pain intensity and pain interference in nursing home residents	4
Developing and evaluating a frailty index for older South Africans—findings from the HAALSI study	4
Medication reviews and deprescribing as a single intervention in falls prevention: a systematic review and meta-analysis	4
Geriatric emergency medicine—a model for frailty friendly healthcare	4
The COVID-19 pandemic appears to have increased longevity in Japanese centenarians	4
Association of life satisfaction with disability-free survival: role of chronic diseases and healthy lifestyle	4
General practitioner conduct of clinical services representing comprehensive geriatric assessment is associated with lower risk of mortality in older Australians receiving home care packages	4
Effect of frailty on outcomes of endovascular treatment for acute ischaemic stroke in older patients	4
‘You need to be healthy to be sick’: exploring older people’s experiences with medication packaging at home	4
Fracture risks in patients with atrial fibrillation treated with different oral anticoagulants: a meta-analysis and systematic review	4
Statin-induced autoimmune necrotizing myopathy with pharyngeal muscles involvement	4
Life satisfaction among older adults with impairment in activities of daily living	4
Health-related quality of life in older patients surviving ICU treatment for COVID-19: results from an international observational study of patients older than 70 years	4
Orthopaedic physiotherapists’ perceptions of mechanisms for observed variation in the implementation of physiotherapy practices in the early postoperative phase after hip fracture: a UK qualitative st	4
Prevalence of malnutrition risk among older French adults with culinary dependence	4
Cause-specific mortality prediction in older residents of São Paulo, Brazil: a machine learning approach	4
Why illness is more important than disease in old age	4
Does the public feel prepared to be substitute decision-makers? Gaps in preparedness and support for a high school curriculum: a national survey	4
Recent fall and high imminent risk of fracture in older men and women	4
New horizons in understanding the experience of Chinese people living with dementia: a positive psychology approach	4
Monetary value of informal caregiving in dementia from a societal perspective	4
Effectiveness of BNT162b2 and ChAdOx-1 vaccines in residents of long-term care facilities in England using a time-varying proportional hazards model	4
Healthcare for older people in lower and middle income countries	4
Prevalence and diagnostic agreement of sarcopenic obesity with different definitions among Chinese community-dwelling older adults	4
Rotigotine patch prescription in inpatients with Parkinson’s disease: evaluating prescription accuracy, delirium and end-of-life use	4
Stakeholders’ views on the use of psychotropic medication in older people: a systematic review	4
Dual impairments in visual and hearing acuity and age-related cognitive decline in older adults from the Rancho Bernardo Study of Healthy Aging	4
Olive oil consumption is associated with lower frailty risk: a prospective cohort study of community-dwelling older adults	4
Perspectives on ageing: a qualitative study of the expectations, priorities, needs and values of older people from two Canadian provinces	3
The value of ambulatory blood pressure measurement to detect masked diastolic hypotension in older patients treated for hypertension	3
Shake, rattle and get moving again	3
Delirium in COVID-19: common, distressing and linked with poor outcomes. . . can we do better?	3