November issue of Age and Ageing journal out now

The November 2013 issue of Age and Ageing, the journal of the British Geriatrics Society is out now.

A full table of contents is available here, with editorials, research papers, reviews, short reports, case reports book reviews and more. Hot topics this issue include:

• Screening for dementia
• Cancer screening in later life
• Diagnostic accuracy of temperature measurement
• Dysphagia in patients with hip fracture
• The Cochrane Collaboration and Geriatric Medicine

The Editor’s Pick can be read here.

This issue’s free access papers are:

• New horizons in the pathogenesis, assessment and management of delirium
• The Identification of Seniors at Risk (ISAR) score to predict clinical outcomes and health service costs in older people discharged from UK acute medical units
• The predictive properties of frailty-rating scales in the acute medical unit
• Physical activity levels across adult life and grip strength in early old age: updating findings from a British birth cohort