July issue of Age and Ageing journal out now

The July 2016 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:

• Frailty index based on basic laboratory and clinical measures
• Dietary protein and ageing
• Do you want to live to be 100
• Social engagement and cognitive ageing
• Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors and progression of dementia

The Editor’s View can be read here.

This issue’s free access papers are:

• Sex differences in the risk of receiving potentially inappropriate prescriptions among older adults

• Diagnostic test accuracy of informant-based tools to diagnose dementia in older hospital patients with delirium: a prospective cohort study

• Do you want to live to be 100? Answers from older people