May issue of Age and Ageing journal out now

The May 2017 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 in this issue include:

• • NICE guidelines for management of multi-morbidity
  • Emergency department assessment of older people
  • Inequalities of healthcare for older people with dementia
  • Prevention of disability due to joint contractures
  • Quality assessment of research

The Editor’s View can be read here. 

This issue’s free access papers are:

• Using quality assessment tools to critically appraise ageing research: a guide for clinicians
• Can consultant geriatrician led comprehensive geriatric assessment in the emergency department reduce hospital admission rates? A systematic review
• Interventions to prevent or reduce the level of frailty in community-dwelling older adults: a scoping review of the literature and international policies
• Inequalities in receipt of mental and physical healthcare in people with dementia in the UK
• The development and validation of an index to predict 10-year mortality risk in a longitudinal cohort of older English adults
• Common eye diseases in older adults of southern Germany: results from the KORA-Age study
• A life course approach to health literacy: the role of gender, educational attainment and lifetime cognitive capability
• Age-related references in national public health, technology appraisal and clinical guidelines and guidance: documentary analysis