- Hot topics in this issue include:
- New pain assessment guideline
- Future population burden of
multimorbidity - Systemic anti-cancer treatment for
older people - Treating malnutrition in care homes
- Effects of different types of
exercise in older people - Research methods – diagnostic test
accuracy studies
The Editor’s View article gives an overview of the issue with a summary of highlights. This article is free to read and can be viewed here.
There are more Open Access articles in this issue which can be read and downloaded for free:
- Pain assessment in the older population: what the literature says
- Identifying who lives in a care home—a challenge to be conquered
- Projections of multi-morbidity in the older population in England to 2035: estimates from the Population Ageing and Care Simulation (PACSim) model
- Accurate identification of hospital admissions from care homes; development and validation of an automated algorithm
- Social isolation and loneliness as risk factors for the progression of frailty: the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing
- Improved hearing in Swedish 70-year olds—a cohort comparison over more than four decades (1971–2014)
- The decision to work after state pension age and how it affects quality of life: evidence from a 6-year English panel study
- Seeking assistance in later life: how do older people evaluate their need for assistance?
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