September issue of Age & Ageing now available

The September 2015 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:

• Conservative management of urinary incontinence
• Drug treatment of lower urinary tract symptoms
• Discharging older people from the hospital emergency department
• Screening for depression in hospital
• Sexual behaviour and quality of life

The Editor’s View can be read here.

This issue’s free access papers are:

• Medical students’ and doctors’ attitudes towards older patients and their care in hospital settings: a conceptualisation

• Low heel ultrasound parameters predict mortality in men: results from the European Male Ageing Study (EMAS)

• Changing non-participation in epidemiological studies of older people: evidence from the Cognitive Function and Ageing Study I and II

BGS Rising Star Award: Daniel Davis

Daniel Davis is an SpR in Geriatric Medicine on the NW Thames Rotation, spending 50% of his research time as a Clinical Research Fellow at the MRC Unit for Lifelong Health and Ageing at UCL.

Daniel is the joint winner, alongside Roman Romero-Ortuno, of the BGS Rising Star Award 2015.

I have been a SpR in geriatric medicine since 2006, the longer route being through pursuit of an academic career alongside clinical training. My core interest is the relationship between delirium and/or acute illness and trajectories of cognitive decline in large population-representative studies. These are complex relationships which need a wide range of research, from the biological underpinnings through to the implications for health care policy.