November issue of Age & Ageing out now

The November 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:

• Retirement and sedentary behaviours
• High-velocity resistance training
• Single versus shared rooms in hospital
• Antihypertensives in frail older people
• Inflammation and frailty

The Editor’s View can be read here.

This issue’s free access papers include:

• Genetic variant of Interleukin-18 gene is associated with the Frailty Index in the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing

• Hydration and outcome in older patients admitted to hospital (The HOOP prospective cohort study

• Development of a self-administrated quality of life questionnaire for sarcopenia in elderly subjects: the SarQoL

• Dementia priority setting partnership with the James Lind Alliance: using patient and public involvement and the evidence base to inform the research agenda
  

• Dementia in older people admitted to hospital: a regional multi-hospital observational study of prevalence, associations and case recognition

They might be drawing their pension but they’re not sitting around – retired people are less sedentary than those who work

Alan Godfrey is a Research Associate at the Institute for Ageing and Health, Newcastle, and for the LiveWell Programme to promote improved health and well-being in later life. They tweet at: @LiveWellUK

A recent study from the Institute of Ageing and Health (IAH) at Newcastle University has suggested that retirement may have a positive effect on time spent being active (walking). To date, little is known about the effects of retirement and age on this form of physical activity as previous research has relied on diaries or estimates of activity (from self-reported time spent inactive) during a person’s daily/weekly schedule.

The current study, led by Dr. Alan Godfrey and recently published in the journal Age and Ageing, studied the ambulatory and sedentary (time spent sitting/lying) behaviours of 98 older adults (48-89 years) from the cohort of healthy adults recruited as part of the ICICLE Gait study headed by Professor Lynn Rochester at IAH.