BMC Geriatrics

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Telemedicine and telehealth in geriatric care

Guest Edited by Leonard C Gray and Milena S Marcolino

Depression, anxiety and mental health in aging

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The impact of early-life/childhood circumstances or conditions on the health of older adults

Guest Edited by Nan Lu, Peng Nie, and Joyce Siette

Living at home with dementia

Guest Edited by Patrick Kor and Monica Leverton

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The influence of Tai Chi exercise on the subjective well-being in older people

Tackling potentially inappropriate prescriptions in older adults: development of deprescribing criteria by consensus

Does testosterone influence the association between sleep and frailty in men: results from the European Male Aging Study

Authors: Seema D. Sharma, Michael J. Cook, Leen Antonio, Evelien Gielen, Gyorgy Bartfai, Felipe F. Casanueva, Ilpo T. Huhtaniemi, Mario Maggi, Margus Punab, Giulia Rastrelli, Jolanta Slowikowska-Hilczer, Jos Tournoy, Dirk Vanderschueren, Frederick C. Wu and Terence W. O’Neill

Content type: Research 6 December 2023
Inaccessibility, unresponsiveness, inconsistency, and invisibility of informal caregivers of older persons with cognitive impairment: community-based participatory research

Authors: Tsuyoshi Okamura, Chiaki Ura, Yukiko Kugimiya, Mutsuko Okamura, Masako Yamamura, Hidemi Okado, Mayumi Kaneko, Mari Yamashita and Tomoko Wakui

Content type: Research 6 December 2023
From pilot to a multi-site trial: refining the Early Detection of Deterioration in Elderly Residents (EDDIE +) intervention

Authors: Michelle J. Allen, Hannah E. Carter, Elizabeth Cyarto, Claudia Meyer, Trudy Dwyer, Florin Oprescu, Christopher Aitken, Alison Farrington, Carla Shield, Jeffrey Rowland, Xing J. Lee, Nicholas Graves, Lynne Parkinson and Gillian Harvey

Content type: Research 6 December 2023
Association between cardiovascular risk factors and cognitive impairment in adults aged 60 years or older from Chile: a cross-sectional study

Authors: Josivaldo Souza-Lima, Sandra Mahecha Matsudo, Pedro Valdivia-Moral, Waldo Pérez, Clemens Drenowatz, Jorge Sapunar Zenteno and Gerson Ferrari

Content type: Research 5 December 2023
Individual and combined associations of sarcopenia, osteoporosis and obesity with frailty in a multi-ethnic asian older adult population

Authors: Matthew Wong Yu Heng, Aurora W. D. Chan, Ryan E. K. Man, Eva K. Fenwick, Samuel T. H. Chew, Laura Tay, Ng Yee Sien, David Ng, Frederick H. Koh, Eu-Leong Yong, Preeti Gupta and Ecosse L. Lamoureux

Content type: Research 5 December 2023

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Household physical activity is positively associated with gray matter volume in older adults

Authors: Noah D. Koblinsky, Liesel-Ann C. Meusel, Carol E. Greenwood and Nicole D. Anderson

Content type: Research article 5 February 2021
Early and late signs that precede dying among older persons in nursing homes: the multidisciplinary team’s perspective

Authors: Helene Åvik Persson, Anna Sandgren, Carl-Johan Fürst, Gerd Ahlström and Lina Behm

Content type: Research Article 4 June 2018
Understanding the care and support needs of older people: a scoping review and categorisation using the WHO international classification of functioning, disability and health framework (ICF)

Authors: Sarah Abdi, Alice Spann, Jacinta Borilovic, Luc de Witte and Mark Hawley

Content type: Research article 22 July 2019

The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Geriatrics 2020 20:23
Pain in elderly people with severe dementia: A systematic review of behavioural pain assessment tools

Authors: Sandra MG Zwakhalen, Jan PH Hamers, Huda Huijer Abu-Saad and Martijn PF Berger

Content type: Research article 27 January 2006
The scientific evidence for a potential link between confusion and urinary tract infection in the elderly is still confusing - a systematic literature review

Authors: Sean Mayne, Alexander Bowden, Pär-Daniel Sundvall and Ronny Gunnarsson

Content type: Research article 4 February 2019

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BMC Geriatrics is an open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research articles in all aspects of the health and healthcare of older people, including the effects of healthcare systems and policies. The journal also welcomes research focused on the aging process, including cellular, genetic, and physiological processes and cognitive modifications.

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BMC Geriatrics

Latest collections open to submissions

Telemedicine and telehealth in geriatric care

Depression, anxiety and mental health in aging

The impact of early-life/childhood circumstances or conditions on the health of older adults

Living at home with dementia

Editor's highlights

The influence of Tai Chi exercise on the subjective well-being in older people

Tackling potentially inappropriate prescriptions in older adults: development of deprescribing criteria by consensus

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Does testosterone influence the association between sleep and frailty in men: results from the European Male Aging Study

Inaccessibility, unresponsiveness, inconsistency, and invisibility of informal caregivers of older persons with cognitive impairment: community-based participatory research

From pilot to a multi-site trial: refining the Early Detection of Deterioration in Elderly Residents (EDDIE +) intervention

Association between cardiovascular risk factors and cognitive impairment in adults aged 60 years or older from Chile: a cross-sectional study

Individual and combined associations of sarcopenia, osteoporosis and obesity with frailty in a multi-ethnic asian older adult population

Household physical activity is positively associated with gray matter volume in older adults

Early and late signs that precede dying among older persons in nursing homes: the multidisciplinary team’s perspective

Understanding the care and support needs of older people: a scoping review and categorisation using the WHO international classification of functioning, disability and health framework (ICF)

Pain in elderly people with severe dementia: A systematic review of behavioural pain assessment tools

The scientific evidence for a potential link between confusion and urinary tract infection in the elderly is still confusing - a systematic literature review

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