BGS Newsletter: Issue 66 August 2018

This issue looks at CGA in acute care, evidence for hip fracture guidelines, the Stay Safe initiative and the Otago home exercise programme.

Also in this issue:

• Editorial 
• From the President 
• Hospital Wide CGA and the Hospital Risk Score 
• Evaluation of an Otago Exercise Programme and behaviour change techniques to ensure adherence 
• The prevalence of frailty and its association with clinical outcomes in general surgery 
• Nursing Perspectives on the Confusion Assessment Method 
• Does pain increase delirium risk in people with dementia during a hospital admission? 
• Hip fracture management - plenty of guidelines, not enough evidence 
• The Older Person Whisperer 
• Mirabegron - useful for frail older people 
• The BGS and the BAD - some good cross-pollination 
• Low vitamin intake is associated with risk of frailty in older adults 
• BGS Policy work on social work 
• BGS Policy update - summer 2018 
• Frailty in older people and the stay safe initiative 
• John's Campaign: three (and a half) years' old - changing the culture of care 
• Discussing palliative care for people with dementia living at home and in care homes 
• Geriatrics - an old problem 
• BGS Wales Update 
• The journey from Gerontologia Clinica to Age and Ageing