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14
Feb
2014

Working Group on the Ageing Society
29
Nov
2023

Smarter data, better care: Empowering care homes to use data to transform quality of care

The British Geriatrics Society (BGS) hosted an event in London in September 2023 on ideas and practice around a minimum dataset for care homes. This report, which is based on presentations at the event and the debate that followed, makes 12 recommendations for the effective implementation and delivery of a national minimum dataset that we believe policy-makers and regulators should co
25
Oct
2023

Measurements of healthy ageing: Measuring what matters to older people

The World Health Organization (WHO) in collaboration with Age and Ageing, the journal of the British Geriatrics Society, has released a Special Issue on the Measurements of Healthy Ageing.
01
Nov
2019

Healthier for longer: How healthcare professionals can support older people

This report is intended to explore how messages of prevention and healthy ageing apply to a population group that may already be ill and frail, and to the healthcare professionals who care for them.
26
Feb
2019

BGS Amulree Essay Prize winners announced

The Amulree Essay Prize  is awarded to medical students for an essay on a subject pertinent to ageing or old age written from a medical, biological or sociological point of view. 
25
Jan
2018

Number of older people with four or more diseases will double by 2035, say researchers

02
May
2019

Longitudinal studies of ageing

Highlights the approaches, scope and impacts of a selection of longitudinal studies of ageing published in Age and Ageing within the past 10 years.