Publications

In this section, we publish papers around age and ageing. We include opinion on issues such as research into ageing, age discrimination and papers on specific sub-specialties such as stroke, diabetes in older people etc.

New Paper: Sarcopenia is associated with a greater risk of polypharmacy and number of medications: asystematic review and meta-analysis

New Paper - The role of comprehensive geriatric assessment in older patients affected by knee osteoarthritis: a systematic review

Expertscape - Geriatric Assessment Worldwide

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MEDICATIONS in OLDER PEOPLE

Issue Editors: Antonio Cherubini, Marie Laure Laroche, Mirko Petrovic (from the EuGMS SIG on Pharmacology)

EGM - European Geriatric Medicine Volume 12, issue 3, June 2021

FREE READING till 1st JULY 2021

Norway - Nursing home deaths after COVID-19 vaccination

In the period 27 December 2020 to 15 February 2021, about 29 400 of Norway’s roughly 35 000 nursing home patients were vaccinated with the mRNA vaccine BNT162b2. During the same period, the Norwegian Medicines Agency received 100 reports of suspected fatal adverse reactions to the vaccine. An expert group has examined the reports and assessed the extent of a causal link between vaccination and death

Lancet Healthy Longevity paper

Polypharmacy, inappropriate prescribing, and deprescribing in older people: through a sex and gender lens (with the collaboration of the EuGMS SIG on Pharmacology)

The Green Paper on Ageing - January 2021