BMC Geriatrics

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Rehabilitation and functional improvements

Guest Edited by Wilco Achterberg, Stefan Bachmann, Stefan Grund and Leonoor van Dam van Isselt

End-of-life care and palliative medicine in older adults

Guest Edited by Yoshihisa Hirakawa and Sophie Pautex

Sarcopenia in older adults

Guest Edited by Satoshi Katano, Serdar Ozkok, Konstantinos Prokopidis, and Akio Shimizu

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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

Hypertension may lead to cognitive dysfunction in older adults via methylmalonic acid: evidence from NHANES 2011–2014 population

Authors: Ying Xu, Rucheng Chen, Paulus Torkki, Weijun Zheng and An Chen

Content type: Research 19 December 2024
Intrinsic capacity and its association with predictors among Chinese empty nest older adults in communities: a latent class analysis

Authors: Wenxin Guo, Lina Meng, Junzhe Han, Bin Yang, Jiayu Sun, Yuting Guo, Jiawei Wu and Yang Liu

Content type: Research 19 December 2024
Frailty assessment in geriatric trauma patients: comparing the predictive value of the full and a condensed version of the Fried frailty phenotype

Authors: Joninah Braunschweig, Wei Lang, Gregor Freystätter, Christian Hierholzer, Heike A. Bischoff-Ferrari and Michael Gagesch

Content type: Research 19 December 2024
Clinical characteristics and intravitreal aflibercept outcomes in patients aged 90 years and older with neovascular age-related macular degeneration

Authors: Feyzahan Uzun

Content type: Research 19 December 2024
Social patterning of cognitive impairment in Colombia: evidence from the SABE 2015 study

Authors: Alejandra Guerrero Barragán, Inés Elvira Gómez and Diego Iván Lucumí Cuesta

Content type: Research 19 December 2024

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Oral health and healthy ageing: a scoping review

Authors: Prakash Poudel, Grish Paudel, Reecha Acharya, Ajesh George, Wenche S. Borgnakke and Lal B. Rawal

Content type: Research 8 January 2024
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

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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

Rehabilitation and functional improvements

End-of-life care and palliative medicine in older adults

Sarcopenia in older adults

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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Hypertension may lead to cognitive dysfunction in older adults via methylmalonic acid: evidence from NHANES 2011–2014 population

Intrinsic capacity and its association with predictors among Chinese empty nest older adults in communities: a latent class analysis

Frailty assessment in geriatric trauma patients: comparing the predictive value of the full and a condensed version of the Fried frailty phenotype

Clinical characteristics and intravitreal aflibercept outcomes in patients aged 90 years and older with neovascular age-related macular degeneration

Social patterning of cognitive impairment in Colombia: evidence from the SABE 2015 study

Oral health and healthy ageing: a scoping review

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

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