Our editorial manager, Katy Ladbrook, presents Rowan Harwood with his leaving gift, 'from all your friends at Age_and_Ageing' #BGSconf

Learning about ageing from monkeys 🐵 #BGSconf

“Team delirium” presenting this study looking at outcomes in patients with #parkinsonsdisease and #delirium — outcomes much worse in this group in terms of survival (46% predicted to be dead within a year of presenting with delirium), dementia, and institutionalisation #BGSconf

Link between PD and delirium from Rachel Lawsons team #BGSconf

Professor Vicki Goodwin argues that complex patients and complex interventions do not lend themselves to simple research findings.
Time to look at alternative outcomes that are more patient centered and participatory. #bgsconf

Prof Claire Hulme's take-home messages on the cost effectiveness of HOPE - unfortunately at the current level of effectiveness, it does not meet the NICE threshold and is unlikely to over the next fifteen years #BGSconf

⁦Daniel Davis⁩ sporting a flyer for #declared25 and no doubt thinking about Cairns in July 2025 🐟 ☀️ 🏝️ ⁦AustralasianDelirium⁩ #BGSconf #delirium

Pleasure to hear from ⁦Daniel Davis⁩ who is wrestling with the big epidemiological questions in #delirium #BGSconf ⁦AustralasianDelirium⁩

⁦Ajay V Macharouthu⁩ #BGSconf

'Eating and drinking with acknowledged risk' is a term that is both clear and acceptable to carers #BGSconf

Here is the guide to eating and drinking in advanced dementia - it includes red flags that should prompt carers to seek help, as well as strategies for common problems ucl.ac.uk/psychiatry/sit… #BGSconf

“Need a government that will care for older people”. Don’t forget to vote #bgsconf

2023 BGS TPD survey. Key issue is how geriatrics can be made more attractive 🤔
Reducing on call (levelling to other medical specialties) may help overcome a deterrent. Greater medical school exposure to reduce ageist attitudes necessary.
Other suggestions?? #BGSconf ⁦

And a big round of applause for our very own outgoing Editor in Chief, Rowan Harwood - enormous thanks for all your work over the last six years, helping to make us the most highly cited clinical gerontology journal in the world! #BGSconf

ENORMOUS thanks - now the highest impact clinical gerontology journal in the world!

Fascinating to see the progression of deprescribing towards the end of life from Rosie Marchant. 14 medicines down to 8 and then down again to 3 in the last months of life. #BGSconf

The 4AT, a rapid delirium detection tool for use in hospice inpatient units: Findings from a validation study dlvr.it/T77kKt