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

Barriers and facilitators to participation in electronic health interventions in older adults with cognitive impairment: an umbrella review

Authors: Chunyi Zhou, Yating Ai, Sixue Wang, Yue Yuan, Ailin Zhang, Hui Hu and Yuncui Wang

Content type: Systematic Review 26 December 2024
Prevalence of self-neglect and related factors among older adults living in Western Turkey: a cross-sectional study

Authors: Canan Bulut Ayaz and Melike Yalçin Gürsoy

Content type: Research 24 December 2024
Association of timed up and go test results with future injurious falls among older adults by sex: a population-based cohort study

Authors: Jiyun Kim and Sookja Choi

Content type: Research 23 December 2024
Happiness, sleep quality, and self-care ability among community-dwelling older adults in Tehran, 2023

Authors: Milad Bakhtiyary, Farshad Sharifi, Keyvan Karimi, Mohammad Salehpoor-Emran, Fatemeh Sadat Mirzadeh and Pouya Farokhnezhad Afshar

Content type: Research 23 December 2024
COVID-19 vaccine safety and effectiveness at 3 months in institutionalized old people

Authors: Mathilde Malignac, Adrien Besseiche, Anaïs Cloppet-Fontaine, Mohand Ouali Sadeg, Jamileh Jafarbay, Mathilde Gourdon, Christophe Trivalle, Claude Jeandel, Jean-Sébastien Vidal and Olivier Hanon

Content type: Research 23 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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Barriers and facilitators to participation in electronic health interventions in older adults with cognitive impairment: an umbrella review

Prevalence of self-neglect and related factors among older adults living in Western Turkey: a cross-sectional study

Association of timed up and go test results with future injurious falls among older adults by sex: a population-based cohort study

Happiness, sleep quality, and self-care ability among community-dwelling older adults in Tehran, 2023

COVID-19 vaccine safety and effectiveness at 3 months in institutionalized old people

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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