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Springer Nature Honours Standout Editors Shaping Scientific Publishing in 2026

Springer Nature has announced its 2026 Editor of Distinction Awards, honouring dozens of editors, including a large cohort from BMC Geriatrics, for rigorous peer review management...

Multidisciplinary intervention in frail elderly patients with cardiovascular diseases: a multicentre, single-blinded, ra...

You are the science news desk of a major English-language science magazine. Complete the task immediately. Never ask the reader what to do, never offer editing options, and never r...

Which Chronic Disease Combinations Raise Dementia Risk? New Study Points to Diabetes and Ear Disease

A community-based study of 2,458 older adults in China finds that suspected dementia is linked not just to individual chronic diseases like diabetes and ear disease, but to specifi...

Springer Nature Honors Standout Editors Shaping the Scientific Record in 2026

Springer Nature's 2026 Editor of Distinction Awards recognize sixty BMC Geriatrics editors for rigorous peer review management and exceptional service to authors.

Surgery at 80 and Beyond: New Review Maps the Perioperative Roadmap for the Oldest Patients

As the world’s surgical wards fill with patients in their eighties and nineties, a new narrative review published in European Geriatric Medicine offers the most comprehensive roadm...

Urinary Incontinence: The Neglected Geriatric Giant Demanding Urgent Action in Care and Research

When Sir Bernard Isaacs, one of the founding fathers of modern geriatric medicine, introduced his famous concept of the geriatric giants in the 1960s, he named four towering condit...

Survivor Treatment Selection Bias in Evaluations of Virtual Transition of Care

Post-fracture integrative care 2026

Stimulated by Kim et al 2026.[1] IF – impact factorLTCH – long-term care hospitalNHIS – national health insurance service (South Korea)KM – Korean medicine (referring to traditiona...

What Geriatric Emergency Departments Do Differently

Specialized emergency departments adapt care for older adults with age-focused approaches, safety measures, and support. The post What Geriatric Emergency Departments Do Differentl...

What drives doctors to specialize in geriatric medicine?

Why do some young doctors, facing a vast menu of high-technology specialties, choose instead to devote their careers to the oldest and frailest members of society? A new Spanish st...

Type 2 Diabetes Medications for Older Adults: Which Are Safest?

Dr. K explains what are the most important foods to eat (and avoid) for older adults. Plus what to know about protein & metabolic health, and how to prevent frailty and muscle...

Medications Older Adults Should Avoid or Use with Caution: The American Geriatrics Society Beers Criteria

Today we’re covering a touchstone resource for geriatricians: the “Beers List” of medications that older adults should avoid or use with caution. (Technically, it’s called “The AGS...

How to build a dementia care pathway, not a referral sheet

On the 13th floor of the Jen Chi station-front building in Taipei, a school bell rings. The room does not feel like a hospital. Older adults move through simple exercise, cognitive...

Evidence Under Fire: New Debate Over How Medication Optimisation Tools Should Be Judged

When older patients take a dozen or more medications each day, clinicians need tools that tell them which drugs are doing more harm than good. The most widely used of these instrum...

Frailty hits nearly 1 in 4 older hemophilia patients, UK study finds

Nearly a quarter of hemophilia patients aged 50 and older in a prospective screening program at a large UK hemophilia center met criteria for frailty, a study found. All patients w...

Risk of mortality 2026

Stimulated by Jun et al 2026.[1] IF – impact factorPWD – patients with disabilityIHD – ischaemic heart diseaseCVD – cardiovascular diseaseNHIS – national health insurance service (...

Simple Health Check Program Linked to Lower Diabetes Risk in Older Adults

A Swedish population-based study found that a low-intensity health assessment and counseling program for 70-year-olds was associated with a 24 percent lower risk of developing type...

Health standards for older adults: optimal targets, patient thresholds, and inequality

In a perspective article published in the journal Biogerontology, researcher Daniel Hernández-Pando of Koltin in Mexico City argues that medicine has quietly collapsed two fundamen...

Vituity Launches MVMNT to Move Longevity Medicine From Conversation to Clinical Practice

Inaugural summit brings clinicians and innovators together with evidence-based frameworks for integrating longevity medicine into practice today

Grip Strength as Biomarker of Aging in the Context of Presently Available Gene Therapies

A range of gene therapies are presently available in the medical tourism community of clinics outside the US and Europe, largely originating with a small number of companies such a...

New medical clinic for seniors opens in Rutland County, increasing geriatric care in Vermont

Community Health recently opened a new geriatric clinic in Rutland, bringing seniors in Southern Vermont a closer option for care.

Doctor encourages people to stay active as they age

One-Third of Older Adults With Cognitive Disorders Take Drugs That Could Harm Them

As the population ages, medication safety is becoming increasingly important for people with cognitive decline. Older adults with dementia and other cognitive disorders are less li...

Developing Country-Specific Charlson Comorbidity Index Mappings for Use With German Administrative Data: Methodological...

Background: The Charlson Comorbidity Index (CCI) is widely used to quantify comorbidity burden in observational research. Applying it to real-world data requires accurate Internati...