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Gerontology

Perspectives

COVID‐19 and residential aged care: priorities for optimising preparation and management of outbreaks

Georgia E Aitken, Alice L Holmes and Joseph E Ibrahim

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (1): 6-8.e1 Free

Perspectives

A guide for medical practitioners transitioning to an encore career or retirement

Chanaka Wijeratne and Joanne Earl

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (1): 12-14.e1

Perspectives

COVID‐19 in a Sydney nursing home: a case study and lessons learnt

Gwendolyn L Gilbert

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (9): 393-396.e1 Free

Perspectives

Implications of COVID‐19 for an ageing population

Nicolette R Holt, Johannes T Neumann, John J McNeil and Allen C Cheng

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (8): 342-344.e1 Free

Editorials

Time for a new approach to funding residential aged care

Edward Strivens

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (8): 355-356

Editorials

Frailty in older adults: moving from measurement to management

Emily H Gordon and Ruth E Hubbard

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (7): 314-315

Research

Development and validation of a frailty index based on Australian Aged Care Assessment Program data

Jyoti Khadka, Renuka Visvanathan, Olga Theou, Max Moldovan, Azmeraw T Amare, Catherine Lang, Julie Ratcliffe, Steven L Wesselingh and Maria C Inacio

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (7): 321-326 Free

Research

The Australian National Aged Care Classification (AN‐ACC): a new casemix classification for residential aged care

Kathy Eagar, Rob Gordon, Milena F Snoek, Carol Loggie, Anita Westera, Peter David Samsa and Conrad Kobel

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (8): 359-363 Free

Perspectives

Is Australia over‐reliant on residential aged care to support our older population?

Suzanne M Dyer, Madeline Valeri, Nimita Arora, Dominic Tilden and Maria Crotty

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (4): 156-157.e1 Free

Perspectives

Opening the lines of communication: towards shared decision making and improved end‐of‐life care in the Top End

Emma Spencer and Eswaran Waran

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (1): 10-11.e1 Free

Perspectives

Australian residential aged care is understaffed

Kathy Eagar, Anita Westera and Conrad Kobel

Med J Aust 2020; 212 (11): 507-508.e1

Perspectives

Assessing fitness to drive in older people: the need for an evidence‐based toolkit in general practice

Katharine A Wallis, James Matthews and Geoffrey K Spurling

Med J Aust 2020; 212 (9): 396-398.e1

Editorials

Prescribing psychotropic medications in residential aged care facilities

Gerard J Byrne

Med J Aust 2020; 212 (7): 304-305

Research

A new model of care and in‐house general practitioners for residential aged care facilities: a stepped wedge, cluster randomised trial

Terry P Haines, Andrew J Palmer, Petra Tierney, Lei Si and Andrew L Robinson

Med J Aust 2020; 212 (9): 409-415 Free

Research

The dispensing of psychotropic medicines to older people before and after they enter residential aged care

Stephanie L Harrison, Janet K Sluggett, Catherine Lang, Craig Whitehead, Maria Crotty, Megan Corlis, Steven L Wesselingh and Maria C Inacio

Med J Aust 2020; 212 (7): 309-313 Free

Narrative review / Aged care series

Differences in frailty in older men and women

Emily H Gordon and Ruth E Hubbard

Med J Aust 2020; 212 (4): 183-188

Letters

Sarcopenia: a deserving recipient of an Australian ICD‐10‐AM code

Jesse Zanker, David Scott, Sharon L Brennan‐Olsen and Gustavo Duque

Med J Aust 2020; 212 (1): 45-45.e1

Research

Frailty in very old critically ill patients in Australia and New Zealand: a population‐based cohort study

Jai N Darvall, Rinaldo Bellomo, Eldho Paul, Ashwin Subramaniam, John D Santamaria, Sean M Bagshaw, Sumeet Rai, Ruth E Hubbard and David Pilcher

Med J Aust 2019; 211 (7): 318-323 Free

Editorials

Outcomes for frail very old patients in the ICU are remarkably good

Alison M Mudge

Med J Aust 2019; 211 (7): 314-315

Research

Potentially suboptimal prescribing of medicines for older Aboriginal Australians in remote areas

Amy Page, Zoë Hyde, Kate Smith, Christopher Etherton‐Beer, David N Atkinson, Leon Flicker, Linda Skeaf, Roslyn Malay and Dina C LoGiudice

Med J Aust 2019; 211 (3): 119-125 Free

Perspectives / Aged care series

Improving the delivery of primary care for older people

C Dimity Pond and Catherine Regan

Med J Aust 2019; 211 (2): 60-62.e1 Free

Research

Polypharmacy among older Australians, 2006–2017: a population‐based study

Amy T Page, Michael O Falster, Melisa Litchfield, Sallie‐Anne Pearson and Christopher Etherton‐Beer

Med J Aust 2019; 211 (2): 71-75 Free

Perspectives

Targeted physical activity for older adults with mild cognitive impairment and subjective cognitive decline

Emily You, Kathryn A Ellis, Kay Cox and Nicola T Lautenschlager

Med J Aust 2019; 210 (9): 394-395.e1

Perspectives

Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety: the key clinical issues

Joseph E Ibrahim

Med J Aust 2019; 210 (10): 439-441.e1

Letters

Nursing home “no returns” policy, when residents are discharged to the emergency department at 4 am: what does the law say?

Malcolm P Forbes and Angelo Ferraro

Med J Aust 2019; 210 (8): 381-381.e1