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Gerontology

2019

Research letter

Baby boomers and booze: we should be worried about how older Australians are drinking

Ann M Roche and Victoria Kostadinov

Med J Aust 2019; 210 (1): 38-39 Free

Medical education / Clinical skills

The Timed Up and Go test

William Browne, Balakrishnan (Kichu) R Nair, Balakrishnan (Kichu) Nair and Simon O’Connor

Med J Aust 2019; 210 (1): 13-14

2018

Perspectives

The rising health, social and economic costs of Australia’s ageing prisoner population

Natasha A Ginnivan, Tony G Butler and Adrienne N Withall

Med J Aust 2018; 209 (10): 422-424

Perspectives

Rendering visible the previously invisible in health care: the ageing LGBTI communities

Carmelle Peisah, Kim Burns, Samantha Edmonds and Henry Brodaty

Med J Aust 2018; 209 (3): 106-108

Editorials

Residential aged care: there is no single optimal model

Joseph E Ibrahim

Med J Aust 2018; 208 (10): 431-432

Research

Clustered domestic residential aged care in Australia: fewer hospitalisations and better quality of life

Suzanne M Dyer, Enwu Liu, Emmanuel S Gnanamanickam, Rachel Milte, Tiffany Easton, Stephanie L Harrison, Clare E Bradley, Julie Ratcliffe and Maria Crotty

Med J Aust 2018; 208 (10): 433-438 Free

Letters

Giving older people the opportunity to optimise their quality of life

Alice L Holmes, Marta H Woolford and Joseph E Ibrahim

Med J Aust 2018; 208 (8): 369

Medical education / Clinical skills

Bedside cognitive assessment

Lorenzo Norris and Elizabeth L Cobbs

Med J Aust 2018; 208 (5): 200-201

Letters

Premature deaths of nursing home residents: an epidemiological analysis

J Michael Wynne

Med J Aust 2018; 208 (3): 142-143

Letters

Premature deaths of nursing home residents: an epidemiological analysis

Judy A Lowthian, Claudia Meyer, Dianne Goeman and Colette Browning

Med J Aust 2018; 208 (3): 143

Letters

Premature deaths of nursing home residents: an epidemiological analysis

Joseph E Ibrahim, David L Ranson and Lyndal Bugeja

Med J Aust 2018; 208 (3): 143

Letters

Premature deaths of nursing home residents: an epidemiological analysis

Henry Zeimer

Med J Aust 2018; 208 (3): 142

Editorials

Self-management support for patients with chronic disease: potential and questions

Nicholas A Zwar and Sarah M Dennis

Med J Aust 2018; 208 (2): 66-67

2017

Short report

Adverse events following vaccination of older people may be under-reported

Hazel J Clothier, Nigel W Crawford, Melissa Russell and Jim P Buttery

Med J Aust 2017; 207 (7): 301-302 Free

Letters

Sarcopenia: a potential cause and consequence of type 2 diabetes in Australia’s ageing population?

David Scott, Barbora de Courten and Peter R Ebeling

Med J Aust 2017; 207 (2): 89

Research

Fall-related hospitalisations of older Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and other Australians

Caroline Lukaszyk, Lara A Harvey, Catherine Sherrington, Jacqueline CT Close, Julieann Coombes, Rebecca J Mitchell, Robyn Moore and Rebecca Ivers

Med J Aust 2017; 207 (1): 31-35 Free

Editorials

Averting avoidable deaths of nursing home residents

Catherine Yelland

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (10): 434-435 Free

Research

Premature deaths of nursing home residents: an epidemiological analysis

Joseph E Ibrahim, Lyndal Bugeja, Melissa Willoughby, Marde Bevan, Chebiwot Kipsaina, Carmel Young, Tony Pham and David L Ranson

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (10): 442-447 Free

Research

Professional and psychosocial factors affecting the intention to retire of Australian medical practitioners

Chanaka Wijeratne, Joanne K Earl, Carmelle Peisah, Georgina M Luscombe and Johanna Tibbertsma

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (5): 209-214 Free

Editorials

Self-poisoning by older Australians

Malcolm J Hopwood

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (4): 161-162 Free

Research

Self-poisoning by older Australians: a cohort study

Peter I Pillans, Colin B Page, Sivarajah Ilango, Anna Kashchuk and Geoffrey K Isbister

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (4): 164-169 Free

Research

Understanding 30-day re-admission after hospitalisation of older patients for diabetes: identifying those at greatest risk

Gillian E Caughey, Nicole L Pratt, John D Barratt, Sepehr Shakib, Anna R Kemp-Casey and Elizabeth E Roughead

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (4): 170-175 Free

Research

Daily step count and the need for hospital care in subsequent years in a community-based sample of older Australians

Ben D Ewald, Christopher Oldmeadow and John R Attia

Med J Aust 2017; 206 (3): 126-130 Free

2016

Competition / MJA, MDA National, Nossal Global Health Prize Winner — Medical student category

Ageing and access in the mountains

Rebekah Young

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (11): 512-513 Free

Competition / MJA, MDA National, Nossal Global Health Prize: Winner medical practitioner category

Of a different age

Mahmood F Bhutta

Med J Aust 2016; 205 (11): 511 Free