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Gerontology

Research

Adherence to clinical care standards and mortality after hip fracture surgery in New South Wales, 2015–2018: a retrospective population‐based study

Lara Harvey, Morag E Taylor, Ian A Harris, Rebecca J Mitchell, Ian D Cameron, Pooria Sarrami and Jacqueline Close

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (9): 480-485 Free

Research

The likelihood of hospital‐acquired complications in older people with dementia: a matched cohort study

Danielle Ní Chróinín, Vicki Deane, Rinsy Pulikotil Zachariah, Katrina Stott, Bernadette Shepherd, Margaret Perkins, Leesa Giang, Rozina Shekhar, Vaulina Vueti, Mandana Mayahi‐Neysi, Amy Montgomery, Kaye Rolls and Steven A Frost

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (8): 422-425 Free

Ethics and law

A community within social and ecological communities: a new philosophical foundation for a just residential aged care sector

Lachlan Green, Bridget Pratt and David Kirchhoffer

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (9): 469-472 Free

Research

The impact of ageing‐in‐place reforms on the provision of home care packages for older Australians, 2008–21: a repeated cross‐sectional study

Johannes Schwabe, Gillian E Caughey, Steve L Wesselingh, Craig Whitehead, Renuka Visvanathan, Keith Evans and Maria C Inacio

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (5): 264-269 Free

Perspective

The loneliness epidemic: a holistic view of its health and economic implications in older age

Lidia Engel and Cathrine Mihalopoulos

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (6): 290-292 Free

Perspective

Preventing falls and fall‐related injuries in older people

Ian D Cameron, Susan E Kurrle and Cathie Sherrington

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (3): 140-144 Free

Research

Aged care service use by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people after aged care eligibility assessments, 2017-2019: a population‐based retrospective cohort study

Odette Pearson (Eastern Kuku‐Yalanji and Torres Strait Islander), Tracy Air, Greer Humphrey, Clare Bradley, Noeleen Tunny, Alex Brown (Yuin Nation), Steven L Wesselingh, Maria C Inacio and Gillian E Caughey

Med J Aust 2024; 221 (1): 31-38 Free

Letters

Hospital utilisation in Australia, 1993–2020, with a focus on use by people over 75 years of age: a review of AIHW data

Velandai Srikanth

Med J Aust 2023; 219 (10): 503-503 Free

Letters

Hospital utilisation in Australia, 1993–2020, with a focus on use by people over 75 years of age: a review of AIHW data

Natasha Reid and Leonard C Gray

Med J Aust 2023; 219 (10): 503-503 Free

Editorials

Re‐imagining health care for an ageing population

Renuka Visvanathan and Donald Campbell

Med J Aust 2023; 219 (3): 105-106

Research

Hospital utilisation in Australia, 1993–2020, with a focus on use by people over 75 years of age: a review of AIHW data

Natasha Reid, Thakeru Gamage, Stephen J Duckett and Leonard C Gray

Med J Aust 2023; 219 (3): 113-119 Free

Letters

Recognising and supporting the role of enrolled nurses in Australian nursing homes

Micah DJ Peters

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (6): 284-284 Free

Perspectives

Hospital congestion: a market solution to address delayed transfers of care from hospital beds

Benedict Rogers, Juan Paolo Legaspi and Tarun Bastiampillai

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (7): 298-300 Free

Research letter

Different estimates of the prevalence of dementia in Australia, 2021

Annette J Dobson, Leon Flicker, Osvaldo P Almeida, Michael Waller and Kaarin Anstey

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (7): 320-321 Free

Editorials

Aged care residents — and everybody else — would benefit from better control of COVID‐19 transmission

Gwendolyn L Gilbert

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (4): 166-167 Free

Research

Factors associated with hospitalisations and deaths of residential aged care residents with COVID‐19 during the Omicron (BA.1) wave in Queensland

Robert J Ellis, Cameron RM Moffatt, Luke T Aaron, Greta Beaverson, Khin Chaw, Corinne Curtis, Rhett Freeman‐Lamb, Deborah Judd, Khadija Khatry, Yee Sum Li, Terry Nash, Bonnie Macfarlane, Karen Slater, Yudish Soonarane, Mark Stickley and Satyamurthy Anuradha

Med J Aust 2023; 218 (4): 174-179 Free

Perspectives

Implementing mandatory COVID‐19 vaccination for Australian aged care workers

Sally Hall Dykgraaf, Jane Desborough, Anne Parkinson, Elizabeth A Sturgiss, Paul Kelly and Michael Kidd

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (11): 570-574 Free

Perspectives

More than a fleeting conversation: managing medication communication across transitions of care

Elizabeth Manias, Carmel Hughes, Robyn E Woodward‐Kron, Christine M Jorm, Guncag Ozavci and Tracey K Bucknall

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (4): 176-177 Free

Editorials

Prompt access to cataract surgery is vital for preventing falls in older people

Alexander Foss

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (2): 84-85

Research

The incidence of falls after first and second eye cataract surgery: a longitudinal cohort study

Lisa Keay, Kam Chun Ho, Kris Rogers, Peter McCluskey, Andrew JR White, Nigel Morlet, Jonathon Q Ng, Ecosse Lamoureux, Konrad Pesudovs, Fiona J Stapleton, Soufiane Boufous, Jessie Huang‐Lung and Anna Palagyi

Med J Aust 2022; 217 (2): 94-99 Free

Research letter

Improved survival rates after hip fracture surgery in New South Wales, 2011–2018

Lara Harvey, Ian A Harris, Rebecca J Mitchell, Adrian Webster, Ian D Cameron, Louisa Jorm, Hannah Seymour, Pooria Sarrami and Jacqueline Close

Med J Aust 2022; 216 (8): 420-421 Free

Letters

The ABCD of the comprehensive geriatric assessment

Alaa Alghamry and Joseph C Lee

Med J Aust 2022; 216 (4): 211-211

Letters

The ABCD of the comprehensive geriatric assessment

Paven Kaur

Med J Aust 2022; 216 (4): 211-211

Letters

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

Geoffrey Hawson

Med J Aust 2022; 216 (2): 105-105

Letters

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

Chanaka Wijeratne and Joanne Earl

Med J Aust 2022; 216 (2): 106-106