While innovative in how they work, they slow the progress of Alzheimer’s almost imperceptibly, and can also cause dangerous side effects like brain swelling and bleeding.Drugs aside, maintaining brain ...

In the first update since 2001 to guidelines for preventing falls in older persons, the American Geriatrics Society and the British Geriatrics Society published recommendations that all ...

Offthetopofmyhead has rebranded the British Geriatrics Society (BGS), the professional membership organisation for consultant geriatricians and other healthcare professionals working with older people ...

A British Geriatric Society survey of 200 doctors found that more than half would be worried about how the NHS would treat them in old age. The government says age discrimination legislation will be ...

Giving long-term care providers a new reference tool to help manage residents’ pain, the British Geriatric Society and British Pain Society collaborated on the comprehensive set of guidelines.

January 13, 2011 — The American Geriatrics Society (AGS) and the British Geriatric Society (BGS) have updated their 2001 guidelines on preventing falls in older persons and have published a ...

TNF Pharmaceuticals Delivers Platform Presentation of Oral TNF-Alpha Inhibitor Isomyosamine at British Geriatrics Society’s Spring Meeting 2025 Positive clinical data validates commencement of a ...

Dr. Lasantha Ganewatta MBBS (SL), MD (Colombo), FRCP (London), FRCP (Edin.), MRCP (UK), FCCP, Diploma in Geriatric Medicine- DGM (UK), MRCP-SCE (Geriatrics) (UK) , MRCP (Endocrinology & Diabetes) (UK) ...

Ashish Joshi has spoken to Care England and the British Geriatric Society who say there has not been enough consideration of the role carers and doctors in the community will have in assisted dying.

In the first update of the American Geriatrics Society and the British Geriatric Society's guidelines on preventing falls in older persons since 2001, they now recommend that all interventions for ...

This research was conducted as part of the Scottish Care of Older People Project (SCoOP), a national evaluation project, supported by the British Geriatric Society, which focuses on the care of ...