All Outputs (4)

Frailsafe: from conception to national breakthrough collaborative (2016)
Journal Article
Offord, N., Wyrko, Z., Downes, T., Hopper, A., Harriman, P., & Gordon, A. L. (2016). Frailsafe: from conception to national breakthrough collaborative. Acute Medicine, 15(3),

The number of people aged over 60 years worldwide is projected to rise from 605 million in 2000 to almost 2 billion by 2050, while those over 80 years will quadruple to 395 million. Two-thirds of UK acute hospital admissions are over 65, the highest... Read More about Frailsafe: from conception to national breakthrough collaborative.

The development of a geriatric postgraduate education assessment instrument using a modified Delphi procedure (2016)
Journal Article
Singler, K., Gordon, A. L., Robertson, G., & Roller-Wirnsberger, R. (2016). The development of a geriatric postgraduate education assessment instrument using a modified Delphi procedure. Age and Ageing, 45(5), 716-720. https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afw086

There is currently wide variation in the structure and content of higher medical training in geriatric medicine across Europe and no common framework within which existing efforts can be compared. We set out to develop an audit tool to compare traini... Read More about The development of a geriatric postgraduate education assessment instrument using a modified Delphi procedure.

Effective health care for older people living and dying in care homes: a realist review (2016)
Journal Article
Goodman, C., Dening, T., Gordon, A. L., Davies, S. L., Meyer, J., Martin, F. C., …Zubair, M. (in press). Effective health care for older people living and dying in care homes: a realist review. BMC Health Services Research, 16(269), https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-016-1493-4

Background: Care home residents in England have variable access to health care services. There is currently no coherent policy or consensus about the best arrangements to meet these needs. The purpose of this review was to explore the evidence for ho... Read More about Effective health care for older people living and dying in care homes: a realist review.

The development and evaluation of mini-GEMs: a short, focused, online e-learning videos in geriatric medicine (2016)
Journal Article
Garside, M. J., Fisher, J. M., Blundell, A. G., & Gordon, A. L. (in press). The development and evaluation of mini-GEMs: a short, focused, online e-learning videos in geriatric medicine. Gerontology and Geriatrics Education, https://doi.org/10.1080/02701960.2016.1165217

Mini Geriatric E-Learning Modules (Mini-GEMs) are short, focused, e-learning videos on geriatric medicine topics, hosted on YouTube, which are targeted at junior doctors working with older people. This study aimed to explore how these resources are a... Read More about The development and evaluation of mini-GEMs: a short, focused, online e-learning videos in geriatric medicine.