Call for Abstracts

Geriatric Medicine Journal is calling for abstract submissions for its annual conference held on Tuesday 18th October 2022 at Hallam Conference Centre, London.

The theme of this year’s conference is Health and Ageing in a Post-Covid NHS. It will look at the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on healthcare systems and the care of older patients. With further reform from the Heath and Care Act and the NHS backlog to tackle, it will also discuss the impact on services and management of older patients going forward.

We invite abstracts on all clinical aspects of midlife and ageing medicine. To present your research at the conference, your abstract must first pass double-blind peer review.

All the abstracts accepted will be displayed as posters or oral presentations. Authors are requested to indicate their preference for oral and/or poster presentation on submission.

You can also submit an E-poster for our abstract competition as a virtual delegate, with options to pre-record oral presentations if selected as a finalist.*

They will also be published in the November edition of Geriatric Medicine Journal.

The winning abstract will receive a prize of £200.

The deadline for entry is Friday 16^th September. Those accepted will be notified by Friday 30^th September.

*Please note: Recordings of presentations will be required in advance. There will not be any collection of presentations onsite. Presenters may be asked to join virtually during the session for live Q&A.

Submission guidelines

• All abstracts must be submitted in English.
• Maximum number of words: 350 excluding titles, authors and affiliations.
• Maximum two tables or figures.
• The title should be concise and written in lower case.
• The affiliation of the co-author should contain the following: unit or section, department, name of the organisation, city, and country.
• Please remain anonymous in the text of your abstract
• All abbreviations must be specified in the body of the text, when used for the first time.
• Please use generic names of drugs. Proprietary name may be put in parentheses.
• Make your paper clear enough for people from other disciplines to understand.

Abstracts should include the following:

• Aim: description of the aim/objective of the research
• Methods: description of the methods used
• Results: results of the research
• Conclusion: brief conclusion

Five abstracts will be selected for oral presentation:

• Presentation (7 minutes)
• Discussion (3 minutes)
• The rest will be poster presentations that will be displayed in the coffee/exhibitor room

Additional guidance

• Abstracts are accepted under the condition that at least the presenting author has paid the registration fee (either face-to-face or virtual).
• The payment of the registration fee is not associated with the acceptance of the abstract. In case of rejection or withdrawal of an abstract, there will be no reimbursement for the registration fee.

Please send all submissions to [email protected] in word format before the submission deadline.