Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction is an emerging global epidemic that requires increased awareness among the primary healthcare community.

Maintaining health and function into older age is a priority for patients, clinicians and policy-makers.

There is a need to enhance aged care exposure for general practice registrars in ways that build on the competence of registrars and the trust in registrars by older patients and supervisors.

Most men who present with non-specific androgen deficiency–like symptoms have functional gonadal axis suppression due to ill health.

Comorbidities, multimorbidity and frailty are increasingly becoming a major focus of care as a result of the ageing population of people with human immunodeficiency virus.

Menopause is an opportune time for clinicians to assess and promote health, and provide balanced information about treatment choices for symptomatic women.

General practitioners are well positioned to take a comprehensive approach to the management of functional decline in older people, aided by a range of funded programs.

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Clinical photography is a fundamental component of visually oriented medical fields.

There are key gaps in general practitioners’ knowledge and confidence about identifying and responding to men’s use of violence in relationships.

Maintaining health and function into older age is a priority for patients, clinicians and policy-makers. The Focus articles in this issue discuss the care of ageing patients in general practice.

This qualitative study presents a first look at how Australian general practitioners think about and act on frailty in daily practice.

Scrotal calcinosis is a benign condition characterised by the progressive appearance of solitary or multiple calcified, painless nodules on the scrotum.

A girl aged 2.5 years presented to her general practitioner with a firm lump on her left jaw.

The clinical challenge for this issue is no longer available.