Age and Ageing

Editorials:

Graham P. Mulley

Age and Ageing: Editor's report
Age Ageing 2001 30: 1-2; doi:10.1093/ageing/30.1.1 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jeremy R. Playfer

Falls and Parkinson's disease
Age Ageing 2001 30: 3-4; doi:10.1093/ageing/30.1.3 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Commentaries:

James T. Eccles

Mental capacity and medical decisions
Age Ageing 2001 30: 5-7; doi:10.1093/ageing/30.1.5 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Adrian O. Wilson and Donald J. Adamchak

The grandmothers' disease—the impact of AIDS on Africa's older women
Age Ageing 2001 30: 8-10; doi:10.1093/ageing/30.1.8 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

News and reviews:

News and reviews
Age Ageing 2001 30: 11-12; doi:10.1093/ageing/30.1.11 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Review:

David N. Anderson

Treating depression in old age: the reasons to be positive
Age Ageing 2001 30: 13-17; doi:10.1093/ageing/30.1.13 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Innovation in practice:

Shaun T. O'Keeffe

Development and implementation of resuscitation guidelines: a personal experience
Age Ageing 2001 30: 19-25; doi:10.1093/ageing/30.1.19 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Research papers:

Tony N. G. Clarke

A deceiving patient
Age Ageing 2001 30: 26; doi:10.1093/ageing/30.1.26 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Paul F. Findlay, D. Gwyn Seymour, William R. Primrose, and Yvonne Gibbons

Pictorial outcome measures for the hospital care of older patients—a suggested toolkit
Age Ageing 2001 30: 27-32; doi:10.1093/ageing/30.1.27 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Irwin Nazareth, Ann Burton, Sally Shulman, Paul Smith, Andy Haines, and Heather Timberall

A pharmacy discharge plan for hospitalized elderly patients—a randomized controlled trial
Age Ageing 2001 30: 33-40; doi:10.1093/ageing/30.1.33 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Khaled Abou-Hatab, M. Sinead O'Mahony, Sarju Patel, and Kenneth Woodhouse

Relationship between age and plasma esterases
Age Ageing 2001 30: 41-45; doi:10.1093/ageing/30.1.41 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

A. Mark Clarfield

Jogging into old age: a geriatrician's personal perspective
Age Ageing 2001 30: 46; doi:10.1093/ageing/30.1.46 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ann Ashburn, Emma Stack, Ruth M. Pickering, and Christopher D. Ward

A community-dwelling sample of people with Parkinson's disease: characteristics of fallers and non-fallers
Age Ageing 2001 30: 47-52; doi:10.1093/ageing/30.1.47 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Carol Brayne, Fiona E. Matthews, Magnus A. McGee, and Carol Jagger

Health and ill-health in the older population in England and Wales
Age Ageing 2001 30: 53-62; doi:10.1093/ageing/30.1.53 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Andrew Georgiou, Jonathan Potter, John C. Brocklehurst, Derek Lowe, and Michael Pearson

Measuring the quality of urinary continence care in long-term care facilities: an analysis of outcome indicators
Age Ageing 2001 30: 63-66; doi:10.1093/ageing/30.1.63 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Richard Grieve, Ruth Dundas, Roger Beech, and Charles Wolfe

The development and use of a method to compare the costs of acute stroke across Europe
Age Ageing 2001 30: 67-72; doi:10.1093/ageing/30.1.67 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Short report:

Sandra Duggan, Martin P. Eccles, Nicholas Steen, Samantha Jones, and Gary A. Ford

Management of older patients with hypertension in primary care: improvement on the rule of halves
Age Ageing 2001 30: 73-76; doi:10.1093/ageing/30.1.73 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

How to do it:

Melinda M. Gardner, David M. Buchner, M. Clare Robertson, and A. John Campbell

Practical implementation of an exercise-based falls prevention programme
Age Ageing 2001 30: 77-83; doi:10.1093/ageing/30.1.77 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Letters:

Mark Weatherall, Yves Guigoz, Morine Paintin, and Robert Mansourian

Protein–energy oral supplementation in malnourished nursing-home residents
Age Ageing 2001 30: 85; doi:10.1093/ageing/30.1.85 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Valerie M. Pomeroy, Brian Faragher, Ray C. Tallis, Janine M. Gregson, Michael J. Leathley, A. Peter Moore, Tudor L. Smith, Anil K. Sharma, and Caroline L. Watkins

Clinical measures: reliable or not?
Age Ageing 2001 30: 86-87; doi:10.1093/ageing/30.1.86 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

John M. Starr

Treating acquired haemophilia: an ethical conundrum
Age Ageing 2001 30: 87-88; doi:10.1093/ageing/30.1.87 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jugdeep K. Dhesi, Stephen H. Jackson, and Theresa Allain

Osteoporosis and the role of vitamin D and calcium
Age Ageing 2001 30: 88-89; doi:10.1093/ageing/30.1.88 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

James Kelly and Roger Lewis

Heparin thromboprophylaxis after acute stroke
Age Ageing 2001 30: 89-90; doi:10.1093/ageing/30.1.89 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Paul O'Mahony

Major aphthous ulcers induced by nicorandil
Age Ageing 2001 30: 90; doi:10.1093/ageing/30.1.90 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Thomas Vogel, Catherine Martin-Hunyadi, Damien Heitz, Georges Kaltenbach, Michèle Kiesmann, and Francis Kuntzmann

An eosinophilic pneumonia in a 93-year-old man
Age Ageing 2001 30: 90-91; doi:10.1093/ageing/30.1.90-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Wen-Chol Voon and Sheng-Hsiung Sheu

Diltiazem for nocturnal leg cramps
Age Ageing 2001 30: 91-92; doi:10.1093/ageing/30.1.91 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Nicolas Hagmann, Jean-Jacques Perrenoud, Gabriel Gold, François Herrmann, William MacGee, and Jean-Pierre Michel

Non-bacterial thrombotic endocarditis and cancer
Age Ageing 2001 30: 92-93; doi:10.1093/ageing/30.1.92 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Wilhelmina E. M. Schouten and Jan M. Sepers

Hyponatraemia associated with the use of a selective serotonin-reuptake inhibitor in an older patient
Age Ageing 2001 30: 94; doi:10.1093/ageing/30.1.94 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Book Reviews:

Jeremy Playfer, Alison Diack, and Jeremy R. Playfer

The Oxford Textbook of Geriatric Medicine, 2nd edition
Age Ageing 2001 30: 95-96; doi:10.1093/ageing/30.1.95 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Dorothy Robertson

Quality of Life in Parkinson's Disease
Age Ageing 2001 30: 96-97; doi:10.1093/ageing/30.1.96 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Graeme MacPhee

Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders: diagnosis and treatment guidelines for the practicing physician
Age Ageing 2001 30: 97; doi:10.1093/ageing/30.1.97 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Marianne James

Care of the Elderly
Age Ageing 2001 30: 97; doi:10.1093/ageing/30.1.97-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Brian Payne

Making Sense of the Private Finance Initiative. Developing public–private partnerships
Age Ageing 2001 30: 97-98; doi:10.1093/ageing/30.1.97-b [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Richard Walker

The Ageing and Development Report. Poverty, independence and the world's older people
Age Ageing 2001 30: 98-99; doi:10.1093/ageing/30.1.98 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Margot Gosney

Comprehensive Geriatric Oncology
Age Ageing 2001 30: 99; doi:10.1093/ageing/30.1.99 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Forthcoming meetings:

Forthcoming meetings
Age Ageing 2001 30: 100; doi:10.1093/ageing/30.1.100 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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