Age and Ageing

Editorials:

A. John Campbell

Purity, pragmatism and hip protector pads
Age Ageing 2001 30: 431-432; doi:10.1093/ageing/30.6.431 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Andrea Steiner

Intermediate care: more than ‘a nursing thing’
Age Ageing 2001 30: 433-435; doi:10.1093/ageing/30.6.433 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Marcel G. M. Olde Rikkert and Willibrord H. L. Hoefnagels

Nutrition in the terminal stages of life in nursing-home patients
Age Ageing 2001 30: 436-438; doi:10.1093/ageing/30.6.436 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Peter Lansley

The promise and challenge of providing assistive technology to older people
Age Ageing 2001 30: 439-440; doi:10.1093/ageing/30.6.439 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Commentary:

Andrew T. Elder

Can we manage more acutely ill elderly patients in the community?
Age Ageing 2001 30: 441-443; doi:10.1093/ageing/30.6.441 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Announcement:

Announcement
Age Ageing 2001 30: 444; doi:10.1093/ageing/30.6.444 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

News and reviews:

Diogenes

News and reviews
Age Ageing 2001 30: 445-446; doi:10.1093/ageing/30.6.445 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Notes on the biology of ageing:

Leonardo

The silence of the genes
Age Ageing 2001 30: 447-448; doi:10.1093/ageing/30.6.447 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Reviews:

Charlotte E. Ruse and Stuart G. Parker

Molecular genetics and age-related disease
Age Ageing 2001 30: 449-454; doi:10.1093/ageing/30.6.449 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Frank G. Miskelly

Assistive technology in elderly care
Age Ageing 2001 30: 455-458; doi:10.1093/ageing/30.6.455 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Research papers:

Bregje D. Onwuteaka-Philipsen, H. Roeline W. Pasman, Aline Kruit, Agnes van der Heide, Miel W. Ribbe, and Gerrit van der Wal

Withholding or withdrawing artificial administration of food and fluids in nursing-home patients
Age Ageing 2001 30: 459-465; doi:10.1093/ageing/30.6.459 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Opinder Sahota, Kay Gaynor, Rowan H. Harwood, and David J. Hosking

Hypovitaminosis D and ‘functional hypoparathyroidism’—the NoNoF (Nottingham Neck of Femur) study
Age Ageing 2001 30: 467-472; doi:10.1093/ageing/30.6.467 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Richard Fuller, Nigel Dudley, and Jon Blacktop

Risk communication and older people—understanding of probability and risk information by medical inpatients aged 75 years and older
Age Ageing 2001 30: 473-476; doi:10.1093/ageing/30.6.473 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ian D. Cameron, Jennifer Venman, Susan E. Kurrle, Keri Lockwood, Carol Birks, Robert G. Cumming, Susan Quine, and Guy Bashford

Hip protectors in aged-care facilities: a randomized trial of use by individual higher-risk residents
Age Ageing 2001 30: 477-481; doi:10.1093/ageing/30.6.477 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Peter Griffiths, Ruth Harris, Gerald Richardson, Nancy Hallett, Shelley Heard, and Jenifer Wilson-Barnett

Substitution of a nursing-led inpatient unit for acute services: randomized controlled trial of outcomes and cost of nursing-led intermediate care
Age Ageing 2001 30: 483-488; doi:10.1093/ageing/30.6.483 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Pia Laukkanen, Pertti Karppi, Eino Heikkinen, and Markku Kauppinen

Coping with activities of daily living in different care settings
Age Ageing 2001 30: 489-494; doi:10.1093/ageing/30.6.489 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

James K. Cooper and Thomas Kohlmann

Factors associated with health status of older Americans
Age Ageing 2001 30: 495-501; doi:10.1093/ageing/30.6.495 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Nia I. Edwards and Dee Jones

The prevalence of faecal incontinence in older people living at home
Age Ageing 2001 30: 503-507; doi:10.1093/ageing/30.6.503 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Catherine Sauvaget, Carol Jagger, and Antony J. Arthur

Active and cognitive impairment-free life expectancies: results from the Melton Mowbray 75+ health checks
Age Ageing 2001 30: 509-515; doi:10.1093/ageing/30.6.509 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ulrich Freudenstein, Antony J. Arthur, Ruth J. Matthews, and Carol Jagger

Community surveys of late-life depression: who are the non-responders?
Age Ageing 2001 30: 517-521; doi:10.1093/ageing/30.6.517 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Case report:

Andrew S. Granger

Ginkgo biloba precipitating epileptic seizures
Age Ageing 2001 30: 523-525; doi:10.1093/ageing/30.6.523 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Letters:

Shinji Teramoto, Takeo Ishii, Takeshi Matsuse, Yoshinosuke Fukuchi, David G. Smithard, Hilary A. Smith, Steven H. Lee, and Martin J. Connolly

Use of a new tool and detection of aspiration in decision-making for safe feeding after stroke
Age Ageing 2001 30: 527-530; doi:10.1093/ageing/30.6.527 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Yitshal N. Berner

The contribution of obesity to dyspnoea in elderly people
Age Ageing 2001 30: 530; doi:10.1093/ageing/30.6.530 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Alison Hames and Hilary A. Wynne

Unlicensed and off-label drug use in elderly people
Age Ageing 2001 30: 530-531; doi:10.1093/ageing/30.6.530-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Edmund Dunstan

Modified Admission Case-Mix for the Elderly
Age Ageing 2001 30: 531-532; doi:10.1093/ageing/30.6.531 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Catherine M. Sackley, Jennifer Gatt, and Marion F. Walker

The use of rehabilitation services by private nursing homes in Nottingham
Age Ageing 2001 30: 532-533; doi:10.1093/ageing/30.6.532 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Anita Bansal and John Young

A survey of community training and experience for specialist registrars in elderly-care medicine
Age Ageing 2001 30: 533-534; doi:10.1093/ageing/30.6.533 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Book Reviews:

Michael Lye

The Science of Geriatrics
Age Ageing 2001 30: 535; doi:10.1093/ageing/30.6.535 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Tom Dening

Dementia
Age Ageing 2001 30: 535-536; doi:10.1093/ageing/30.6.535-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Nigel Dudley

Stroke at your Fingertips: the comprehensive and medically accurate manual about stroke and how to deal with it
Age Ageing 2001 30: 536; doi:10.1093/ageing/30.6.536 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ian G. McKeith

Textbook of Geriatric Neuropsychiatry
Age Ageing 2001 30: 536-537; doi:10.1093/ageing/30.6.536-a [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Forthcoming meetings:

Forthcoming meetings
Age Ageing 2001 30: 538; doi:10.1093/ageing/30.6.538 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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