Age and Ageing

Changes to the Editorial Team

Gordon Wilcock

Changes to the Editorial Team
Age Ageing 2004 33: 325-326; doi:10.1093/ageing/afh149 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Editorials

Deborah Sturdy

Consultant Nurses: changing the future?
Age Ageing 2004 33: 327-328; doi:10.1093/ageing/afh143 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

David Oliver

Prevention of falls in hospital inpatients. Agendas for research and practice
Age Ageing 2004 33: 328-330; doi:10.1093/ageing/afh145 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Roy W. Jones

Dementia, postcode prescribing and NICE
Age Ageing 2004 33: 331-332; doi:10.1093/ageing/afh155 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

News and Reviews

News and Reviews
Age Ageing 2004 33: 333-334; doi:10.1093/ageing/afh101 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Commentary

Hwee-Huan Tan, Marion E. T. McMurdo, and Andrew D. Morris

Evidence based medicine, guidelines and common sense
Age Ageing 2004 33: 335-337; doi:10.1093/ageing/afh116 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Occasional Review

Get checked abstract Gunnar Akner

Geriatric medicine in Sweden: a study of the organisation, staffing and care production in 2000–2001
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on May 10, 2004
Age Ageing 2004 33: 338-341; doi:10.1093/ageing/afh115 [Abstract] [PDF] [Supplementary data] [Request Permissions]  

Research Papers

Get checked abstract John K. Petrella, L. Stephen Miller, and M. Elaine Cress

Leg extensor power, cognition, and functional performance in independent and marginally dependent older adults
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on April 13, 2004
Age Ageing 2004 33: 342-348; doi:10.1093/ageing/afh055 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Andrew J. Coull, Valerie H. Taylor, Rob Elton, Peter S. Murdoch, and Allister D. Hargreaves

A randomised controlled trial of senior Lay Health Mentoring in older people with ischaemic heart disease: The Braveheart Project
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on May 10, 2004
Age Ageing 2004 33: 348-354; doi:10.1093/ageing/afh098 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Linda B. Hassing, Scott M. Hofer, Sven E. Nilsson, Stig Berg, Nancy L. Pedersen, Gerald McClearn, and Boo Johansson

Comorbid type 2 diabetes mellitus and hypertension exacerbates cognitive decline: evidence from a longitudinal study
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on May 10, 2004
Age Ageing 2004 33: 355-361; doi:10.1093/ageing/afh100 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Joseph Kwan, Peter Hand, Martin Dennis, and Peter Sandercock

Effects of introducing an integrated care pathway in an acute stroke unit
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on March 26, 2004
Age Ageing 2004 33: 362-367; doi:10.1093/ageing/afh104 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Kim Delbaere, Geert Crombez, Guy Vanderstraeten, Tine Willems, and Dirk Cambier

Fear-related avoidance of activities, falls and physical frailty. A prospective community-based cohort study
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on March 26, 2004
Age Ageing 2004 33: 368-373; doi:10.1093/ageing/afh106 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Elizabeth P. Tolmie, Moira M. B. Mungall, Greig Louden, Grace M. Lindsay, and Allan Gaw

Understanding why older people participate in clinical trials: the experience of the Scottish PROSPER participants
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on May 19, 2004
Age Ageing 2004 33: 374-378; doi:10.1093/ageing/afh109 [Abstract] [PDF] [Supplementary data] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Annette Erlangsen, Bernard Jeune, Unni Bille-Brahe, and James W. Vaupel

Loss of partner and suicide risks among oldest old: a population-based register study
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on May 19, 2004
Age Ageing 2004 33: 378-383; doi:10.1093/ageing/afh128 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Sarah A. Fleming, Holly Blake, John R. F. Gladman, Elizabeth Hart, Mark Lymbery, Michael E. Dewey, Helen McCloughry, Marion Walker, and Paul Miller

A randomised controlled trial of a care home rehabilitation service to reduce long-term institutionalisation for elderly people
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on May 19, 2004
Age Ageing 2004 33: 384-390; doi:10.1093/ageing/afh126 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Frances Healey, Andrew Monro, Angela Cockram, Vicki Adams, and David Heseltine

Using targeted risk factor reduction to prevent falls in older in-patients: a randomised controlled trial
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on May 19, 2004
Age Ageing 2004 33: 390-395; doi:10.1093/ageing/afh130 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Short Reports

Get checked abstract Seena Fazel, Tony Hope, Ian O'Donnell, and Robin Jacoby

Unmet treatment needs of older prisoners: a primary care survey
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on May 19, 2004
Age Ageing 2004 33: 396-398; doi:10.1093/ageing/afh113 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Research Letters

Marion E. T. McMurdo and John R. Harper

Institutional falls: quality not quantity
Age Ageing 2004 33: 399-400; doi:10.1093/ageing/afh127 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Michael Vassallo, Rachel Stockdale, Charlie Wilkinson, Naveed Malik, Jagdish Sharma, Roger Baker, and Stephen Allen

Acceptability of fall prevention measures for hospital inpatients
Age Ageing 2004 33: 400-401; doi:10.1093/ageing/afh138 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Alberto Pilotto, Marilisa Franceschi, Gioacchino Leandro, Maria Grazia Longo, Francesco Perri, and Carlo Scarcelli

Helicobacter pylori infection and the risk of gastro-duodenal damage in symptomatic elderly chronic low-dose aspirin users: effect of antisecretory drugs
Age Ageing 2004 33: 402-404; doi:10.1093/ageing/afh099 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Case Reports

Get checked abstract Bhaskar Mandal, Michael Steward, Sudhir Singh, and Hywel Jones

Ciprofloxacin-induced toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN) in a nonagerian: a case report
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on April 28, 2004
Age Ageing 2004 33: 405-406; doi:10.1093/ageing/afh088 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Lisa Youngman and Susie Harris

BIPP madness; an iatrogenic cause of acute confusion
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on April 13, 2004
Age Ageing 2004 33: 406-407; doi:10.1093/ageing/afh103 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract David Ashton, Peter Kim, Neil Griffiths, and Roy Beran

Cognitive decline with chronic meningitis secondary to a COX-2 inhibitor
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on May 19, 2004
Age Ageing 2004 33: 408-409; doi:10.1093/ageing/afh112 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Pedro Iglesias, Lucía Pérez Macho, and Juan J. Díez

Resolution of macroprolactinoma-induced symptomatic hydrocephalus following cabergoline therapy
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on May 10, 2004
Age Ageing 2004 33: 410-412; doi:10.1093/ageing/afh108 [Abstract] [PDF] [Supplementary data] [Request Permissions]  

Letters to the Editor

Wolfgang von Renteln-Kruse and Tom Krause

When do elderly in-hospital patients fall?
Age Ageing 2004 33: 413; doi:10.1093/ageing/afh114 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

David Bourne

The dilemma of disclosing the diagnosis to an adult with dementia
Age Ageing 2004 33: 413-414; doi:10.1093/ageing/afh110 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Martin Fahy, Gill Livingston, and Zuzana Walker

Reply
Age Ageing 2004 33: 414-415; doi:10.1093/ageing/afh111 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Keyvan Bidad and Richard Harries-Jones

Nitrofurantoin lung injury
Age Ageing 2004 33: 414-415; doi:10.1093/ageing/afh131 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

José Félix Martí Massó

Antipsychotic prescribing in older people. Which drug?
Age Ageing 2004 33: 415; doi:10.1093/ageing/afh134 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Book Reviews

Stephen Weeks

Mental Wellness in Aging – Strengths-Based Approaches Judah L. Ronch and Joseph A. Goldfield Baltimore, MD: Health Professions Press, 2003. 386 pp, ISBN 1-878812-69-6. £36.95
Age Ageing 2004 33: 416; doi:10.1093/ageing/afh105 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jeremy R. Playfer

Oxford Textbook of Medicine – 4th Edition Edited by D. A. Warrell, T. M. Cox, J. D. Firth and E. J. Benz, Jr Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. 4574 pp, ISBN 019-262922-0. £275.00 (hardback)
Age Ageing 2004 33: 416; doi:10.1093/ageing/afh119 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jeremy R. Playfer

The Oxford Textbook of Geriatric Medicine – 2nd Edition 2003 Edited by J. Grimley Evans, T. Franklin Williams, B. Lynn Beattie, J.-P. Michel and G. K. Wilcock Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003. 1280 pp, ISBN 010-852809-4, £75.00
Age Ageing 2004 33: 416-417; doi:10.1093/ageing/afh120 [PDF] [Supplementary data] [Request Permissions]  

Jolyon Meara

Investigating Neurological Disease. Epidemiology for Clinical Neurology Edited by Albert Hofman and Richard Mayeux Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. 313 pp, ISBN 0-521-0000. £40
Age Ageing 2004 33: 417; doi:10.1093/ageing/afh124 [PDF] [Supplementary data] [Request Permissions]  

Web Review

Jolyon Meara

Statistical help and support on the web
Age Ageing 2004 33: 418; doi:10.1093/ageing/afh144 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Clinical Update

Abebaw Mengistu Yohannes and Martin J. Connolly

Current initiatives in the management of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: the NICE Guidelines and the recent evidence base
Age Ageing 2004 33: 419-421; doi:10.1093/ageing/afh137 [PDF] [Supplementary data] [Supplementary data] [Request Permissions]  

For Debate...

Get checked abstract Grant Gibson, Alison Timlin, Stephen Curran, and John Wattis

The scope for qualitative methods in research and clinical trials in dementia
Age Ageing 2004 33: 422-426; doi:10.1093/ageing/afh136 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Erratum

Renuka Visvanathan, Robert Penhall, and Ian Chapman

Nutritional screening of older people in a sub-acute care facility in Australia and its relation to discharge outcomes
Age Ageing 2004 33: 427; doi:10.1093/ageing/afh176 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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