Age and Ageing

Editorials:

Kenneth Rockwood and Ruth Hubbard

Frailty and the geriatrician
Age Ageing 2004 33: 429-430; doi:10.1093/ageing/afh153 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

David Black

Not because they are old—revisited
Age Ageing 2004 33: 430-432; doi:10.1093/ageing/afh208 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Pamela S. Melding

Who is losing the language? Persistent pain in home-dwelling elders
Age Ageing 2004 33: 432-434; doi:10.1093/ageing/afh186 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Anirban Choudhury and Gregory Y. H. Lip

Left ventricular systolic dysfunction and atrial fibrillation in older people in the community: the need for identification, as well as appropriate management
Age Ageing 2004 33: 434-436; doi:10.1093/ageing/afh185 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

News and Reviews:

News and reviews
Age Ageing 2004 33: 437-439; doi:10.1093/ageing/afh184 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Commentary:

Sharon Anderson and Nancy J. Marlett

Communication in stroke: the overlooked rehabilitation tool
Age Ageing 2004 33: 440-443; doi:10.1093/ageing/afh163 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Occasional Paper:

Philip J.-H. Poi, Duncan R. Forsyth, and Daniel K. Y. Chan

Services for older people in Malaysia: issues and challenges
Age Ageing 2004 33: 444-446; doi:10.1093/ageing/afh182 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Review:

Chris Parker and Ian Philp

Screening for cognitive impairment among older people in black and minority ethnic groups
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on June 24, 2004
Age Ageing 2004 33: 447-452; doi:10.1093/ageing/afh135 [Abstract] [PDF] [Supplementary data ] [Request Permissions]  

Systematic Review:

Esther M. J. Steultjens, Joost Dekker, Lex M. Bouter, Sandra Jellema, Erica B. Bakker, and Cornelia H. M. van den Ende

Occupational therapy for community dwelling elderly people: a systematic review
Age Ageing 2004 33: 453-460; doi:10.1093/ageing/afh174 [Abstract] [PDF] [Supplementary data] [Request Permissions]  

Research Papers:

Stephen Turner, Steve Iliffe, Murna Downs, Jane Wilcock, Michelle Bryans, Enid Levin, John Keady, and Ronan O'Carroll

General practitioners' knowledge, confidence and attitudes in the diagnosis and management of dementia
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on July 22, 2004
Age Ageing 2004 33: 461-467; doi:10.1093/ageing/afh140 [Abstract] [PDF] [Supplementary data] [Request Permissions]  

Miles D. Witham, Neil D. Gillespie, and Allan D. Struthers

Age is not a significant risk factor for failed trial of beta-blocker therapy in older patients with chronic heart failure
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on June 24, 2004
Age Ageing 2004 33: 467-472; doi:10.1093/ageing/afh150 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Robert Baldwin, Helen Pratt, Hannah Goring, Alison Marriott, and Chris Roberts

Does a nurse-led mental health liaison service for older people reduce psychiatric morbidity in acute general medical wards? A randomised controlled trial
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on June 24, 2004
Age Ageing 2004 33: 472-478; doi:10.1093/ageing/afh154 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ruth E. Hubbard, M. Sinead O'Mahony, Eleri Cross, Alun Morgan, Helen Hortop, Rhian E. Morse, and Lynne Topham

The ageing of the population: implications for multidisciplinary care in hospital
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on August 3, 2004
Age Ageing 2004 33: 479-482; doi:10.1093/ageing/afh164 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Leigh Martin Riby, Andrew Meikle, and Cheryl Glover

The effects of age, glucose ingestion and gluco-regulatory control on episodic memory
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on August 3, 2004
Age Ageing 2004 33: 483-487; doi:10.1093/ageing/afh173 [Abstract] [PDF] [Supplementary data] [Request Permissions]  

Shu F. Ho, M. Sinead O'Mahony, John A. Steward, Michael L. Burr, and Maurice Buchalter

Left ventricular systolic dysfunction and atrial fibrillation in older people in the community – a need for screening?
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on July 22, 2004
Age Ageing 2004 33: 488-492; doi:10.1093/ageing/afh181 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Dipankar Dutta, Mira Bannerjee, and Tara Chambers

Is tube feeding associated with altered arterial oxygen saturation in stroke patients?
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on August 3, 2004
Age Ageing 2004 33: 493-496; doi:10.1093/ageing/afh183 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Pekka Mäntyselkä, Sirpa Hartikainen, Kirsti Louhivuori-Laako, and Raimo Sulkava

Effects of dementia on perceived daily pain in home-dwelling elderly people: a population-based study
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on July 22, 2004
Age Ageing 2004 33: 496-499; doi:10.1093/ageing/afh165 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Research Letters:

Cara Usher, Kathleen Bennett, and John Feely

Evidence for a gender and age inequality in the prescribing of preventative cardiovascular therapies to the elderly in primary care
Age Ageing 2004 33: 500-502; doi:10.1093/ageing/afh129 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

James A. Barrett, Valerie B. Owens, Vicky Little, Pauline Weir, Ruth Plant, David T. Shakespeare, Graeme Sangster, and Melanie Maxwell

Stroke mortality datasets
Age Ageing 2004 33: 502-504; doi:10.1093/ageing/afh139 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Claire Hulme, Andrew F. Long, Rosie Kneafsey, and Gaynor Reid

Using the EQ-5D to assess health-related quality of life in older people
Age Ageing 2004 33: 504-507; doi:10.1093/ageing/afh178 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Lionel S. Lim and Paul Y. Takahashi

Osteoporosis intervention in men with hip fracture
Age Ageing 2004 33: 507-508; doi:10.1093/ageing/afh206 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Case Reports:

Zeev Arinzon, Peisakh Alexander, and Yitshal Berner

Hydrochlorothiazide induced hepato-cholestatic liver injury
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on July 22, 2004
Age Ageing 2004 33: 509-510; doi:10.1093/ageing/afh148 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Luke D. Wheeler, Rajeka Lazarus, Jared Torkington, M. Sinead O'Mahony, and Kenneth W. Woodhouse

Lesson of the week: perils of pessaries
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on July 22, 2004
Age Ageing 2004 33: 510-511; doi:10.1093/ageing/afh170 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Anna L. Rich and Peter Berman

Cutaneous angiosarcoma presenting as an unusual facial bruise
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on July 22, 2004
Age Ageing 2004 33: 512-514; doi:10.1093/ageing/afh171 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Shoaib Faruqi, Gemma Redmond, Pusbar Ram, Val B. Owens, Graeme Sangster, and James A. Barrett

Hemihyperhidrosis in cerebral infarction
Age Ageing 2004 33: 514-515; doi:10.1093/ageing/afh179 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Letters to the Editor:

Paul L. J. Dautzenberg, Leonie J. Mulder, Marcel G. M. Olde Rikkert, Cees J. Wouters, and Anton J. M. Loonen

Adding rivastigmine to antipsychotics in the treatment of a chronic delirium
Age Ageing 2004 33: 516-521; doi:10.1093/ageing/afh125 [PDF] [Supplementary data] [Request Permissions]  

Renzo Rozzini, Tony Sabatini, and Marco Trabucchi

A silent ageism in access to critical care
Age Ageing 2004 33: 517; doi:10.1093/ageing/afh146 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Partha Das, Sanjay Suman, and Peter Phillips

Blood pressure lowering in acute stroke – consider the carotids
Age Ageing 2004 33: 518; doi:10.1093/ageing/afh156 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Thompson G. Robinson and John F. Potter

Reply
Age Ageing 2004 33: 518; doi:10.1093/ageing/afh157 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jonathan Cooper and Morgan Feely

The difficulty in diagnosing non-convulsive status epilepticus during routine medical practice
Age Ageing 2004 33: 518-519; doi:10.1093/ageing/afh161 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

José L. Fernández-Torre

Reply
Age Ageing 2004 33: 519-520; doi:10.1093/ageing/afh162 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Somnuek Sungkanuparph, Weerawat Manosuthi, Sasisopin Kiertiburanakul, and Asda Vibhagool

Clinical experience with high success rate of antiretroviral therapy in elderly HIV-infected patients
Age Ageing 2004 33: 520-521; doi:10.1093/ageing/afh152 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Dirk O. Stichtenoth and Jürgen C. Frölich

Comment on Jüni P, Dieppe P. Older people should NOT be prescribed ‘coxibs’ in place of conventional NSAIDs
Age Ageing 2004 33: 521; doi:10.1093/ageing/afh207 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Book Reviews:

Peter Hobson

Quick Cognitive Screening for Clinicians Edited by Kenneth Shulman and Anthony Feinstein London: Martin Dunitz, 2003. 176 pp, ISBN 1-84184-239-7. £19.95.
Age Ageing 2004 33: 522; doi:10.1093/ageing/afh141 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Graeme Macphee

Surgical Treatment of Parkinson's Disease and Other Movement Disorders Edited by Daniel Tarsy, Jerrold L. Vitek and Andres M. Lozano Totowa, NJ: Humana Press, 2003. 352 pp, ISBN 0-89603-921-8. £135.00
Age Ageing 2004 33: 522-523; doi:10.1093/ageing/afh142 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Website Review:

Jolyon Meara

Osteoporosis
Age Ageing 2004 33: 524; doi:10.1093/ageing/afh151 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

For Debate...:

Simon P. Conroy and Tony Luxton

Continuing care – should geriatricians re-engage?
Age Ageing 2004 33: 525-527; doi:10.1093/ageing/afh172 [Abstract] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

A. Colebatch

A memorable patient
Age Ageing 2004 33: 528; doi:10.1093/ageing/afh117 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

A. N. G. Clark

Excess help in the home?
Age Ageing 2004 33: 528; doi:10.1093/ageing/afh132 [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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