Age and Ageing

Editorial:

Antony Bayer

Death with dementia—the need for better care
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on January 13, 2006
Age Ageing 2006 35: 101-102; doi:10.1093/ageing/afj033 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Hot Topics:

Elizabeta B. Mukaetova-Ladinska

Towards living long and being healthy—the challenge for liaison psychiatric services for older adults
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on January 23, 2006
Age Ageing 2006 35: 103-105; doi:10.1093/ageing/afj049 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Merryn Gott

Sexual health and the new ageing
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on January 23, 2006
Age Ageing 2006 35: 106-107; doi:10.1093/ageing/afj050 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

News and Reviews:

News and Reviews
Age Ageing 2006 35: 108-109; doi:10.1093/ageing/afj023 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Research Papers:

Helle Rexbye, Inge Petersen, Mette Johansens, Louise Klitkou, Bernard Jeune, and Kaare Christensen

Influence of environmental factors on facial ageing
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on January 11, 2006
Age Ageing 2006 35: 110-115; doi:10.1093/ageing/afj031 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Rebekah Schiff, Peter Sacares, Jane Snook, Chakravarthi Rajkumar, and Christopher J. Bulpitt

Living wills and the Mental Capacity Act: a postal questionnaire survey of UK geriatricians
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on January 13, 2006
Age Ageing 2006 35: 116-121; doi:10.1093/ageing/afj035 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Claudio Pedone, Andrea Corsonello, and Raffaele Antonelli Incalzi for The GIFA Investigators

Estimating renal function in older people: a comparison of three formulas
Age Ageing 2006 35: 121-126; doi:10.1093/ageing/afj041 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Natalie Jane Bainbridge, Michael William John Davie, and Michael John Haddaway

Bone loss after stroke over 52 weeks at os calcis: influence of sex, mobility and relation to bone density at other sites
Age Ageing 2006 35: 127-132; doi:10.1093/ageing/afj045 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Robert van Seventer, Alesia Sadosky, Melanie Lucero, and Ellen Dukes

A cross-sectional survey of health state impairment and treatment patterns in patients with postherpetic neuralgia
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on January 23, 2006
Age Ageing 2006 35: 132-137; doi:10.1093/ageing/afj048 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jane Smith, Anne Forster, and John Young

Use of the ‘STRATIFY’ falls risk assessment in patients recovering from acute stroke
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on December 20, 2005
Age Ageing 2006 35: 138-143; doi:10.1093/ageing/afj027 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Rachel Mann, Yvonne Birks, Jill Hall, David Torgerson, and Ian Watt

Exploring the relationship between fear of falling and neuroticism: a cross-sectional study in community-dwelling women over 70
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on December 12, 2005
Age Ageing 2006 35: 143-147; doi:10.1093/ageing/afj013 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Donna Georgina Duncan, Susan Janet Beck, Kerenza Hood, and Antony Johansen

Using dietetic assistants to improve the outcome of hip fracture: a randomised controlled trial of nutritional support in an acute trauma ward
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on December 14, 2005
Age Ageing 2006 35: 148-153; doi:10.1093/ageing/afj011 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data] [Request Permissions]  

MRC Cognitive Function and Ageing Study, Agustin G. Yip, Carol Brayne, and Fiona E. Matthews

Risk factors for incident dementia in England and Wales: The Medical Research Council Cognitive Function and Ageing Study. A population-based nested case–control study
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on January 13, 2006
Age Ageing 2006 35: 154-160; doi:10.1093/ageing/afj030 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] supplementary data [Request Permissions]  

Marjolein E. de Vugt, Jelle Jolles, Liesbeth van Osch, Fred Stevens, Pauline Aalten, Richel Lousberg, and Frans R. J. Verhey

Cognitive functioning in spousal caregivers of dementia patients: findings from the prospective MAASBED study
Age Ageing 2006 35: 160-166; doi:10.1093/ageing/afj044 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Paolo Scocco, Giovanna Fantoni, and Federico Caon

Role of depressive and cognitive status in self-reported evaluation of quality of life in older people: comparing proxy and physician perspectives
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on December 20, 2005
Age Ageing 2006 35: 166-171; doi:10.1093/ageing/afj026 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data] [Request Permissions]  

Merryn Gott, Sarah Barnes, Chris Parker, Sheila Payne, David Seamark, Salah Gariballa, and Neil Small

Predictors of the quality of life of older people with heart failure recruited from primary care
Age Ageing 2006 35: 172-177; doi:10.1093/ageing/afj040 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Hugh Senior, Craig S. Anderson, Mei-hua Chen, Ron Haydon, Dinah Walker, Dean Fourie, Steven Lillis, and John Gommans

Management of hypertension in the oldest old: a study in primary care in New Zealand
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on January 23, 2006
Age Ageing 2006 35: 178-182; doi:10.1093/ageing/afj052 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Research Letters:

Derek Yiu, Zbigniew Gieroba, Karen Hall, Sharon Mackintosh, Andrew Russell, and Arduino A. Mangoni

An early drop in systolic blood pressure predicts a positive tilt table test in elderly patients with unexplained falls or syncope
Age Ageing 2006 35: 183-185; doi:10.1093/ageing/afj043 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Martin S. Dennis, Steff Lewis, and Gina M. Cranswick

Senior physicians’ estimates of the likely effects of feeding policies on outcomes prior to the completion of the FOOD trials
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on January 18, 2006
Age Ageing 2006 35: 185-187; doi:10.1093/ageing/afj028 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Elizabeth L. Sampson, Vivienne Gould, Dan Lee, and Martin R. Blanchard

Differences in care received by patients with and without dementia who died during acute hospital admission: a retrospective case note study
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on January 11, 2006
Age Ageing 2006 35: 187-189; doi:10.1093/ageing/afj025 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Zara Srapyan, Haroutune K. Armenian, and Varduhi Petrosyan

Health-related quality of life and depression among older people in Yerevan, Armenia: a comparative survey of retirement home and household residents aged 65 years old and over
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on January 18, 2006
Age Ageing 2006 35: 190-193; doi:10.1093/ageing/afj039 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Case Reports:

Saiju Jacob, Darren Martin, and Yusuf A. Rajabally

Juvenile myoclonic epilepsy in an elderly patient
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on January 13, 2006
Age Ageing 2006 35: 194-196; doi:10.1093/ageing/afj024 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Spyros P. Dourakis, Alexandra Alexopoulou, Nikolas Stamoulis, Apostolos Foutris, Helen Pandelidaki, and Athanasios J. Archimandritis

Acute Epstein–Barr virus infection in two elderly individuals
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on January 11, 2006
Age Ageing 2006 35: 196-198; doi:10.1093/ageing/afj021 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

M. Rose Lockwood, Jane Liddle, and Panagiota Kitsanta

Cytomegalovirus colitis—an unusual cause for diarrhoea in an elderly woman
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on January 18, 2006
Age Ageing 2006 35: 198-200; doi:10.1093/ageing/afj038 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Kin Wah Liu, Lok Kwan Dai, and Woo Jean

Metformin-related vitamin B12 deficiency
Age Ageing 2006 35: 200-201; doi:10.1093/ageing/afj042 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Kentaro Yamakawa, Kotaro Mizutani, Makio Takahashi, Masaru Matsui, and Takahiro Mezaki

Hyperostosis frontalis interna associated with hypogonadism in an elderly man
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on January 23, 2006
Age Ageing 2006 35: 202-203; doi:10.1093/ageing/afj051 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Letters to the Editor:

A. K. Exadaktylos, D. J. Buggy, G. Sclabas, and H. Zimmermann

Six month outcome of extremely old (95 years) trauma patients
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on January 16, 2006
Age Ageing 2006 35: 204-205; doi:10.1093/ageing/afj022 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Lesley Chapman

Another case of missing dentures
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on January 16, 2006
Age Ageing 2006 35: 205; doi:10.1093/ageing/afj034 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Teresa Alarcon, Juan Ignacio Gonzalez-Montalvo, Almudena Barcena, and Pilar Gotor

Post-fall syndrome: a matter to study in patients with hip fractures admitted to orthopaedic wards
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on January 18, 2006
Age Ageing 2006 35: 205-206; doi:10.1093/ageing/afj046 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Amit Arora and Pradip Singh

Re: Colonoscopy in the very elderly is safe and worthwhile
Age Ageing 2006 35: 206-207; doi:10.1093/ageing/afj047 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Book Reviews:

Linda Stephen

Epilepsy and Dementia in Older People: Does the Diagnosis Fit? A Review of the Medical Literature • Edited by Ashley Cochrane • University of Stirling, 2004. ISBN 1–85769–182–2. £15.00.
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on January 16, 2006
Age Ageing 2006 35: 208; doi:10.1093/ageing/afj029 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Antony Bayer

Dementia. 3rd Edition • Edited by Alistair Burns, John O’Brien and David Ames • London: Hodder Arnold, 2005. ISBN 0–340–812–036. £145.
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on January 11, 2006
Age Ageing 2006 35: 208; doi:10.1093/ageing/afj032 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Kalman Kafetz

Psychiatric Issues in Parkinson’s Disease. A Practical Guide • Edited by Matthew Menza and Laura Marsh • London and New York: Taylor & Francis, 2005. 340 pp, ISBN 1–84184–491–8. £55.00 • Dementia with Lewy Bodies and Parkinson’s Disease DementiaEdited by John O’Brien, Ian McKeith, David Ames and Edmond Chiu • London and New York: Taylor & Francis, 2005. 264 pp, ISBN 1–84184–395–4. £75.00
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on January 16, 2006
Age Ageing 2006 35: 209; doi:10.1093/ageing/afj037 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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