Age and Ageing

Editorials:

G. Iain Carpenter

Accuracy, validity and reliability in assessment and in evaluation of services for older people: the role of the interRAI MDS assessment system
Age Ageing 2006 35: 327-329; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl038 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

John P. Hirdes

Addressing the health needs of frail elderly people: Ontario’s experience with an integrated health information system
Age Ageing 2006 35: 329-331; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl036 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Hot Topic:

Lary C. Walker and Rebecca F. Rosen

Alzheimer therapeutics—what after the cholinesterase inhibitors?
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on April 27, 2006
Age Ageing 2006 35: 332-335; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl009 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Commentaries:

N. Tabet

Acetylcholinesterase inhibitors for Alzheimer’s disease: anti-inflammatories in acetylcholine clothing!
Age Ageing 2006 35: 336-338; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl027 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

John Young and Jan Stevenson

Intermediate care in England: where next?
Age Ageing 2006 35: 339-341; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl026 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

News and Reviews:

News and Reviews
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on May 3, 2006
Age Ageing 2006 35: 342-343; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl010 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Review:

Bhomraj Thanvi, Nelson Lo, and Tom Robinson

Essential tremor—the most common movement disorder in older people
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on April 26, 2006
Age Ageing 2006 35: 344-349; doi:10.1093/ageing/afj072 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] supplementary data [Request Permissions]  

Systematic Review:

Najma Siddiqi, Allan O. House, and John D. Holmes

Occurrence and outcome of delirium in medical in-patients: a systematic literature review
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on April 28, 2006
Age Ageing 2006 35: 350-364; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl005 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] supplementary data [Request Permissions]  

Research Papers:

Secundino López-Pousa, Josep Garre Olmo, Joan Vilalta Franch, Antoni Turon Estrada, Olga Soler Cors, Imma Pericot Nierga, and Esther Gelada-Batlle

Comparative analysis of mortality in patients with Alzheimer’s disease treated with donepezil or galantamine
Age Ageing 2006 35: 365-371; doi:10.1093/ageing/afj083 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Raj T. S. Kumar, Anand D. Pandyan, and Anil K. Sharma

Biomechanical measurement of post-stroke spasticity
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on May 4, 2006
Age Ageing 2006 35: 371-375; doi:10.1093/ageing/afj084 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Stuart G. Parker, Dorothea Bechinger-English, Carol Jagger, Nicola Spiers, and James Lindesay

Factors affecting completion of the SF-36 in older people
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on April 25, 2006
Age Ageing 2006 35: 376-381; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl003 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] supplementary data [Request Permissions]  

S. Ayis, R. Gooberman-Hill, A. Bowling, and S. Ebrahim

Predicting catastrophic decline in mobility among older people
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on April 25, 2006
Age Ageing 2006 35: 382-387; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl004 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Joseph F. Audette, Young Soo Jin, Renee Newcomer, Lauren Stein, Gillian Duncan, and Walter R. Frontera

Tai Chi versus brisk walking in elderly women
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on April 19, 2006
Age Ageing 2006 35: 388-393; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl006 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] supplementary data [Request Permissions]  

Helen C. Roberts, Zoe M. Hemsley, Gwen Thomas, Philip Meakins, Jackie Powell, Judy Robison, Ian Gove, Gill Turner, and Avan Aihie Sayer

Nurse-led implementation of the single assessment process in primary care: a descriptive feasibility study
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on April 26, 2006
Age Ageing 2006 35: 394-398; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl008 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] supplementary data [Request Permissions]  

Phyo K. Myint, Sarah L. Vowler, Oliver Redmayne, and Robert A. Fulcher

Utilisation of diagnostic computerised tomography imaging and immediate clinical outcomes in older people with stroke before and after introduction of the National Service Framework for older people. A comparative study of hospital-based stroke registry data (1997–2003): Norfolk experience
Age Ageing 2006 35: 399-403; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl030 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

John Snowdon, Susan Day, and Wesley Baker

Audits of medication use in Sydney nursing homes
Age Ageing 2006 35: 403-408; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl037 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Avan Aihie Sayer, Holly E. Syddall, Helen J. Martin, Elaine M. Dennison, Helen C. Roberts, and Cyrus Cooper

Is grip strength associated with health-related quality of life? Findings from the Hertfordshire Cohort Study
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on May 11, 2006
Age Ageing 2006 35: 409-415; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl024 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Harold Hin, Robert Clarke, Paul Sherliker, Wale Atoyebi, Kathleen Emmens, Jacqueline Birks, Joern Schneede, Per M. Ueland, Ebba Nexo, John Scott, Anne Molloy, Michael Donaghy, Chris Frost, and John Grimley Evans

Clinical relevance of low serum vitamin B12 concentrations in older people: the Banbury B12 study
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on May 18, 2006
Age Ageing 2006 35: 416-422; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl033 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] supplementary data [Request Permissions]  

Claudia Voelcker-Rehage and Klaus Willimczik

Motor plasticity in a juggling task in older adults—a developmental study
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on May 11, 2006
Age Ageing 2006 35: 422-427; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl025 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Kristin R. Krueger, Robert S. Wilson, Raj C. Shah, Yuxiao Tang, and David A. Bennett

Personality and incident disability in older persons
Age Ageing 2006 35: 428-433; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl028 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Research Letters:

Pálmi V. Jónsson, Harriet Finne-Soveri, Anna B. Jensdóttir, Gunnar Ljunggren, Gösta Bucht, Else V. Grue, Anja Noro, Jan Björnson, Elizabeth Jonsén, and Marianne Schroll

Co-morbidity and functional limitation in older patients underreported in medical records in Nordic Acute Care Hospitals when compared with the MDS-AC instrument
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on March 15, 2006
Age Ageing 2006 35: 434-438; doi:10.1093/ageing/afj060 [Full Text] [PDF] supplementary data [Request Permissions]  

Beatrice J. Edwards, Craig B. Langman, Kathy Martinez, Marjorie Johnson, Marie Laure Mille, and Mark W. Rogers

Women with wrist fractures are at increased risk for future fractures because of both skeletal and non-skeletal risk factors
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on May 11, 2006
Age Ageing 2006 35: 438-441; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl018 [Full Text] [PDF] supplementary data [Request Permissions]  

Lorna Mackenzie, Ian Andrew James, Rachel Morse, Elizabeta Mukaetova-Ladinska, and F. Katharina Reichelt

A pilot study on the use of dolls for people with dementia
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on April 25, 2006
Age Ageing 2006 35: 441-444; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl007 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Martin Orrell, Claudia Cooper, and Sally Braithwaite

Do carers’ needs assessments make a difference? Results from the Forget me not study
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on May 18, 2006
Age Ageing 2006 35: 444-445; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl032 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Case Report:

Brian J. Carey

Atishoo! Atishoo! We all fall down!
Age Ageing 2006 35: 446-447; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl031 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Clinical Reminders:

Abhay Kumar Das and Vivekanand Patil

Adult pyloric stenosis—a forgotten entity
Age Ageing 2006 35: 448; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl021 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Abraham Joseph, Tarun Kothari, and Sundar Venkatesh

Niacin toxicity: a rare presentation mimicking malignancy
Age Ageing 2006 35: 448; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl029 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Letters to the Editor:

H. Burkhardt, E. Karaminejad, and R. Gladisch

A short performance test can help to predict adherence to self-administration of insulin in elderly patients with diabetes
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on April 25, 2006
Age Ageing 2006 35: 449-450; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl014 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Sudip Sikdar

Mental capacity assessments and discharge decisions
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on April 25, 2006
Age Ageing 2006 35: 450; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl015 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

J. Dickens, M. Jones, and A. Johansen

Falls definition—reliability of patients’ own reports
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on April 26, 2006
Age Ageing 2006 35: 450-451; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl016 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

E. Barrow and Angus Watson

Nicorandil-associated anal ulceration
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on May 12, 2006
Age Ageing 2006 35: 451; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl022 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Francesc Formiga and Ramón Pujol

Differences in end of life care in patients who died with dementia during acute hospital admissions
Age Ageing 2006 35: 451-452; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl034 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Elizabeth L. Sampson

Reply
Age Ageing 2006 35: 452; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl035 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Book reviews:

Rosaire Gray

Cardiovascular Disease in the Elderly • Edited by Gary Gerstenblith. • Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, USA, 2005. ISBN 1-58829-282-7. $135.00.
Age Ageing 2006 35: 453; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl012 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Indu Koshi and C. Rajkumar

Hypertension in the Elderly • Edited by L. Michael Prisant. • Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, USA 2005. ISBN 1-58829-197-9. $135.00.
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on April 25, 2006
Age Ageing 2006 35: 453; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl013 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Kalman Kafetz

Geriatric Medicine for Old Age Psychiatrists • Edited by A. Burns, M. Horan, J. Clague and G. McLean. • Taylor & Francis, 2006. ISBN 1-84184-393-8. £49.99.
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on May 15, 2006
Age Ageing 2006 35: 453-454; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl017 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Corrigendum:

Corrigendum
Age Ageing 2006 35: 454; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl039 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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