Age and Ageing

Editorials:

T. J. Aspray and R. M. Francis

Fracture prevention in care home residents: is vitamin D supplementation enough?
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on June 8, 2006
Age Ageing 2006 35: 455-456; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl043 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Abebaw Mengistu Yohannes, R. C. Baldwin, and M. J. Connolly

Depression and anxiety in elderly patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on April 25, 2006
Age Ageing 2006 35: 457-459; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl011 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Suzanne Kite

Palliative care for older people
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on July 14, 2006
Age Ageing 2006 35: 459-460; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl069 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

News and Reviews:

Bill MacLennan

News and Reviews
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on June 24, 2006
Age Ageing 2006 35: 461-462; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl068 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Review:

Karen N. Barnett, Marion E. T. McMurdo, Simon A. Ogston, Andrew D. Morris, and Josie M. M. Evans

Mortality in people diagnosed with type 2 diabetes at an older age: a systematic review
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on May 5, 2006
Age Ageing 2006 35: 463-468; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl019 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Systematic Review:

Jenni Burt and Rosalind Raine

The effect of age on referral to and use of specialist palliative care services in adult cancer patients: a systematic review
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on June 3, 2006
Age Ageing 2006 35: 469-476; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl001 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Research Papers:

Kathryn Getliffe and Teresa Newton

Catheter-associated urinary tract infection in primary and community health care
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on June 13, 2006
Age Ageing 2006 35: 477-481; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl052 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Malcolm Law, Heather Withers, Joan Morris, and Frazer Anderson

Vitamin D supplementation and the prevention of fractures and falls: results of a randomised trial in elderly people in residential accommodation
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on April 26, 2006
Age Ageing 2006 35: 482-486; doi:10.1093/ageing/afj080 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

David J. Stott, Amanda K. Buttery, Adam Bowman, Rona Agnew, Katriona Burrow, Sarah L. Mitchell, Scott Ramsay, and Paul V. Knight

Comprehensive geriatric assessment and home-based rehabilitation for elderly people with a history of recurrent non-elective hospital admissions
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on June 13, 2006
Age Ageing 2006 35: 487-491; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl049 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Nancye May Peel, Roderick John McClure, and Joan Katherine Hendrikz

Health-protective behaviours and risk of fall-related hip fractures: a population-based case–control study
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on June 13, 2006
Age Ageing 2006 35: 491-497; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl056 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Crispin Jenkinson, Catherine Heffernan, Helen Doll, and Ray Fitzpatrick

The Parkinson’s Disease Questionnaire (PDQ-39): evidence for a method of imputing missing data
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on June 13, 2006
Age Ageing 2006 35: 497-502; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl055 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] supplementary data [Request Permissions]  

Niels Peter Nielsen and Elisabeth H. Wiig

Alzheimer’s Quick Test cognitive screening criteria for West African speakers of Krio
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on June 28, 2006
Age Ageing 2006 35: 503-507; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl058 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Hanna-Mari Alanen, Harriet Finne-Soveri, Anja Noro, and Esa Leinonen

Use of antipsychotics among nonagenarian residents in long-term institutional care in Finland
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on June 28, 2006
Age Ageing 2006 35: 508-513; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl065 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Robert Hammerman-Rozenberg, Jeremy M. Jacobs, Daniel Azoulay, and Jochanan Stessman

Aspirin prophylaxis and the prevalence of anaemia
Age Ageing 2006 35: 514-517; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl066 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Research Letters:

Thomas Walsh, David Clinch, Aine Costelloe, Alan Moore, Tina Sheehy, Michael Watts, Catherine A. Bryant, Jacqueline Close, Juan Gonzalez, Emma Ouldred, Rohan Pathansali, Cameron G. Swift, Declan Lyons, and Stephen H. D. Jackson

Carotid sinus massage – How safe is it?
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on July 4, 2006
Age Ageing 2006 35: 518-520; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl057 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Terry P. Haines, Keith D. Hill, Kim L. Bennell, and Richard H. Osborne

Hip protector use amongst older hospital inpatients: compliance and functional consequences
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on May 5, 2006
Age Ageing 2006 35: 520-523; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl020 [Full Text] [PDF] supplementary data [Request Permissions]  

Duncan Robert Petty, Allan House, Peter Knapp, Theo Raynor, and Arnold Zermansky

Prevalence, duration and indications for prescribing of antidepressants in primary care
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on May 11, 2006
Age Ageing 2006 35: 523-526; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl023 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Darryl B. Rolfson, Sumit R. Majumdar, Ross T. Tsuyuki, Adeel Tahir, and Kenneth Rockwood

Validity and reliability of the Edmonton Frail Scale
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on June 6, 2006
Age Ageing 2006 35: 526-529; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl041 [Full Text] [PDF] Supplementary Data [Request Permissions]  

Chie Wei Fan, Davis Coakley, J. Bernard Walsh, and Conal J. Cunningham

Postal questionnaire survey: the use of sleeping with the head of the bed tilted upright for treatment of orthostatic hypotension in clinical practice
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on July 4, 2006
Age Ageing 2006 35: 529-532; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl073 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Lisa Bartram, Peter Crome, Adrian McGrath, Oliver J. Corrado, Stephen C. Allen, and Ilana Crome

Survey of training in geriatric medicine in UK undergraduate medical schools
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on June 21, 2006
Age Ageing 2006 35: 533-535; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl053 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Case Reports:

Edmund James Dunstan and John B. Winer

Autoimmune limbic encephalitis causing fits, rapidly progressive confusion and hyponatraemia
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on June 8, 2006
Age Ageing 2006 35: 536-537; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl045 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Esther-Lee Marcus, Yehezkel Caine, Kasem Hamdan, and Menachem Gross

Nasogastric tube syndrome: a life-threatening laryngeal obstruction in a 72-year-old patient
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on June 5, 2006
Age Ageing 2006 35: 538-539; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl042 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Belinda Louise Kessel

A case of hedonistic homeostatic dysregulation
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on June 24, 2006
Age Ageing 2006 35: 540-541; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl064 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Clinical Reminders:

Sanjeevikumar Meenakshisundaram

Myasthenia gravis in older patients
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on July 10, 2006
Age Ageing 2006 35: 542; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl040 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

J. Beunk, M. Lambert, and T. Mets

The purple urine bag syndrome
Age Ageing 2006 35: 542; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl091 [Full Text] [PDF] supplementary data [Request Permissions]  

Letters to the Editor:

Abhay K. Das, Lopa Das, and Graham P. Mulley

Awareness of living wills in the United Kingdom
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on July 5, 2006
Age Ageing 2006 35: 543; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl046 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Graham Sutton and Diarmuid O’Shea

The role of selective decontamination of the digestive tract in acute stroke
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on July 5, 2006
Age Ageing 2006 35: 543-544; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl050 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Margot Gosney

Reply
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on June 13, 2006
Age Ageing 2006 35: 544; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl051 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Catherine E. Hewitt and David J. Torgerson

Using dietetic assistants to improve the outcome of hip fracture
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on June 24, 2006
Age Ageing 2006 35: 544-545; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl060 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Donna Duncan

Reply
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on June 28, 2006
Age Ageing 2006 35: 545; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl061 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

David A. Elphick, Heather L. Elphick, Lynne Smith, David Da Costa, and Stuart A. Riley

Does gastro-oesophageal reflux following PEG placement in stroke patients predict a poorer outcome?
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on June 24, 2006
Age Ageing 2006 35: 545-546; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl071 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Renzo Rozzini, Tony Sabatini, and Marco Trabucchi

Non-invasive ventilation for respiratory failure in elderly patients
Age Ageing 2006 35: 546-547; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl092 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Book reviews:

Anthea Lehmann

Home Care Enteral Feeding • Edited by H. Lochs and D. R. Thomas • Karger, Basel. ISBN 3-8055-7850-4
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on July 5, 2006
Age Ageing 2006 35: 548; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl044 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jolyon Meara

Atypical Parkinsonian Disorders—Clinical and Research Aspects • Edited by Irene Litvan • Human Press, 2005. ISBN 1-588-29-331-9. $175.00
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on July 14, 2006
Age Ageing 2006 35: 548-549; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl076 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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