Age and Ageing

Editorials:

J. George and E. B. Mukaetova-Ladinska

Delirium and C-reactive protein
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on December 22, 2006
Age Ageing 2007 36: 115-116; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl153 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Vaughan Pearce and Iain Wilson

Parkinson's disease in Africa
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on January 25, 2007
Age Ageing 2007 36: 116-117; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl173 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

C. M. Morrison, N. Gainsborough, and C. Rajkumar

Warfarin versus aspirin in the elderly in primary prophylaxis for atrial fibrillation
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on January 25, 2007
Age Ageing 2007 36: 117-119; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl181 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Hot Topic:

Rowan H. Harwood, Robert Stewart, and Peter Bartlett

Safeguarding the rights of patients who lack capacity in general hospitals. Do the Bournewood proposals for England and Wales help or hinder?
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on January 19, 2007
Age Ageing 2007 36: 120-121; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl162 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Occasional Paper:

C. L. Dotchin, O. Msuya, and R. W. Walker

The challenge of Parkinson's disease management in Africa
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on January 29, 2007
Age Ageing 2007 36: 122-127; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl172 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

News and Reviews:

Diogenes

News and Reviews
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on January 25, 2007
Age Ageing 2007 36: 128-129; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl182 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Systematic Review:

Vicky Scott, Kristine Votova, Andria Scanlan, and Jacqueline Close

Multifactorial and functional mobility assessment tools for fall risk among older adults in community, home-support, long-term and acute care settings
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on February 10, 2007
Age Ageing 2007 36: 130-139; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl165 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Research Papers:

R. J. Minns, A.-M. Marsh, A. Chuck, and J. Todd

Are hip protectors correctly positioned in use?
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on February 1, 2007
Age Ageing 2007 36: 140-144; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl186 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Nancye M. Peel, Roderick J. McClure, and Joan K. Hendrikz

Psychosocial factors associated with fall-related hip fractures
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on January 27, 2007
Age Ageing 2007 36: 145-151; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl167 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Amar Rash, Tom Downes, Robin Portner, Wilf W. Yeo, Nicolette Morgan, and Kevin S. Channer

A randomised controlled trial of warfarin versus aspirin for stroke prevention in octogenarians with atrial fibrillation (WASPO)
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on December 15, 2006
Age Ageing 2007 36: 151-156; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl129 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Helen Park, Anthony Hildreth, Richard Thomson, and Janice O'Connell

Non-valvular atrial fibrillation and cognitive decline: a longitudinal cohort study
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on January 27, 2007
Age Ageing 2007 36: 157-163; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl164 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] Supplementary Data [Request Permissions]  

Barbera van Harten, Joukje Oosterman, Dino Muslimovic, Bert-Jan Potter van Loon, Philip Scheltens, and Henry C. Weinstein

Cognitive impairment and MRI correlates in the elderly patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus
Age Ageing 2007 36: 164-170; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl180 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

J. R. F. Gladman, R. G. Jones, K. Radford, E. Walker, and I. Rothera

Person-centred dementia services are feasible, but can they be sustained?
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on January 19, 2007
Age Ageing 2007 36: 171-176; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl161 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Saila Loikas, Pertti Koskinen, Kerttu Irjala, Minna Löppönen, Raimo Isoaho, Sirkka-Liisa Kivelä, and Tarja-Terttu Pelliniemi

Vitamin B12 deficiency in the aged: a population-based study
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on December 21, 2006
Age Ageing 2007 36: 177-183; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl150 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] Supplementary Data [Request Permissions]  

Lena Olai, Marianne Omne-Pontén, Lars Borgquist, and Kurt Svärdsudd

Prognosis assessment in stroke patients at discharge from hospital
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on December 18, 2006
Age Ageing 2007 36: 184-189; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl146 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] Supplementary Data [Request Permissions]  

Danielle Harari, Adrian Hopper, Jugdeep Dhesi, Gordana Babic-Illman, Linda Lockwood, and Finbarr Martin

Proactive care of older people undergoing surgery (‘POPS’): Designing, embedding, evaluating and funding a comprehensive geriatric assessment service for older elective surgical patients
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on January 27, 2007
Age Ageing 2007 36: 190-196; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl163 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Sabine Pleschberger

Dignity and the challenge of dying in nursing homes: the residents' view
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on January 4, 2007
Age Ageing 2007 36: 197-202; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl152 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Annlia Paganini-Hill, Claudia H. Kawas, and María M. Corrada

Type of alcohol consumed, changes in intake over time and mortality: the Leisure World Cohort Study
Age Ageing 2007 36: 203-209; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl184 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Marianne Falconer and Desmond O'Neill

Profiling disability within nursing homes: a census-based approach
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on February 12, 2007
Age Ageing 2007 36: 209-213; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl185 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Sheba Jarvis, Philip W. Ind, and Robert J. Shiner

Inhaled therapy in elderly COPD patients; time for re-evaluation?
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on January 31, 2007
Age Ageing 2007 36: 213-218; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl174 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Research Letters:

Natalie A. De Morton, Catherine T. Jones, Jennifer L. Keating, David J. Berlowitz, Lachlan MacGregor, Wen K. Lim, Bruce Jackson, and Caroline A. Brand

The effect of exercise on outcomes for hospitalised older acute medical patients: an individual patient data meta-analysis
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on December 20, 2006
Age Ageing 2007 36: 219-222; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl118 [Full Text] [PDF] Supplementary Data [Request Permissions]  

Alastair Macdonald, Dimitrios Adamis, Adrian Treloar, and Finbarr Martin

C-reactive protein levels predict the incidence of delirium and recovery from it
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on November 17, 2006
Age Ageing 2007 36: 222-225; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl121 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Kenneth Rockwood, David Jones, Yan Wang, Daniel Carver, and Arnold Mitnitski

Failure to complete performance-based measures is associated with poor health status and an increased risk of death
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on January 27, 2007
Age Ageing 2007 36: 225-228; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl160 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Clinical Reminders:

Abhay Kumar Das and Konstantin Schwarz

Mono-osteotic Paget's disease of the hand
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on January 24, 2007
Age Ageing 2007 36: 229; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl166 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Joseph Martin Alisky

Lorazepam-reversible catatonia in the elderly can mimic dementia, coma and stroke
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on January 25, 2007
Age Ageing 2007 36: 229; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl168 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Letters to the Editor:

Louise Pack, Richard Fuller, Godfrey Pell, and Trudie Roberts

Training in geriatric medicine in UK undergraduate medical schools
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on January 17, 2007
Age Ageing 2007 36: 230; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl156 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Peter Crome

Reply
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on January 24, 2007
Age Ageing 2007 36: 231; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl157 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Abraham I. Varghese and George I. Varughese

Low serum vitamin B₁₂ in older people: the role of alcohol and thyroid status
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on January 17, 2007
Age Ageing 2007 36: 231-232; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl158 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Harold Hin and Robert Clarke

Reply
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on January 17, 2007
Age Ageing 2007 36: 232; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl159 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Henry Zeimer

Vitamin D supplementation and the prevention of fractures and falls
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on January 25, 2007
Age Ageing 2007 36: 232-233; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl176 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Malcolm Law, Joan Morris, and Heather Withers

Reply
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on January 25, 2007
Age Ageing 2007 36: 233; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl177 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Dolors Capellà and Xavier Vidal

Comparative analysis of mortality in patients with Alzheimer's disease treated with donepezil and galantamine
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on January 25, 2007
Age Ageing 2007 36: 234; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl169 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

R. Parikh and R. Wong

Video phone diagnosis of ‘funny turns’
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on January 25, 2007
Age Ageing 2007 36: 234; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl171 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Secundino López-Pousa, Josep Garre-Olmo, and Joan Vilalta-Franch

Reply
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on January 25, 2007
Age Ageing 2007 36: 235; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl170 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Book Reviews:

David Jolley

Standards in Dementia Care • Edited by Alistair Burns • Taylor and Francis, ISBN 1841845264, £95
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on December 21, 2006
Age Ageing 2007 36: 236-237; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl151 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Nicholas Coni

The Experience of Retirement • Edited by Robert S. Weiss • Cornell University Press, 2005. ISBN 978-0-8014-7252-7, $18.75
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on December 21, 2006
Age Ageing 2007 36: 236; doi:10.1093/ageing/afl154 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Corrigendum:

Corrigendum
Age Ageing 2007 36: 238; doi:10.1093/ageing/afm012 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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