Age and Ageing

Editorial

Joaquim Cerejeira and Elizabeta B. Mukaetova-Ladinska

Treating dementia: will the NICE guidance 2006 change our clinical practice?
Age Ageing 2007 36: 605-606; doi:10.1093/ageing/afm144 [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Occasional Paper

Colin Powel

Whither geriatrics? Do we need another Marjory Warren?
Age Ageing 2007 36: 607-610; doi:10.1093/ageing/afm115 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

News and Reviews

Diogenes

News and Reviews
Age Ageing 2007 36: 611-612; doi:10.1093/ageing/afm142 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Review

Get checked abstract John McManus, Rohan Pathansali, Rob Stewart, Alastair Macdonald, and Stephen Jackson

Delirium post-stroke
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on October 25, 2007
Age Ageing 2007 36: 613-618; doi:10.1093/ageing/afm140 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Systematic Review

Get checked abstract Meng-jie Dong, Bin Peng, Xiang-tong Lin, Jun Zhao, Yan-rong Zhou, and Run-hua Wang

The prevalence of dementia in the People's Republic of China: a systematic analysis of 1980–2004 studies
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on October 25, 2007
Age Ageing 2007 36: 619-624; doi:10.1093/ageing/afm128 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Commentary

Afina W. Lemstra, Edo Richard, and Willem A. van Gool

Cholinesterase inhibitors in dementia: yes, no, or maybe?
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on September 19, 2007
Age Ageing 2007 36: 625-627; doi:10.1093/ageing/afm117 [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Research Papers

Get checked abstract Fiona Smith and Martin Orrell

Does the patient-centred approach help identify the needs of older people attending primary care?
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on October 25, 2007
Age Ageing 2007 36: 628-631; doi:10.1093/ageing/afm131 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract P. J. Barry, P. Gallagher, C. Ryan, and D. O'mahony

START (screening tool to alert doctors to the right treatment)—an evidence-based screening tool to detect prescribing omissions in elderly patients
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on September 19, 2007
Age Ageing 2007 36: 632-638; doi:10.1093/ageing/afm118 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Iain A. Lang, Neil E. Rice, Robert B. Wallace, Jack M. Guralnik, and David Melzer

Smoking cessation and transition into retirement: analyses from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on September 28, 2007
Age Ageing 2007 36: 638-643; doi:10.1093/ageing/afm119 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract DImitrios Adamis, Adrian Treloar, Fai-Zaza Darwiche, Norman Gregson, Alastair J. D. Macdonald, and Finbarr C. Martin

Associations of delirium with in-hospital and in 6-months mortality in elderly medical inpatients
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on July 28, 2007
Age Ageing 2007 36: 644-649; doi:10.1093/ageing/afm094 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Suzanne L. Tyas, David A. Snowdon, Mark F. Desrosiers, Kathryn P. Riley, and William R. Markesbery

Healthy ageing in the Nun Study: definition and neuropathologic correlates
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on September 28, 2007
Age Ageing 2007 36: 650-655; doi:10.1093/ageing/afm120 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract A. John Campbell and M. Clare Robertson

Rethinking individual and community fall prevention strategies: a meta-regression comparing single and multifactorial interventions
Age Ageing 2007 36: 656-662; doi:10.1093/ageing/afm122 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Richard Trigg, Roy W. Jones, and Suzanne M. Skevington

Can people with mild to moderate dementia provide reliable answers about their quality of life?
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on June 22, 2007
Age Ageing 2007 36: 663-669; doi:10.1093/ageing/afm077 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract D. Harari, F. C. Martin, A. Buttery, S. O'Neill, and A. Hopper

The older persons' assessment and liaison team ‘OPAL’: evaluation of comprehensive geriatric assessment in acute medical inpatients
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on July 26, 2007
Age Ageing 2007 36: 670-675; doi:10.1093/ageing/afm089 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Matthew F. Giles and Peter M. Rothwell

Substantial underestimation of the need for outpatient services for TIA and minor stroke
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on July 26, 2007
Age Ageing 2007 36: 676-680; doi:10.1093/ageing/afm088 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Research Letters

Christophe Luthy, Christine Cedraschi, François Herrmann, Michel Kossovsky, Eliane Perrin, Pierre Chopard, Jean-Pierre Michel, and Anne-Françoise Allaz

Appropriateness of hospital use: comparison between elderly patients' point of view and a structured questionnaire
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on August 2, 2007
Age Ageing 2007 36: 681-684; doi:10.1093/ageing/afm086 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

A. J. Larner

Addenbrooke's Cognitive Examination-Revised (ACE-R) in day-to-day clinical practice
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on September 19, 2007
Age Ageing 2007 36: 685-686; doi:10.1093/ageing/afm112 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

K. Klouche, E. Ferreira Da Mota, R. Durant, L. Amigues, P. Corne, O. Jonquet, and J. J. Beraud

Hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis reactivity and dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate plasma concentrations in the critically ill elderly
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on October 25, 2007
Age Ageing 2007 36: 686-689; doi:10.1093/ageing/afm113 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Edmund J. Lamb, Michelle C. Webb, and Shelagh E O'Riordan

Using the modification of diet in renal disease (MDRD) and Cockcroft and Gault equations to estimate glomerular filtration rate (GFR) in older people
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on September 19, 2007
Age Ageing 2007 36: 689-692; doi:10.1093/ageing/afm121 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Allison Elizabeth DeVan and Hirofumi Tanaka

Declines in ten-pin bowling performance with advancing age
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on October 16, 2007
Age Ageing 2007 36: 693-694; doi:10.1093/ageing/afm129 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Case Reports

Get checked abstract Anil Kumar and Domnick D. Costa

Insidious posterior circulation stroke with rapid deterioration due to vertebral giant cell arteritis
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on October 25, 2007
Age Ageing 2007 36: 695-697; doi:10.1093/ageing/afm136 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Lucia Possamai and William Stephen Waring

Acute myopathy in a patient with oesophageal stricture
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on October 25, 2007
Age Ageing 2007 36: 698-699; doi:10.1093/ageing/afm138 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Frank S. Hong, Rabindra N. Sinnappu, and Wen Kwang Lim

Primary progressive aphasia: a case report
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on October 25, 2007
Age Ageing 2007 36: 700-702; doi:10.1093/ageing/afm139 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Clinical Reminder

Terry Quinn

Lost for words—a forgotten differential of dysarthria
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on September 19, 2007
Age Ageing 2007 36: 703; doi:10.1093/ageing/afm114 [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Letters to the Editor

V. M. Vardon and Caroline Efthimiou

Palliative care ward for the elderly
Age Ageing 2007 36: 704; doi:10.1093/ageing/afm165 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

F. Twomey, D. K. McDowell, and G. D. Corcoran

Reply
Age Ageing 2007 36: 704-705; doi:10.1093/ageing/afm166 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Adam L. Gordon, Adrian G. Blundell, John R. F. Gladman, and Tahir Masud

Undergraduate education in geriatrics within the United Kingdom
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on October 23, 2007
Age Ageing 2007 36: 705; doi:10.1093/ageing/afm126 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Book reviews

Frank Miskelly

Gerontechnology: Growing Old in a Technological Society • Edited by Gari Lesnoff-Caravaglia
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on October 22, 2007
Age Ageing 2007 36: 706; doi:10.1093/ageing/afm125 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Kalman Kafetz

... and a Time to Die. How American Hospitals Shape the End of Life • By Sharon R Kaufman
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on October 16, 2007
Age Ageing 2007 36: 706; doi:10.1093/ageing/afm124 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Clarissa Murdoch

Oxford Handbook of Geriatric Medicine • By L K Bowker, J D Price and S C Smith
Age Ageing 2007 36: 706-707; doi:10.1093/ageing/afm123 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Website Review

Taj Hasan

Website Review
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on October 25, 2007
Age Ageing 2007 36: 708; doi:10.1093/ageing/afm145 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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