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Editor's note

Editor's note
Age Ageing 2008 37: 1-2; doi:10.1093/ageing/afm184 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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R. M. Francis

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Age Ageing 2008 37: 3; doi:10.1093/ageing/afm192 [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Editorials

Jan Dequeker

Medicine and the artist
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on November 10, 2007
Age Ageing 2008 37: 4-5; doi:10.1093/ageing/afm154 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

T. J. Aspray and R. M. Francis

Vitamin D deficiency—can old age learn from childhood?
Age Ageing 2008 37: 6-7; doi:10.1093/ageing/afm183 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

News and Reviews

Diogenes

News and Reviews
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on December 3, 2007
Age Ageing 2008 37: 8-9; doi:10.1093/ageing/afm155 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Commentary

Get checked abstract A. H. Laybourne, S. Biggs, and F. C. Martin

Falls exercise interventions and reduced falls rate: Always in the patient's interest?
Age Ageing 2008 37: 10-13; doi:10.1093/ageing/afm190 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Review

Get checked abstract Ian Thompson

Clostridium difficile-associated disease: update and focus on non-antibiotic strategies
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on November 22, 2007
Age Ageing 2008 37: 14-18; doi:10.1093/ageing/afm159 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Systematic Review

Research Papers

Get checked abstract Mikko Björkman, Antti Sorva, Juha Risteli, and Reijo Tilvis

Vitamin D supplementation has minor effects on parathyroid hormone and bone turnover markers in vitamin D–deficient bedridden older patients
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on October 25, 2007
Age Ageing 2008 37: 25-31; doi:10.1093/ageing/afm141 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Nancy E. Mayo, Lyne Nadeau, Sara Ahmed, Carole White, Roland Grad, Allen Huang, Mark J. Yaffe, and Sharon Wood-Dauphinee

Bridging the gap: the effectiveness of teaming a stroke coordinator with patient's personal physician on the outcome of stroke
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on November 14, 2007
Age Ageing 2008 37: 32-38; doi:10.1093/ageing/afm133 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Adrian Wagg, Jonathan Potter, Penny Peel, Penny Irwin, Derek Lowe, and Michael Pearson

National audit of continence care for older people: management of urinary incontinence
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on November 21, 2007
Age Ageing 2008 37: 39-44; doi:10.1093/ageing/afm163 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Gertrudis I. J. M. Kempen, Lucy Yardley, Jolanda C. M. Van Haastregt, G. A. Rixt Zijlstra, Nina Beyer, Klaus Hauer, and Chris Todd

The Short FES-I: a shortened version of the falls efficacy scale-international to assess fear of falling
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on November 20, 2007
Age Ageing 2008 37: 45-50; doi:10.1093/ageing/afm157 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Lynn Martin, Jeff W. Poss, John P. Hirdes, Richard N. Jones, Michael J. Stones, and Brant E. Fries

Predictors of a new depression diagnosis among older adults admitted to complex continuing care: implications for the depression rating scale (DRS)
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on November 21, 2007
Age Ageing 2008 37: 51-56; doi:10.1093/ageing/afm162 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Kathryn Peri, Ngaire Kerse, Elizabeth Robinson, Matthew Parsons, John Parsons, and N. Latham

Does functionally based activity make a difference to health status and mobility? A randomised controlled trial in residential care facilities (The Promoting Independent Living Study; PILS)
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on October 25, 2007
Age Ageing 2008 37: 57-63; doi:10.1093/ageing/afm135 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Tracey Tsang, Rhonda Orr, Paul Lam, Elizabeth Comino, and Maria Fiatarone Singh

Effects of Tai Chi on glucose homeostasis and insulin sensitivity in older adults with type 2 diabetes: a randomised double-blind sham-exercise-controlled trial
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on October 25, 2007
Age Ageing 2008 37: 64-71; doi:10.1093/ageing/afm127 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Anita Atwal, Anne Mcintyre, Christine Craik, and Jacki Hunt

Older adults and carers' perceptions of pre-discharge occupational therapy home visits in acute care
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on October 30, 2007
Age Ageing 2008 37: 72-76; doi:10.1093/ageing/afm137 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Chin-Hsiao Tseng, Choon-Khim Chong, Ching-Ping Tseng, and Tong-Yuan Tai

The association between urinary albumin excretion and ankle-brachial index in elderly Taiwanese patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on November 14, 2007
Age Ageing 2008 37: 77-82; doi:10.1093/ageing/afm148 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Dina Zekry, François R. Herrmann, Raphael Grandjean, Marie-Pierre Meynet, Jean-Pierre Michel, Gabriel Gold, and Karl-Heinz Krause

Demented versus non-demented very old inpatients: the same comorbidities but poorer functional and nutritional status
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on October 30, 2007
Age Ageing 2008 37: 83-89; doi:10.1093/ageing/afm132 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Kaare Dyre Palnum, Palle Petersen, Henrik Toft Sørensen, Anette Ingeman, Jan Mainz, Paul Bartels, and Søren Paaske Johnsen

Older patients with acute stroke in Denmark: quality of care and short-term mortality. A nationwide follow-up study
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on October 25, 2007
Age Ageing 2008 37: 90-95; doi:10.1093/ageing/afm134 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Paul F. Gallagher, Pat J. Barry, Cristin Ryan, Irene Hartigan, and Denis O'Mahony

Inappropriate prescribing in an acutely ill population of elderly patients as determined by Beers' Criteria
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on October 11, 2007
Age Ageing 2008 37: 96-101; doi:10.1093/ageing/afm116 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Research Letters

Phillip Greenspan, Grete Heinz, and James L. Hargrove

Lives of the artists: differences in longevity between old master sculptors and painters
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on December 3, 2007
Age Ageing 2008 37: 102-104; doi:10.1093/ageing/afm172 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Francesc Formiga, Assumpta Ferrer, Enric Duaso, and Ramón Pujol

Predictors of two-year mortality in nonagenarians with severe functional impairment at baseline: the NonaSantfeliu study
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on October 22, 2007
Age Ageing 2008 37: 104-107; doi:10.1093/ageing/afm130 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Elena Meseguer, Julien Labreuche, Jeam Marc Olivot, Halim Abboud, Philippa C. Lavallee, Olivier Simon, Lucie Cabrejo, Amaya Echeverria, Isabelle F. Klein, Mikael Mazighi, and Pierre Amarenco

Determinants of outcome and safety of intravenous rt-PA therapy in the very old: a clinical registry study and systematic review
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on December 3, 2007
Age Ageing 2008 37: 107-111; doi:10.1093/ageing/afm177 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

John M. Starr, Alison Pattie, Lawrence J. Whalley, and Ian J. Deary

Predictors of tooth loss in the 1921 Lothian Birth Cohort
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on November 21, 2007
Age Ageing 2008 37: 111-114; doi:10.1093/ageing/afm160 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Case Reports

Get checked abstract Marianne Falconer, D. Rónán Collins, John Feeney, and William C. Torreggiani

Mounier-Kuhn syndrome in an older patient
Age Ageing 2008 37: 115-116; doi:10.1093/ageing/afm167 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract A. Weidmann and K. Harkins

What lies beneath? Assessment of leg ulcers during acute hospital admission
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on November 9, 2007
Age Ageing 2008 37: 117-118; doi:10.1093/ageing/afm149 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Clinical Reminder

Atul Kusanale, Henry Boardman, and Hiro Khoshnaw

Tongue necrosis: a rare presentation of temporal arteritis
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on December 3, 2007
Age Ageing 2008 37: 119; doi:10.1093/ageing/afm181 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Letters to the Editor

Ilana Crome and Peter Crome

Moderate alcohol consumption in older adults is associated with better cognition and well-being than abstinence
Age Ageing 2008 37: 120-121; doi:10.1093/ageing/afm150 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Iain A. Lang and David Melzer

Reply
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on November 7, 2007
Age Ageing 2008 37: 121; doi:10.1093/ageing/afm156 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

William B. Grant and Cedric F. Garland

The role of vitamin D₃ in preventing infections
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on December 3, 2007
Age Ageing 2008 37: 121-122; doi:10.1093/ageing/afm182 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Salvatore Speciale, Giuseppe Bellelli, Fabio Guerini, and Marco Trabucchi

C-reactive protein levels and delirium in a rehabilitation ward
Age Ageing 2008 37: 122-123; doi:10.1093/ageing/afm176 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Susan White, Eamonn Eeles, Sinead O'Mahony, and Antony Bayer

Delirium and C-reactive protein
Age Ageing 2008 37: 123-124; doi:10.1093/ageing/afm178 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

A J D Macdonald

Reply
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on December 3, 2007
Age Ageing 2008 37: 124; doi:10.1093/ageing/afm175 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Book reviews

Vanessa Lawrence and Sube Banerjee

Ethnicity and the Dementias • Edited by G. Yeo and D. Gallagher-Thompson
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on November 20, 2007
Age Ageing 2008 37: 125; doi:10.1093/ageing/afm164 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jolyon Meara

Bioimaging in Neurodegeneration • Editors: Patricia Broderick, David Rahni and Edwin Kolodny
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on November 10, 2007
Age Ageing 2008 37: 125-126; doi:10.1093/ageing/afm147 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

John Hindle

Neurocognitive Disorders in Ageing • D. Kempler
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on November 21, 2007
Age Ageing 2008 37: 126; doi:10.1093/ageing/afm174 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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