Age and Ageing

Editor's view

R. M. Francis

Editor's view
Age Ageing 2008 37: 359; doi:10.1093/ageing/afn130 [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Editorials

Matt Thomas

Are we counting the right thing?
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on May 31, 2008
Age Ageing 2008 37: 360-361; doi:10.1093/ageing/afn117 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

S. V. Getov, R. W. Lee, F. Dockery, and C. Rajkumar

Androgens, ageing and vascular function
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on May 30, 2008
Age Ageing 2008 37: 361-363; doi:10.1093/ageing/afn125 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Miles D. Witham, Deepa Sumukadas, and Marion E. T. McMurdo

ACE inhibitors for sarcopenia—as good as exercise training?
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on May 30, 2008
Age Ageing 2008 37: 363-365; doi:10.1093/ageing/afn124 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

News and Reviews

Diogenes

News and Reviews
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on May 16, 2008
Age Ageing 2008 37: 366-367; doi:10.1093/ageing/afn113 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Systematic Review

Get checked abstract Frances Healey, David Oliver, Alisoun Milne, and James B. Connelly

The effect of bedrails on falls and injury: a systematic review of clinical studies
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on May 20, 2008
Age Ageing 2008 37: 368-378; doi:10.1093/ageing/afn112 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data] [Request Permissions]  

Research Papers

Get checked abstract Cara Tannenbaum, Judith Brouillette, and Jacques Corcos

Rating improvements in urinary incontinence: do patients and their physicians agree?
Age Ageing 2008 37: 379-383; doi:10.1093/ageing/afn108 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Scott W. Arnett, Jennifer H. Laity, Subodh K. Agrawal, and M. Elaine Cress

Aerobic reserve and physical functional performance in older adults
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on February 20, 2008
Age Ageing 2008 37: 384-389; doi:10.1093/ageing/afn022 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Rosemary J. Woolley, John B. Young, John R. Green, and Dawn J. Brooker

The feasibility of care mapping to improve care for physically ill older people in hospital
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on March 22, 2008
Age Ageing 2008 37: 390-395; doi:10.1093/ageing/afn055 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Iain A. Lang, David J. Llewellyn, Kenneth M. Langa, Robert B. Wallace, and David Melzer

Neighbourhood deprivation and incident mobility disability in older adults
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on May 16, 2008
Age Ageing 2008 37: 403-410; doi:10.1093/ageing/afn092 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Steve W. Parry, Janine C. Gray, Julia L. Newton, Pamela Reeve, Diarmuid O'shea, and Rose Anne Kenny

‘Front-loaded’ head-up tilt table testing: validation of a rapid first line nitrate-provoked tilt protocol for the diagnosis of vasovagal syncope
Age Ageing 2008 37: 411-415; doi:10.1093/ageing/afn098 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Isabelle Lanièce, Pascal Couturier, Moustapha Dramé, Gaëtan Gavazzi, Stéphanie Lehman, Damien Jolly, Thierry Voisin, Pierre Olivier Lang, Nicolas Jovenin, Jean Bernard Gauvain, Jean-Luc Novella, Olivier Saint-Jean, and François Blanchard

Incidence and main factors associated with early unplanned hospital readmission among French medical inpatients aged 75 and over admitted through emergency units
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on May 16, 2008
Age Ageing 2008 37: 416-422; doi:10.1093/ageing/afn093 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Te-Pin Ng, Lei Feng, Mathew Niti, and Keng Bee Yap

Albumin, haemoglobin, BMI and cognitive performance in older adults
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on May 20, 2008
Age Ageing 2008 37: 423-429; doi:10.1093/ageing/afn102 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Anne Tiedemann, Hiroyuki Shimada, Catherine Sherrington, Susan Murray, and Stephen Lord

The comparative ability of eight functional mobility tests for predicting falls in community-dwelling older people
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on May 16, 2008
Age Ageing 2008 37: 430-435; doi:10.1093/ageing/afn100 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Baukje Dijkstra, Wiebren Zijlstra, Erik Scherder, and Yvo Kamsma

Detection of walking periods and number of steps in older adults and patients with Parkinson's disease: accuracy of a pedometer and an accelerometry-based method
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on May 16, 2008
Age Ageing 2008 37: 436-441; doi:10.1093/ageing/afn097 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Ellinor Nordin, Nina Lindelöf, Erik Rosendahl, Jane Jensen, and Lillemor Lundin-olsson

Prognostic validity of the Timed Up-and-Go test, a modified Get-Up-and-Go test, staff's global judgement and fall history in evaluating fall risk in residential care facilities
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on May 30, 2008
Age Ageing 2008 37: 442-448; doi:10.1093/ageing/afn101 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Shilpa Dogra, Brad A. Meisner, and Joseph Baker

Psychosocial predictors of physical activity in older aged asthmatics
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on May 30, 2008
Age Ageing 2008 37: 449-454; doi:10.1093/ageing/afn114 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Research Letters

Bronagh Walsh, Helen C. Roberts, Peter G. Nicholls, and Valerie A Lattimer

Trends in hospital inpatient episodes for signs, symptoms and ill-defined conditions: observational study of older people's hospital episodes in England, 1995–2003
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on May 16, 2008
Age Ageing 2008 37: 455-458; doi:10.1093/ageing/afn099 [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Hiroyuki Umegaki, Takahiko Kawamura, Nanaka Mogi, Toshitaka Umemura, Akio Kanai, and Takahisa Sano

Glucose control levels, ischaemic brain lesions, and hyperinsulinaemia were associated with cognitive dysfunction in diabetic elderly
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on March 12, 2008
Age Ageing 2008 37: 458-461; doi:10.1093/ageing/afn051 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Aapo Lehtonen, Risto Huupponen, Jaakko Tuomilehto, Sirkku Lavonius, Seija Arve, Hannu Isoaho, Ilpo Huhtaniemi, and Reijo Tilvis

Serum testosterone but not leptin predicts mortality in elderly men
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on March 12, 2008
Age Ageing 2008 37: 461-464; doi:10.1093/ageing/afn048 [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Natasha A. Koloski, Nadine Smith, Nancy A. Pachana, and Annette Dobson

Performance of the Goldberg Anxiety and Depression Scale in older women
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on May 5, 2008
Age Ageing 2008 37: 464-467; doi:10.1093/ageing/afn091 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Skanda Jayaratnam, Angela Kim Ling Khoo, and David Basic

Rapidly progressive Alzheimer's disease and elevated 14-3-3 proteins in cerebrospinal fluid
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on May 5, 2008
Age Ageing 2008 37: 467-469; doi:10.1093/ageing/afn094 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Mitsue Meguro, Mari Kasai, Kyoko Akanuma, Hiroshi Ishii, Satoshi Yamaguchi, and Kenichi Meguro

Comprehensive approach of donepezil and psychosocial interventions on cognitive function and quality of life for Alzheimer's disease: the Osaki-Tajiri Project
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on May 31, 2008
Age Ageing 2008 37: 469-473; doi:10.1093/ageing/afn107 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Weerasak Muangpaisan, Janice L. Hinkle, Martin Westwood, James Kennedy, and Alastair M. Buchan

Stroke in the very old: clinical presentations and outcomes
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on April 29, 2008
Age Ageing 2008 37: 473-475; doi:10.1093/ageing/afn096 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Paul James Whelan, Fiona Gaughran, Rebecca Walwyn, Kate Chatterton, and Alastair Macdonald

‘Do you feel that your life is empty?’ The clinical utility of a one-off question for detecting depression in elderly care home residents
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on March 17, 2008
Age Ageing 2008 37: 475-478; doi:10.1093/ageing/afn052 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Case Reports

Get checked abstract Alagiakrishnan Kannayiram, Ali Rezaie, and Seikaly Hadi

Chocolate-induced prolonged angiooedema in an elderly patient
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on April 3, 2008
Age Ageing 2008 37: 479-480; doi:10.1093/ageing/afn054 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Caroline Jane Magri, Peter Ferry, Mark Anthony Vassallo, and Antoine Vella

A pagetic elderly lady with back pain
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on March 17, 2008
Age Ageing 2008 37: 481-482; doi:10.1093/ageing/afn041 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Clinical Reminders

Kamala Mahmoud, Domnick D'costa, and Sue Dorrian

A case of recurrent rapidly progressive lower limb weakness
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on May 16, 2008
Age Ageing 2008 37: 383; doi:10.1093/ageing/afn104 [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Nikolaos K. Gatselis, Sotirios Barbanis, Fotini Karasavidou, and George N. Dalekos

Could the 90s be a second childhood period? The case of Henoch-Schonlein purpura
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on May 20, 2008
Age Ageing 2008 37: 483; doi:10.1093/ageing/afn106 [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Letters to the Editor

Jan De Lepeleire, Jan Degryse, Steve Illiffe, Eva Mann, and Frank Buntinx

Family physicians need easy instruments for frailty
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on May 30, 2008
Age Ageing 2008 37: 384; doi:10.1093/ageing/afn116 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Giovanni Ravaglia, Paola Forti, Anna Lucicesare, Nicoletta Pisacane, Elisa Rietti, and Christopher Patterson

Reply
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on May 31, 2008
Age Ageing 2008 37: 484-485; doi:10.1093/ageing/afn115 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Book reviews

Mary Godfrey

The ‘Grey Pound’ Care Revolution • C. Kirkman • The Essential Carer's Guide • M. Jordan
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on April 28, 2008
Age Ageing 2008 37: 486-487; doi:10.1093/ageing/afn090 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ian Stuart-Hamilton

A Personal Guide to Living with Progressive Memory Loss
Age Ageing 2008 37: 487; doi:10.1093/ageing/afn123 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Laura Palmer

A Caregiver's Guide to Alzheimer's Disease: 300 Tips for Making Life Easier
Age Ageing 2008 37: 487; doi:10.1093/ageing/afn086 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Website Review

Katy Ladbrook

Website review
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on May 31, 2008
Age Ageing 2008 37: 488; doi:10.1093/ageing/afn118 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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