Age and Ageing

Editor's view

R. M. Francis

Editor's view
Age Ageing 2009 38: 251; doi:10.1093/ageing/afp037 [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Editorials

Andrew Teodorczuk, Mark Welfare, Sally Corbett, and Elizabeta Mukaetova-Ladinska

Education, hospital staff and the confused older patient
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on February 28, 2009
Age Ageing 2009 38: 252-253; doi:10.1093/ageing/afp007 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Katherine Brooke-Wavell and Neil J. Mansfield

Risks and benefits of whole body vibration training in older people
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on March 16, 2009
Age Ageing 2009 38: 254-255; doi:10.1093/ageing/afp036 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Deepa Sumukadas, Peter Davey, and Marion E. T. McMurdo

Recurrent urinary tract infections in older people: the role of cranberry products
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on March 5, 2009
Age Ageing 2009 38: 255-257; doi:10.1093/ageing/afp034 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

News and Reviews

Diogenes

News and Reviews
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on March 16, 2009
Age Ageing 2009 38: 258-259; doi:10.1093/ageing/afp032 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Reviews

Get checked abstract Alexandra Handley, Pippa Medcalf, Kate Hellier, and Dipankar Dutta

Movement disorders after stroke
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on March 10, 2009
Age Ageing 2009 38: 260-266; doi:10.1093/ageing/afp020 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract M. W. Massyn and S. A. Khan

Heyde syndrome: a common diagnosis in older patients with severe aortic stenosis
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on March 10, 2009
Age Ageing 2009 38: 267-270; doi:10.1093/ageing/afp019 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Research Papers

Get checked abstract Shiuan-Chih Chen, Yuan-Ti Lee, Chi-Hua Yen, Kuang-Chi Lai, Long-Bin Jeng, Ding-Bang Lin, Po-Hui Wang, Chun-Chieh Chen, Meng-Chih Lee, and William R. Bell

Pyogenic liver abscess in the elderly: clinical features, outcomes and prognostic factors
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on February 28, 2009
Age Ageing 2009 38: 271-276; doi:10.1093/ageing/afp002 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Graciela Muniz-Terrera, Fiona Matthews, Tom Dening, Felicia A. Huppert, Carol Brayne, and CC75C Group

Education and trajectories of cognitive decline over 9 years in very old people: methods and risk analysis
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on February 28, 2009
Age Ageing 2009 38: 277-282; doi:10.1093/ageing/afp004 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Richard D. Semba, Luigi Ferrucci, Kai Sun, Kushang V. Patel, Jack M. Guralnik, and Linda P. Fried

Elevated serum advanced glycation end products and their circulating receptors are associated with anaemia in older community-dwelling women
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on February 28, 2009
Age Ageing 2009 38: 283-289; doi:10.1093/ageing/afp011 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Michele L. Callisaya, Leigh Blizzard, Michael D. Schmidt, Jennifer L. McGinley, Stephen R. Lord, and Velandai K. Srikanth

A population-based study of sensorimotor factors affecting gait in older people
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on March 5, 2009
Age Ageing 2009 38: 290-295; doi:10.1093/ageing/afp017 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Domenico Scrutinio, Andrea Passantino, Daniela Santoro, Erasmo Cacciapaglia, and Giuseppe Farinola

Prognostic value of formulas estimating excretory renal function in the elderly with systolic heart failure
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on February 28, 2009
Age Ageing 2009 38: 296-301; doi:10.1093/ageing/afp006 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Maria Chiara Carboncini, Duccio Volterrani, Luca Bonfiglio, Gabriele Barsotti, Mauro Della Porta, Giuliano Mariani, and Bruno Rossi

Higher level gait disorders in subcortical chronic vascular encephalopathy: a single photon emission computed tomography study
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on March 18, 2009
Age Ageing 2009 38: 302-307; doi:10.1093/ageing/afp003 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Maura O’Sullivan, Catherine Blake, Conal Cunningham, Gerard Boyle, and Ciarán Finucane

Correlation of accelerometry with clinical balance tests in older fallers and non-fallers
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on February 28, 2009
Age Ageing 2009 38: 308-313; doi:10.1093/ageing/afp009 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Sharyn L. Ingarfield, Judith C. Finn, Ian G. Jacobs, Nicholas P. Gibson, C. D'arcy J. Holman, George A. Jelinek, and Leon Flicker

Use of emergency departments by older people from residential care: a population based study
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on March 12, 2009
Age Ageing 2009 38: 314-318; doi:10.1093/ageing/afp022 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Carol Jagger, Ruth Matthews, James Lindesay, Thompson Robinson, Peter Croft, and Carol Brayne

The effect of dementia trends and treatments on longevity and disability: a simulation model based on the MRC Cognitive Function and Ageing Study (MRC CFAS)
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on March 3, 2009
Age Ageing 2009 38: 319-325; doi:10.1093/ageing/afp016 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Dimitrios Adamis, Mary Lunn, Finbarr C. Martin, Adrian Treloar, Norman Gregson, Gillian Hamilton, and Alastair J. D. Macdonald

Cytokines and IGF-I in delirious and non-delirious acutely ill older medical inpatients
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on March 5, 2009
Age Ageing 2009 38: 326-332; doi:10.1093/ageing/afp014 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Julie Byles, Cynthia J. Millar, David W. Sibbritt, and Pauline Chiarelli

Living with urinary incontinence: a longitudinal study of older women
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on March 3, 2009
Age Ageing 2009 38: 333-338; doi:10.1093/ageing/afp013 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Research Letters

Opinder Sahota

Vitamin D and in-patient falls
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on March 18, 2009
Age Ageing 2009 38: 339-340; doi:10.1093/ageing/afp012 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Maria C. Norton, Truls Østbye, Ken R. Smith, Ronald G. Munger, and Joann T. Tschanz

Early parental death and late-life dementia risk: findings from the Cache County Study
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on March 9, 2009
Age Ageing 2009 38: 340-343; doi:10.1093/ageing/afp023 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Christopher Beer, Pascalle Bosboom, Osvlado P. Almeida, and Leon Flicker

Rating the quality of life of people with dementia living in residential care facilities in routine research practice
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on March 5, 2009
Age Ageing 2009 38: 343-346; doi:10.1093/ageing/afp018 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

M. A. Mas, A. Renom, O. Vazquez, R. Miralles, A. J. Bayer, and A. M. Cervera

Interruptions to rehabilitation in a geriatric rehabilitation unit: associated factors and consequences
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on February 28, 2009
Age Ageing 2009 38: 346-349; doi:10.1093/ageing/afp010 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Case Reports

Get checked abstract Anita Chittaranjan Shetty, John Morris, and Paul O’Mahony

Akinetic mutism—not coma
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on March 18, 2009
Age Ageing 2009 38: 350-351; doi:10.1093/ageing/afp005 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract J. Ramtahal and A. J. Larner

Shaky legs? Think POT!
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on February 28, 2009
Age Ageing 2009 38: 352-353; doi:10.1093/ageing/afp008 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Letter to the Editor

Alison South, Catherine Tandy, Rebecca Watt, and  Oliver J. Corrado

Comment on ‘Care home medicine in the UK—in from the cold’
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on March 6, 2009
Age Ageing 2009 38: 354; doi:10.1093/ageing/afp031 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

S. A. Khan

The geriatric day hospital: past, present and future
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on March 5, 2009
Age Ageing 2009 38: 354-355; doi:10.1093/ageing/afp028 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

H. Carl Hanger

The effect of bedrails on falls and injury
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on March 5, 2009
Age Ageing 2009 38: 355; doi:10.1093/ageing/afp027 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Book reviews

Peter Millard

Ageing, Disability and Spirituality: Addressing the Challenge of Disability in Later Life
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on October 13, 2008
Age Ageing 2009 38: 356; doi:10.1093/ageing/afn214 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ian Donald

Not dead yet—a manifesto for old age
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on March 12, 2009
Age Ageing 2009 38: 356; doi:10.1093/ageing/afp030 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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