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R. M. Francis

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Age Ageing 2009 38: 493; doi:10.1093/ageing/afp135 [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Editorials

John E. Morley and Alan Sinclair

The metabolic syndrome in older persons: a loosely defined constellation of symptoms or a distinct entity?
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on July 2, 2009
Age Ageing 2009 38: 494-497; doi:10.1093/ageing/afp105 [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Theodoros Gouliouris, Duncan R. Forsyth, and Nicholas M. Brown

Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhoea (CDAD): new and contentious issues
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on July 14, 2009
Age Ageing 2009 38: 497-500; doi:10.1093/ageing/afp116 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

News and Reviews

Diogenes

News and Review
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on July 6, 2009
Age Ageing 2009 38: 501-502; doi:10.1093/ageing/afp096 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Review

Get checked abstract Catherine Quarini and Margot Gosney

Review of the evidence for a colorectal cancer screening programme in elderly people
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on July 6, 2009
Age Ageing 2009 38: 503-508; doi:10.1093/ageing/afp103 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Research Papers

Get checked abstract Nandini Deshpande, E. Jeffrey Metter, Stefania Bandinelli, Jack Guralnik, and Luigi Ferrucci

Gait speed under varied challenges and cognitive decline in older persons: a prospective study
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on June 23, 2009
Age Ageing 2009 38: 509-514; doi:10.1093/ageing/afp093 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Jose Marcelo Farfel, Suelene Aires Franca, Maria do Carmo Sitta, Wilson Jacob Filho, and Carlos Roberto Ribeiro Carvalho

Age, invasive ventilatory support and outcomes in elderly patients admitted to intensive care units
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on July 15, 2009
Age Ageing 2009 38: 515-520; doi:10.1093/ageing/afp119 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Ruth Peters, Nigel Beckett, Mariela Geneva, Maria Tzekova, Fang Hong Lu, Ruth Poulter, Nicola Gainsborough, Brian Williams, Marie-Christine de Vernejoul, Astrid Fletcher, and Christopher Bulpitt

Sociodemographic and lifestyle risk factors for incident dementia and cognitive decline in the HYVET
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on June 24, 2009
Age Ageing 2009 38: 521-527; doi:10.1093/ageing/afp094 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Ann Bowling

Predictors of mortality among a national sample of elderly widowed people: analysis of 28-year mortality rates
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on July 15, 2009
Age Ageing 2009 38: 527-530; doi:10.1093/ageing/afp108 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Andiara Schwingel, Mathew M. Niti, Catherine Tang, and Tze Pin Ng

Continued work employment and volunteerism and mental well-being of older adults: Singapore longitudinal ageing studies
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on May 27, 2009
Age Ageing 2009 38: 531-537; doi:10.1093/ageing/afp089 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Stephen C. Allen and Mark Baxter

A comparison of four tests of cognition as predictors of inability to perform spirometry in old age
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on June 24, 2009
Age Ageing 2009 38: 537-541; doi:10.1093/ageing/afp104 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract René J. F. Melis, Monique I. J. van Eijken, Theo van Achterberg, Steven Teerenstra, Myrra J. F. J. Vernooij-Dassen, Eloy H. van de Lisdonk, and Marcel G. M. Olde Rikkert

The effect on caregiver burden of a problem-based home visiting programme for frail older people
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on July 2, 2009
Age Ageing 2009 38: 542-547; doi:10.1093/ageing/afp101 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Stephen C. Allen, Michael Vassallo, and Ahmed Khattab

The threshold for sensing airflow resistance during tidal breathing rises in old age: implications for elderly patients with obstructive airways diseases
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on July 9, 2009
Age Ageing 2009 38: 548-552; doi:10.1093/ageing/afp110 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Jean Woo, Eddie W. C. Suen, Jason C. S. Leung, Nelson L. S. Tang, and Shah Ebrahim

Older men with higher self-rated socioeconomic status have shorter telomeres
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on June 25, 2009
Age Ageing 2009 38: 553-558; doi:10.1093/ageing/afp098 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Daniel Davis and Alasdair MacLullich

Understanding barriers to delirium care: a multicentre survey of knowledge and attitudes amongst UK junior doctors
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on July 10, 2009
Age Ageing 2009 38: 559-563; doi:10.1093/ageing/afp099 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Ryota Akagi, Yohei Takai, Megumi Ohta, Hiroaki Kanehisa, Yasuo Kawakami, and Tetsuo Fukunaga

Muscle volume compared to cross-sectional area is more appropriate for evaluating muscle strength in young and elderly individuals
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on July 13, 2009
Age Ageing 2009 38: 564-569; doi:10.1093/ageing/afp122 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Ram R. Miller, Shoshana H. Ballew, Michelle D. Shardell, Gregory E. Hicks, William G. Hawkes, Barbara Resnick, and Jay Magaziner

Repeat falls and the recovery of social participation in the year post-hip fracture
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on July 8, 2009
Age Ageing 2009 38: 570-575; doi:10.1093/ageing/afp107 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Anne Forster, John Young, John Green, Chris Patterson, Peter Wanklyn, Jane Smith, Jenni Murray, Heather Wild, Susan Bogle, and Karin Lowson

Structured re-assessment system at 6 months after a disabling stroke: a randomised controlled trial with resource use and cost study
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on June 22, 2009
Age Ageing 2009 38: 576-583; doi:10.1093/ageing/afp095 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Antonio Teixeira, Ludovic Trinquart, Mathilde Raphael, Tanja Bastianic, Gilles Chatellier, and Josiane Holstein

Outcomes in older patients after surgical treatment for hip fracture: a new approach to characterise the link between readmissions and the surgical stay
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on July 13, 2009
Age Ageing 2009 38: 584-589; doi:10.1093/ageing/afp124 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Nikolaos Kostulas, Ioanna Markaki, Helen Cansu, Thomas Masterman, and Vasilios Kostulas

Hyperglycaemia in acute ischaemic stroke is associated with an increased 5-year mortality
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on July 14, 2009
Age Ageing 2009 38: 590-594; doi:10.1093/ageing/afp120 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Siân Robinson, Holly Syddall, Karen Jameson, Sue Batelaan, Helen Martin, Elaine M. Dennison, Cyrus Cooper, and Avan Aihie Sayer The Hertfordshire Study Group

Current patterns of diet in community-dwelling older men and women: results from the Hertfordshire Cohort Study
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on July 23, 2009
Age Ageing 2009 38: 594-599; doi:10.1093/ageing/afp121 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Research Letters

Tom Braes, Johan Flamaing, Wendy Sterckx, Piet Lipkens, Marc Sabbe, Sophia E. de Rooij, Marieke J. Schuurmans, Philip Moons, and Koen Milisen

Predicting the risk of functional decline in older patients admitted to the hospital: a comparison of three screening instruments
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on June 25, 2009
Age Ageing 2009 38: 600-603; doi:10.1093/ageing/afp097 [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Paul Gallagher, Jean-Pierre Baeyens, Eva Topinkova, Pavla Madlova, Antonio Cherubini, Beatrice Gasperini, Alfonso Cruz-Jentoft, Beatriz Montero, Pierre Olivier Lang, Jean-Pierre Michel, and Denis O’Mahony

Inter-rater reliability of STOPP (Screening Tool of Older Persons’ Prescriptions) and START (Screening Tool to Alert doctors to Right Treatment) criteria amongst physicians in six European countries
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on May 12, 2009
Age Ageing 2009 38: 603-606; doi:10.1093/ageing/afp058 [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Alison Avenell, Jonathan A. Cook, Graeme S. MacLennan, and Gladys C. McPherson

Vitamin D supplementation and type 2 diabetes: a substudy of a randomised placebo-controlled trial in older people (RECORD trial, ISRCTN 51647438)
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on July 18, 2009
Age Ageing 2009 38: 606-609; doi:10.1093/ageing/afp109 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Kerina I. Tull, Vasant Hirani, Ayesha Ali, Eddy Chua, and Jennifer S. Mindell

Impact of different diagnostic thresholds and the anaemia–ferritin–transferrin receptor model on the prevalence of anaemia and impaired iron status in older people
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on June 30, 2009
Age Ageing 2009 38: 609-613; doi:10.1093/ageing/afp102 [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Tommi Sulander, Ossi Rahkonen, Olli Nummela, and Antti Uutela

Ten year trends in health inequalities among older people, 1993–2003
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on July 17, 2009
Age Ageing 2009 38: 613-617; doi:10.1093/ageing/afp125 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Kalyani Snell, Susan Pennington, Mark Lee, and Richard Walker

The place of death in Parkinson's disease
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on July 23, 2009
Age Ageing 2009 38: 617-619; doi:10.1093/ageing/afp123 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Domenico Intiso, Filomena Di Rienzo, Giuseppina Grimaldi, Teresa Lombardi, Piero Fiore, Giuseppe Maruzzi, Andrea Iarossi, Maurizio Tolfa, and Luigi Pazienza

Survival and functional outcome in patients 90 years of age or older after hip fracture
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on July 24, 2009
Age Ageing 2009 38: 619-622; doi:10.1093/ageing/afp126 [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Case Reports

Get checked abstract Emma M. E. Rankin, Rayessa Rayessa, and Sarah L. Keir

Pseudoperipheral palsy due to cortical infarction
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on March 12, 2009
Age Ageing 2009 38: 623-624; doi:10.1093/ageing/afp025 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Tamir Ali and Roger H. Jay

Spontaneous femoral shaft fracture after long-term alendronate
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on June 25, 2009
Age Ageing 2009 38: 625-626; doi:10.1093/ageing/afp106 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Get checked abstract Meghna Jani and Chandan Biswas

Unilateral breast oedema in a case of non-rheumatic giant left atrium
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on July 9, 2009
Age Ageing 2009 38: 627-628; doi:10.1093/ageing/afp111 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Letters to the Editor

Marwan H. Adwan

Pseudomonas arthropathy in an older patient
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on May 18, 2009
Age Ageing 2009 38: 629; doi:10.1093/ageing/afp063 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Folasade O. Ijaola and Shahid A. Kausar

Visual impairment following stroke: do stroke patients require vision assessment?
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on July 15, 2009
Age Ageing 2009 38: 629-630; doi:10.1093/ageing/afp117 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Fiona Rowe

Reply
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on July 15, 2009
Age Ageing 2009 38: 630-631; doi:10.1093/ageing/afp114 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Nigel Dudley

Letter to the Editor
Age Ageing 2009 38: 631; doi:10.1093/ageing/afp132 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Omer Saka

Reply
Age Ageing 2009 38: 631-632; doi:10.1093/ageing/afp134 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

R. M. Francis

Editor's Note
Age Ageing 2009 38: 632; doi:10.1093/ageing/afp133 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Christine Thomas and P. Oster

Letter to the Editor
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on July 23, 2009
Age Ageing 2009 38: 632-633; doi:10.1093/ageing/afp113 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Eamonn Michael Paul Eeles, Susan White, and Tony Bayer

Inability to complete cognitive assessment is a marker of adverse risk
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on July 23, 2009
Age Ageing 2009 38: 633-634; doi:10.1093/ageing/afp115 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

E. B. Mukaetova-Ladinska, J. Cerejeira, C. Yates, N. Stanley, and R. Jay

Reply
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on July 23, 2009
Age Ageing 2009 38: 634-635; doi:10.1093/ageing/afp118 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Book reviews

Charlotte Kirk

The easy guide to OSCEs for specialties: a step-by-step to OSCE success
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on July 13, 2009
Age Ageing 2009 38: 636; doi:10.1093/ageing/afp112 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Tom Kirkwood

The biology of human longevity: inflammation, nutrition and ageing in the evolution of lifespans
Age Ageing 2009 38: 636; doi:10.1093/ageing/afp130 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Deborah Ramsey

Interpretation of emergency head CT
Age Ageing 2009 38: 637; doi:10.1093/ageing/afp129 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Errata

Paul J. Roderick, Richard J. Atkins, Liam Smeeth, Dorothea M. Nitsch, Richard B. Hubbard, Astrid E. Fletcher, and Chris J. Bulpitt

Detecting chronic kidney disease in older people; what are the implications?
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on April 30, 2009
Age Ageing 2009 38: 638; doi:10.1093/ageing/afp047 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Roy L. Soiza, David J. P. Williams, and Mike A. Crilly

Use of pulse wave analysis to measure arterial stiffness in old age
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on April 30, 2009
Age Ageing 2009 38: 638; doi:10.1093/ageing/afp048 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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