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Background: there is a need for more information on the costs of different ways of ma...
Objectives: the benefits of treatment of hypertension in older people are well-establ...
Depression affects 10-15% of people over 65 living at home in the United Kingdom. It ...
Muscle weakness and impaired balance are risk factors underlying many falls and fall ...
Objectives: to develop and implement guidelines on the appropriate use of cardiopulmo...
Objective: to propose three pictorial methods of presenting hospital outcome data, su...
Objectives: to investigate the effectiveness of a pharmacy discharge plan in elderly ...
Introduction: the older population is the most medicated. Despite high drug usage, ol...
Background: people with Parkinson's disease often fall. COPYRIGHT 2001 Oxford Unive...
Objective: to provide a profile of disorders and disabilities in the older population...
Background: it is uncertain how recent changes in labour force dynamics may have infl...
Objective: to review the literature on the prevalence and effect on outcome of psychi...
Background: dysphagia is common in acute stroke. Accurate detection of the presence o...
Aim: to describe the technical, diagnostic and logistical problems encountered in a s...
Background: despite evidence that needs assessment of older people can improve surviv...
Objective: to develop a depression screening scale that does not rely on verbal commu...
Objective: to determine whether the use of strategic and tactical compensation can su...
Objectives: to measure the effects of childhood mental ability on health in old age. ...
Objective: to investigate and compare the predictive values of four physical performa...
Objective: to investigate the prevalence of known diabetes mellitus in care homes and...
Background: nursing-home patients usually have many medical problems and often take m...
Case reports: two elderly patients (aged 70 and 80 years) presented with severe back ...
Background: non-adherence to the recommendations of short-term community-based consul...
Objective: to determine the number, instigators, nature and outcome of complaints con...
Background: there is a causal association between carotid sinus hypersensitivity, fal...
Background: prolonged head-up tilt testing and sublingual nitrate provocation are inc...
Background: undernourishment is common in elderly hip fracture patients and has been ...
Objective: to examine the influence of low-intensity, habitual physical activity on b...
Objective: to compare exercise levels, and dietary intake of fruit and vegetables in ...
Aim: to evaluate improvement and predictors of improvement in patients' perceived hea...
Background: an organized, goal-defined and time-specified plan of management as envis...
Objectives: many patients with primary biliary cirrhosis present for the first time a...
Objectives: to measure the extent to which the recommendations of a geriatric outreac...
Background: thrombo-embolic complications are important causes of morbidity and morta...
Objectives: to compare the therapeutic effects of two approaches to gait re-training ...
Presentation: an elderly patient presented with acute confusion and was found to have...
Main objectives: to screen for impaired distance visual acuity in older adults living...
Presentation: an 83-year-old man was admitted to hospital with acute confusion 3 days...
Objectives: the absolute number of notifications for tuberculosis in older people app...
Objectives: to determine the environmental quality of community-based residential and...
Objective: to investigate dependency and general health status of a cohort of older p...
Background: after stroke, visual impairment may exacerbate the impact of other impair...
Background: the consequences of ageing populations for health care costs have become ...
Presentation: a previously fit 80-year-old woman presented with a 2-week history of s...
Objective: to uncover any differences in the age-related and IgE-mediated pathophysio...
Background: the central tenet of the neurofacilitatory approach to stroke therapy is ...
Objective: to evaluate the associations of 18 activities of daily living with self-ra...
Background: previous longitudinal studies have shown an inverse relation between bloo...
Objective: to determine whether the age and medical condition of a patient influences...
Objective: to investigate the effects of supported discharge after an acute admission...
Objective: to determine the coverage of influenza vaccination in hospitalized elderly...
Objectives: to establish the reliability of the modified Ashworth scale for measuring...
Objective: we measured muscle strength and functional mobility in healthy men and wom...
Objective: to assess the effects of an early discharge hospital-at-home scheme on sel...
Objectives: to analyse socio-demographic differences in the onset and progression of ...
Background: depression is common but under-diagnosed in nursing-home residents. There...
Objectives: to determine breast screening uptake in older women and to ascertain from...
Objective: to evaluate whether faecal incontinence can be improved by treatment of co...
Background: the optimum treatment for oropharyngeal candidosis, particularly in older...
Objectives: to compare erythrocyte thiamine pyrophosphate concentrations in elderly p...
Objective: to identify subgroups within the population with reduced or delayed disabi...
Introduction: elderly patients appear to have a more aggressive form of gastro-oesoph...
Background: patient views on the quality of care are usually assessed by means of pat...
Objectives: to validate a nutritional intervention programme for elderly people livin...
Aim: to examine the relationship between atrophic glossitis (absence of papillae in m...
Objectives: to investigate the effect of use of external hip protectors on subjects' ...
Presentation: an elderly man had recurrent hospital admissions with falls. Outcome: a...
Background: female life expectancy in developed countries has increased by 30 years i...
Objective: to investigate the usefulness of a Dutch pressure sore risk assessment sca...
Objective: to study the impact of serum cholesterol concentrations on the total risk ...
Objectives: to compare a new low-dose warfarin induction regimen with the Fennerty re...
Background: the 39-item Parkinson's disease questionnaire (PDQ-39) is more sensitive ...
Objective: to describe the severity of adverse drug reactions as a factor in hospital...
Objective: to establish the relationship between subjective complaints of side effect...
Background: orthostatic hypotension in elderly people is often attributed to diminish...
Objective: to establish the mean and normal range for the difference in simultaneous ...
Background: although several reports indicate that qualitative and quantitative asses...
Aim: to assess the effects of a physiotherapist-led stroke training programme for nur...
Objective: to prove the effectiveness of geriatric evaluation and management for elde...
Background: delirium is common and is associated with many adverse short-term consequ...
Objective: to assess test characteristics of the Medical Outcomes Study SF-36 (Short-...
Objective: to examine variations in the needs assessment policies and practices of so...
Background: after 1 year, a home-based programme of strength and balance retraining e...
Objective: to study clinical features and prognosis of older people with chronic subd...
Background: increasing age affects aerobic capacity, with an average loss of 10% or m...
Background: antibiotic-associated diarrhoea caused by Clostridium difficile is increa...
Background: the reason why elderly human hips tend to break in one of two anatomical ...
Objective: to examine energy intake of elderly people participating in the Survey in ...
Objective: to investigate the differences in physical and psychological morbidity in ...
Introduction: anticoagulants and anti-platelet drugs have been shown in randomized tr...
Objective: to determine the validity of a clinical diagnosis of systolic dysfunction ...
Objective: to evaluate the relationship between oral health status and nutritional de...
Aim: to investigate which factors predict outcome of elderly patients on discharge an...
Aim: to investigate (i) whether loneliness increases in old age, and if so, whether i...
Aims: to see if elderly people can use the breath-activated (Easi-breathe) and dry po...
Objectives: to study trends in hospital admissions for inguinal hernia surgery in men...
Background and purpose: patients on stroke units have better outcomes but it is not k...
Aim: to evaluate the effect of amlodipine on blood pressure and cerebral blood flow i...
Background: there are conflicting data on the association between Helicobacter pylori...
Objective: to evaluate whether physical disability reaches a plateau in the oldest ag...
Objectives: to explore the relationships between lifestyle and memory, and determine ...
Background: depressive illness in dementia is often assumed to be a unitary clinical ...
Background: instability in the organization and expression of the genetic material ha...
Objectives: to assess the validity of the Parkinson's Disease Quality of Life (PDQL) ...
Presentation: a 76-year-old woman, complaining of leg pain and unsteady gait for 3 ye...
Objective: to examine the relationship between age, blood pressure and cardiac barore...
Objective: to study how many elderly inpatients with previously diagnosed atrial fibr...
Objective: to review clinical presentation and outcome of patients with a diagnosis o...
Background: there is increased risk of surgical treatment in elderly patients, but li...
Abstract Objective: to investigate variations in the masseteric myotatic reflex (ja...
Abstract Objective: to identify risk factors for admission for patients aged 75 yea...
Abstract Background: high walking frames may improve exercise capacity in young pat...
Abstract Objective: to measure the prevalence of impairments, disabilities and hand...
Restless legs One of the most difficult symptoms to control in old age is restless ...
Abstract Objective: to evaluate whether oral supplementation with zinc or zinc/argi...
Introduction 1. The high incidence and serious consequences of stroke make it one o...
Abstract Objective: to assess levels of fruit and vegetable consumption in elderly ...
Keywords: proximal femoral fracture, management, mortality Introduction Patients ...
Abstract Objective: to study the prevalence of coronary heart disease (CHD) and its...
Abstract Objective: investigation of length of survival, complications, level of de...
Abstract Background: the Oxfordshire Community Stroke Project (OCSP) devised a simp...
Abstract Objective: to examine the association of physical activity and cardio-resp...
Abstract Background: the presentation of common bile duct disease, value of investi...
Introduction Lewy bodies are intraneuronal, eosinophilic inclusion bodies which are...
Clinician's Manual on Non-Insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus Paul Zimmet and Matthew...
Does ageing impair thyroid function? Acute illness in old age can produce changes i...
Introduction There are few reported cases of recurrence decades after disease-free ...
Clinician's Manual on Osteoporosis L. V. Avioli London: Science Press, 1997. 2nd ed...
Discharge of an elderly patient from hospital is usually preceded by a thorough inter...
Osteoarthritis, Public Health Implications for an Aging Population Edited by David Ha...
Why We Age Steven N. Austad New York: John Wiley and Sons. 244pp, 19.99 [pounds ste...
SIR--The baroreflex regulation of blood pressure is modulated by cholinergic systems ...
The New Dictionary of Medical Ethics Edited by Kenneth M. Boyd, Roger Higgs and Antho...
SIR--We read with interest the latest article discussing cardiopulmonary resuscitatio...
Kenneth D. Brandt Diagnosis and Non-Surgical Management of Osteoarthritis Indianapo...
SIR--The results presented by Minors et al. that older subjects showed less day-to-da...
SIR -- Michielson et al. report a simple way to collect urine samples in elderly wome...
SIR--The growth of nursing home care in place of hospital-based care is paralleled in...
Introduction "We have a winding sheet in our mother's womb that grows with us from ...
Rehabilitation of the Physically Disabled Adult Edited by J. Goodwill, A. Chamberlain...
Introduction The incidence of most tumours rises steeply with age, but this does not ...
Introduction The finding that folate deficiency at a cellular level can occur even wi...
Introduction Congestive heart failure (CHF) affects 3-5% of the population over the a...
Introduction The Chinese population of Hong Kong is relatively young in terms of the ...
Introduction Investigation of medication use patterns in a population (or pharmaco-ep...
Introduction The prevalence of chronic gastritis increases with age and becomes so co...
Introduction Suicidal behaviour in dementia patients has received little research att...
Introduction Since the first successful culture of spiral bacteria from the human sto...
Introduction Colorectal cancer causes appreciable morbidity. It is the second most co...
Introduction Rectus sheath haematoma is an unusual but well-described clinical entity...
Introduction Both cross-sectional [1-7] and longitudinal [8, 9] studies have consiste...
Introduction The study of nutritional status of elderly people is of particular impor...
Introduction Most disability measurement instruments use rudimentary scoring systems ...
Introduction Physical exercise and resistance training may improve, or at least maint...
Keywords: aged care, eating disorder, nutrition Introduction Much emphasis is pl...
Introduction Two recent cross-sectional studies have shown that cognitive impairment ...
Keywords: coeliac disease, gluten-sensitive enteropathy, old age Introduction Co...
Introduction Protein-calorie malnutrition is very common in geriatric and other adult...
Introduction Chronic airflow limitation (CAL), mainly due to smoking-related chronic ...
Introduction Many diseases may disturb fluid balance, which is already compromised by...
Introduction Mortality studies among minority ethnic groups in Britain have revealed ...
The shift towards community and primary care has led to increasing interest in, as we...
Introduction Although accidental injury occurs less frequently in old people than in ...
Introduction The use of medication, particularly psychotropic drugs, by elderly resid...
Keywords: ethnic minority elders, mental health, psychiatric needs Introduction ...
Introduction In Hong Kong, diabetes mellitus is very common in the Chinese population...
Introduction Only rarely do nursing homes meet all the psychological needs of their r...
Keywords: cognitive impairment, depression, ethnic minority, screening Introduct...
Keywords: long-term care, quality of care, Japan It is commonly believed in the West ...
Introduction Hospital-acquired diarrhoea is troublesome, costly and associated with a...
Introduction In a recent editorial, Crombie et al. [1] called for epidemiological stu...
Introduction Stroke is one of the major causes of mortality and morbidity in older pe...
Introduction Heart failure (HF) is traditionally diagnosed clinically from history an...
Introduction Changing demography and rising health and social costs have led governme...
Introduction Treatment with angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors improves s...
Introduction One of the important aspects of health in elderly individuals is their n...
Keywords: long-term care, quality of care, Japan It is commonly believed in the Wes...
The shift towards community and primary care has led to increasing interest in, as we...
Keywords: ethnic minority elders, mental health, psychiatric needs Introduction T...