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Editor's view Back

R. M. Francis
Editor's view
Age Ageing 2008 37: 489; doi:10.1093/ageing/afn164 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Editorials Back

S. C. Allen
What determines the ability to stop smoking in old age?
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on July 29, 2008
Age Ageing 2008 37: 490-491; doi:10.1093/ageing/afn137 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Rowan H. Harwood
Economic evaluations of complex services for older people
Age Ageing 2008 37: 491-493; doi:10.1093/ageing/afn154 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Edmond Chiu
Alcohol for the older person—friend or foe?
Age Ageing 2008 37: 493-494; doi:10.1093/ageing/afn157 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

News and Review Back

Diogenes
News and Reviews
Age Ageing 2008 37: 495-496; doi:10.1093/ageing/afn156 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Commentary Back

Alex J. Mitchell
Is it time to separate subjective cognitive complaints from the diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment?
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on August 5, 2008
Age Ageing 2008 37: 497-499; doi:10.1093/ageing/afn147 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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Sarita Singh and Christopher Bunker
Male genital dermatoses in old age
Age Ageing 2008 37: 500-504; doi:10.1093/ageing/afn155 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Systematic Review Back

Ruth Peters, Jean Peters, James Warner, Nigel Beckett, and Christopher Bulpitt
Alcohol, dementia and cognitive decline in the elderly: a systematic review
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on May 16, 2008
Age Ageing 2008 37: 505-512; doi:10.1093/ageing/afn095 [Abstract] [FREE Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Research Papers Back

Jacqueline O'reilly, Karin Lowson, John Green, John B. Young, and Anne Forster
Post-acute care for older people in community hospitals—a cost-effectiveness analysis within a multi-centre randomised controlled trial
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on May 30, 2008
Age Ageing 2008 37: 513-520; doi:10.1093/ageing/afn120 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Angela G. Brega, Jim Grigsby, Robert Kooken, Richard F. Hamman, and Judith Baxter
The impact of executive cognitive functioning on rates of smoking cessation in the San Luis Valley Health and Aging Study
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on May 30, 2008
Age Ageing 2008 37: 521-525; doi:10.1093/ageing/afn121 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Audhild Hjalmarsen and Dan Levi Hykkerud
Severe nocturnal hypoxaemia in geriatric inpatients
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on May 16, 2008
Age Ageing 2008 37: 526-529; doi:10.1093/ageing/afn110 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Francesco Di Meo, Claudio Pedone, Sergio Lubich, Carlo Pizzoli, Marco Traballesi, and Raffaele Antonelli Incalzi
Age does not hamper the response to pulmonary rehabilitation of COPD patients
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on June 19, 2008
Age Ageing 2008 37: 530-535; doi:10.1093/ageing/afn126 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Jian Sheng Chen, Judy M. Simpson, Lyn M. March, Ian D. Cameron, Robert G. Cumming, Stephen R. Lord, Markus J. Seibel, and Philip N. Sambrook
Fracture risk assessment in frail older people using clinical risk factors
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on June 9, 2008
Age Ageing 2008 37: 536-541; doi:10.1093/ageing/afn128 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Dan Wilson, Derek Lowe, ALEX Hoffman, Anthony Rudd, and Adrian Wagg
Urinary incontinence in stroke: results from the UK National Sentinel Audits of Stroke 1998–2004
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on August 7, 2008
Age Ageing 2008 37: 542-546; doi:10.1093/ageing/afn134 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Amy Wood-Mitchell, Ian Andrew James, Anna Waterworth, Alan Swann, and Clive Ballard
Factors influencing the prescribing of medications by old age psychiatrists for behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia: a qualitative study
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on July 17, 2008
Age Ageing 2008 37: 547-552; doi:10.1093/ageing/afn135 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Ngaire Kerse, Michal Boyd, Chris Mclean, Jane Koziol-Mclain, and Gillian Robb
The BRIGHT tool
Age Ageing 2008 37: 553-588; doi:10.1093/ageing/afn145 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Ai-Vyrn Chin, David J. Robinson, Henry O'Connell, Fiona Hamilton, Irene Bruce, Robert Coen, Bernard Walsh, Davis Coakley, Anne Molloy, John Scott, Brian A. Lawlor, and Conal J. Cunningham
Vascular biomarkers of cognitive performance in a community-based elderly population: the Dublin Healthy Ageing study
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on July 30, 2008
Age Ageing 2008 37: 559-564; doi:10.1093/ageing/afn144 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Danielle Harari, Steve Iliffe, Kalpa Kharicha, Matthias Egger, Gerhard Gillmann, W. Von Renteln-Kruse, John Beck, Cameron Swift, and Andreas Stuck
Promotion of health in older people: a randomised controlled trial of health risk appraisal in British general practice
Age Ageing 2008 37: 565-571; doi:10.1093/ageing/afn150 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

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Helen Hughes, Kelvin P. Jordan, Giri Rajaratnam, Steve Fawcett, and Peter Croft
Recent changes in general practice morbidity in older people
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on May 16, 2008
Age Ageing 2008 37: 572-575; doi:10.1093/ageing/afn111 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jing Xian Li, Dong Qing Xu, and Youlian Hong
Effects of 16-week Tai Chi intervention on postural stability and proprioception of knee and ankle in older people
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on June 9, 2008
Age Ageing 2008 37: 575-578; doi:10.1093/ageing/afn109 [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

V. Adhiyaman, P. Hobson, and R. J. Meara
Central and peripheral autonomic integrity in Parkinson's disease
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on August 7, 2008
Age Ageing 2008 37: 578-581; doi:10.1093/ageing/afn149 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

David Hargroves, Raymond Tallis, Valerie Pomeroy, and Ajay Bhalla
The influence of positioning upon cerebral oxygenation after acute stroke: a pilot study
Age Ageing 2008 37: 581-585; doi:10.1093/ageing/afn143 [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Joanna Lawson, Doris-Eva Bamiou, Helen S. Cohen, and Julia Newton
Positional vertigo in a falls service
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on July 29, 2008
Age Ageing 2008 37: 585-588; doi:10.1093/ageing/afn151 [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

H. J. Martin, H. E. Syddall, E. M. Dennison, C. Cooper, and A. Aihie Sayer
Relationship between customary physical activity, muscle strength and physical performance in older men and women: findings from the Hertfordshire Cohort Study
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on July 29, 2008
Age Ageing 2008 37: 589-593; doi:10.1093/ageing/afn148 [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data] [Request Permissions]  

Maneesha Lakmalie De Silva, Marie Thèresé Mclaughlin, Edrich Joseph Rodrigues, Julie Carolyn Broadbent, Andrew Robert Gray, and Graeme David Hammond-Tooke
A Mini-Mental Status Examination for the hearing impaired
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on August 7, 2008
Age Ageing 2008 37: 593-595; doi:10.1093/ageing/afn146 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Andrea Riphaus, Nikos Stergiou, and Till Wehrmann
ERCP in octogenerians: a safe and efficient investigation
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on June 5, 2008
Age Ageing 2008 37: 595-599; doi:10.1093/ageing/afn119 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Case Reports Back

Divya Tiwari and Khaled Amar
A case of corticobasal degeneration presenting with alien limb syndrome
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on May 29, 2008
Age Ageing 2008 37: 600-601; doi:10.1093/ageing/afn103 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

C. D. Hutchinson, D. L. Jardine, and M. Hurrell
Vagolysis
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on June 12, 2008
Age Ageing 2008 37: 602-604; doi:10.1093/ageing/afn105 [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Letters to the Editor Back

P. Abastado and D. Chemla
Lives of the artists
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on July 17, 2008
Age Ageing 2008 37: 605; doi:10.1093/ageing/afn139 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Phillip Greenspan, Grete Heinz, and James L. Hargrove
Reply
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on July 17, 2008
Age Ageing 2008 37: 605-606; doi:10.1093/ageing/afn138 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Julie Luker and Karen Grimmer-Somers
Ageism in stroke management
Age Ageing 2008 37: 606-607; doi:10.1093/ageing/afn162 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Kaare Dyre Palnum
Reply
Age Ageing 2008 37: 607; doi:10.1093/ageing/afn163 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Book reviews Back

Karen Le Ball
Challenges of an Aging Society. Ethical Dilemmas, Political Issues
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on May 30, 2008
Age Ageing 2008 37: 608; doi:10.1093/ageing/afn122 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Stephen M. Marson
Love Stories of Later Life: A Narrative Approach to Understanding Romance
Age Ageing 2008 37: 608; doi:10.1093/ageing/afn142 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Jagdish C. Sharma
Parkinson's Disease in the Older Adult
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on July 17, 2008
Age Ageing 2008 37: 608-609; doi:10.1093/ageing/afn136 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

R. B. shukla
Working with Adult Abuse: A Training Manual for People Working with Vulnerable Adults
Age and Ageing Advance Access published on July 17, 2008
Age Ageing 2008 37: 609; doi:10.1093/ageing/afn133 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

Corrigendum Back

Corrigendum
Age Ageing 2008 37: 610; doi:10.1093/ageing/afn131 [Full Text] [PDF] [Request Permissions]  

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