STOPP/START criteria for potentially inappropriate prescribing in older people: version 2.

abstract：:The General Medical Council (GMC) provides a core curriculum for all medical degrees in the UK. However, these guidelines do not provide in-depth, specific learning outcomes for the various medical specialties. Recognising our ageing population, the British Geriatrics Society in 2013 published their own supplementary ...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Tinker A,Hussain L,D'Cruz JL,Tai WY,Zaidman S

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interest in, and concern about, the abuse of elderly people is growing rapidly. A study of the literature shows little research in the UK, but valuable indicators about risk factors and interventions from North America. One of the major problems has been definition and this paper distinguishes between different kinds ...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： McCreadie C,Tinker A

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：METHOD:We investigated the association of total serum cholesterol concentrations and subsequent overall and coronary mortality in 304 patients aged > or =65 discharged from hospital after acute myocardial infarction. RESULTS:There was no association between total cholesterol concentrations and mortality due to either ...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Bo M,Fiandra U,Fonte G,Bobbio M,Fabris F

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:in a secondary analysis of a randomised controlled trial, we investigated whether 6 months of music-based multitask training had beneficial effects on cognitive functioning and mood in older adults. METHODS:134 community-dwellers aged ≥65 years at increased risk for falling were randomly assigned to either ...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Hars M,Herrmann FR,Gold G,Rizzoli R,Trombetti A

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:delirium is under-recognised in comparison to other common and serious acute disorders. A 2006 survey of UK junior doctors (not undertaking specialist training) identified poor knowledge of the diagnostic criteria and treatment of delirium. We hypothesised that increased prominence accorded to delirium in th...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Jenkin RP,Al-Attar A,Richardson S,Myint PK,MacLullich AM,Davis DH

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study was carried out to examine the prevalence of oropharyngeal and urinary tract colonization and to compare the colonizing bacteria with the strains causing nosocomial infections during patients' stays in a geriatric ward. Colonization with Gram-negative rods was not uncommon. Nosocomial infections frequently occ...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Michielsen W,Vandevondele D,Verschraegen G,Claeys G,Afschrift M

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Rivermead ADL scale was developed for assessing activities of daily living in stroke patients but was not validated for elderly subjects. This study was designed to validate the scale for patients aged over 64 years. A series of 150 stroke patients was assessed on the scale, of whom 103 were aged over 64 years. Th...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Lincoln NB,Edmans JA

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To investigate the effect of a general practitioner's 'patient centredness' on identification of unmet needs in older adults. DESIGN:Correlational questionnaire based study with a descriptive element. SETTING:Two south London general practice surgeries. PARTICIPANTS:Sixty seven patients over the age of 65...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Smith F,Orrell M

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:cranberry juice is often given to older people in hospital to prevent urinary tract infection (UTI), although there is little evidence to support its use. OBJECTIVE:to assess whether cranberry juice ingestion is effective in reducing UTIs in older people in hospital. DESIGN:randomised, placebo-controlled, ...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： McMurdo ME,Bissett LY,Price RJ,Phillips G,Crombie IK

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) prevalence steadily increases with age. However, the effectiveness of inhaled therapy in the elderly COPD population has rarely been formally evaluated. We studied a group of elderly patients with COPD with a range of severity, selected from one General Practice re...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Jarvis S,Ind PW,Shiner RJ

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:a professional man sustained a residual, persisting, isolated impairment of short-term memory secondary to severe carbon monoxide poisoning. Informal, open trial of the cholinesterase inhibitor donepezil resulted in uncertain benefit. PROTOCOL:an N-of-1 randomized, double-blind controlled trial of donepez...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Price JD,Grimley Evans J

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This review considers the changes in salivary glands associated with ageing and concludes that there is no evidence to show that xerostomia is likely to result from the ageing process alone. The four main factors causing xerostomia are presented and it can be seen that the condition is a side-effect of diseases and th...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Ettinger RL

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：PRESENTATION:a previously fit 80-year-old woman presented with a 2-week history of spontaneous and extensive bruising affecting all four limbs. The severity was such that she required a transfusion of 8 units of blood. RESULTS OF INVESTIGATIONS:a markedly prolonged activated partial thromboplastin time which was only ...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Kelly J,Gattens M,Geraghty R

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:to explore the relationship between blood lipids/lipoproteins and cognitive function in the Chinese oldest-old. DESIGN:multivariate statistical analysis using cross-sectional data. SETTING:community-based setting in longevity areas in China. SUBJECTS:eight hundred and thirty-six subjects aged 80 and older ...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Yin ZX,Shi XM,Kraus VB,Fitzgerald SM,Qian HZ,Xu JW,Zhai Y,Sereny MD,Zeng Y

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:aspiration pneumonia increases hospitalisation and mortality of older people in residential aged care. OBJECTIVES:determine potentially pathogenic microorganisms in oral specimens of older people with aspiration pneumonia and the effect of professional oral care in reducing aspiration pneumonia risk. DATA ...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Khadka S,Khan S,King A,Goldberg LR,Crocombe L,Bettiol S

更新日期：2021-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of a teaching machine is the assessment of mental function has been described by Gredye and his colleagues. This report concerns its use in testing 56 elderly patients suffering from functional psychiatric disorders of dementia. After a diagnostic interview patients were tested on the teaching machine as well ...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Levy R,Post F

更新日期：1975-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:(i) to describe the general practitioner utilisation of health assessments, management plans, coordination of team care arrangements and medication review item numbers within 6 months of an aged care eligibility assessment for home care packages (HCP) and (ii) investigate the impact of health assessments on t...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Visvanathan R,Amare AT,Lang C,Khadka J,Yu S,Beilby J,Wesselingh S,Inacio MC

更新日期：2021-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Two studies of the social behaviour of geriatric patients are reported. In the first, lunchtime observations were made of two comparable wards in a continuing-care hospital and all episodes of social interaction recorded. There were twice as many interactions on one ward as on the other and their type and variety diff...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Davies AD,Snaith PA

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：Objective:to investigate whether cognitive impairment, measured early after Emergency Department (ED) arrival and irrespective of its cause, is independently associated with functional decline or mortality after 3 and 12 months in older ED patients. Design and setting:a prospective multi-centre cohort study in all Acu...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Lucke JA,de Gelder J,Heringhaus C,van der Mast RC,Fogteloo AJ,Anten S,Blauw GJ,de Groot B,Mooijaart SP

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:a large number of studies have explored factors related to self- and informant ratings of quality of life in people with dementia, but many studies have had relatively small sample sizes and mainly focused on health conditions and dementia symptoms. The aim of this study is to compare self- and informant-rat...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Wu YT,Nelis SM,Quinn C,Martyr A,Jones IR,Victor CR,Knapp M,Henderson C,Hindle JV,Jones RW,Kopelman MD,Morris RG,Pickett JA,Rusted JM,Thom JM,Litherland R,Matthews FE,Clare L,IDEAL Programme team.

更新日期：2020-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Capillary fragility has been examined in 110 elderly patients, excluding those patients who might have been expected to have abnormal fragility. Nonetheless, fragility appeared to be greater in elderly patients than in younger subjects. It was much increased in the non-paralysed arm of hemiplegic patients but not in t...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Bloomer J,Morley H,Denham MJ,Hodkinson HM

更新日期：1978-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical assessments have to be used in epidemiological studies in the absence of more objective means of establishing diagnosis or recording events in the natural history of disease. This requires the standardization of definition, technique and interpretation as a means of reducing observer variability in clinical e...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Garraway WM,Akhtar AJ,Gore SM,Prescott RJ,Smith RG

更新日期：1976-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:The very old are expected to become a growing part of the stroke population in the industrialised part of the world. The aims of this study were to evaluate clinical characteristics of patients aged 85 years or more at stroke onset and to investigate very old age as an independent predictor of sh...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Kammersgaard LP,Jørgensen HS,Reith J,Nakayama H,Pedersen PM,Olsen TS,Copenhagen Stroke Study.

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Valproate (VPA) is an antiepileptic drug with a broad spectrum of efficacy. Although usually well-tolerated, it may have side-effects of which encephalopathy is one of the most serious. OBJECTIVE:To describe the clinical characteristics of valproate encephalopathy (VE) in five older patients with remote sym...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Beyenburg S,Back C,Diederich N,Lewis M,Reuber M

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The European Stroke Database (ESDB) Project aims to develop a 'common clinical language' for stroke care by agreeing on terminology, definitions and clinical assessments. Each area of stroke assessment has a 'minimum dataset', which can be collected routinely and more detailed information can be added for pa...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Ellul J,Watkins C,Barer D

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:to provide evidence for predictors of recovery in instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs) among disabled older people living in the community. DESIGN:MRC CFAS recruited a sample of 13,004 individuals aged 65 years and above from five communities in the UK. Participants underwent a baseline interview ...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Seidel D,Jagger C,Brayne C,Matthews FE,Cfas M

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute appendicitis in elderly patients has not been studied extensively in the United Kingdom. Studies were performed prior to the regular use of broad spectrum antibiotics and tended to include younger patients. We studied retrospectively all elderly patients (n = 30, mean age = 72 years) who presented in the years 1...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： McCallion J,Canning GP,Knight PV,McCallion JS

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Neuberger report failed to show that the Liverpool Care Pathway was the cause of poor end-of-life care and made it the scapegoat for poor communication and faulty decision-making. The report's discrediting of a quality assurance mechanism that had the potential for improvement is a disservice to dying patients. Se...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Regnard C

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:the number of older people living in residential and nursing care homes is rising. Loneliness is a major problem for older people, but little is known about the prevalence of loneliness amongst older people living in care homes. AIM:to undertake a systematic review of literature on the prevalence of moderat...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Gardiner C,Laud P,Heaton T,Gott M

更新日期：2020-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:the aim of this study was to compare the effects of a functional tasks exercise programme to a cognitive training programme in older adults with mild cognitive impairment. DESIGN:a single-blind randomised control trial with the intervention group compared with an active control group. SETTING:out-patient cl...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Law LL,Barnett F,Yau MK,Gray MA

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00