Linking early life risk factors to frailty in old age: evidence from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study.

abstract：BACKGROUND:up to 25% of older people in the USA and other Western countries are anaemic by World Health Organization (WHO) criteria. The objective of this study was to examine the long-term relationships of haemoglobin concentration with all-cause and cause-specific mortality in a community-based sample of Australian a...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Chalmers KA,Knuiman MW,Divitini ML,Bruce DG,Olynyk JK,Milward EA

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An outline is given of simple urodynamic investigations applicable to elderly subjects. The type of patient presenting primarily to geriatric departments with urinary incontinence, whose management is aided by such studies, is described under various clinical groupings. The requirement for urodynamic studies and the b...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Eastwood HD

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:patient empowerment, through which patients become self-determining agents with some control over their health and healthcare, is a common theme across health policies globally. Most care for older people is in the acute setting, but there is little evidence to inform the delivery of empowering hospital care...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Selman LE,Daveson BA,Smith M,Johnston B,Ryan K,Morrison RS,Pannell C,McQuillan R,de Wolf-Linder S,Pantilat SZ,Klass L,Meier D,Normand C,Higginson IJ

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:to describe the characteristics and survival of the oldest old in England and Wales. DESIGN:retrospective analysis of the oldest old from a population-based cohort study. SETTING:population-based study in England and Wales: two rural and three urban sites. METHODS:two types of analyses were conducted: (i) ...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Xie J,Matthews FE,Jagger C,Bond J,Brayne C

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:observational studies do not always find positive associations between physical activity and muscle strength despite intervention studies consistently showing that exercise improves strength in older adults. In previous analyses of the MRC National Survey of Health and Development (NSHD), the 1946 British ...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Dodds R,Kuh D,Aihie Sayer A,Cooper R

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:increasing public costs for the care of the elderly have created fundamental changes that are redefining the basic principles of health care funding. In the past, overall institutional funding was predominantly tied to spending. In view of the limitations of this approach to funding long-term care faciliti...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Tousignant M,Hébert R,Dubuc N,Simoneau F,Dieleman L

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:pre-discharge occupational therapy (OT) home visits are an integral part of the discharge process for older adults in acute care. There is limited quality research demonstrating that these pre-discharge visits enhance the health and well being of older adults. This paper outlines the perceptions of older adu...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Atwal A,McIntyre A,Craik C,Hunt J

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deprescribing has gained interest recently, driven by an ageing population seeing an increasing number living with multiple long-term conditions. This, coupled with disease-specific guidelines derived from clinical trials in younger people, has led to an increase in exposure to polypharmacy and the associated therapeu...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Woodford HJ,Fisher J

更新日期：2019-11-01 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：:Brucellosis is the most commonly reported zoonosis. Nervous system participation can occur at any stage of the disease either in acute or subacute or chronic form. Isolated nervous system involvement or neurobrucellosis is a relatively rare form of the disease. We describe an unusual case of an older patient with deme...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Spyrou A,Natsis KS,Papamichalis E,Mourtzinos H

更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Care home medicine has been an under-researched area, but over the last decade there has been a substantial growth in publications. Most of these have focused on the 'geriatric giants' of falls, incontinence and mental health issues (especially dementia, behavioural disturbance and depression) as well as other key top...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Burns E,Nair S

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Studies have shown strong associations between disability, social support and depressive symptoms in older people; but socio-economic effects are less clear and little is known about the role of health locus of control. OBJECTIVE:To examine the roles of physical health, disability, social support, socio-eco...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Harris T,Cook DG,Victor C,Rink E,Mann AH,Shah S,DeWilde S,Beighton C

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among 352 residents of a home for the elderly, who were fully mobile and devoid of most predisposing factors for bacteriuria, 19% of men and 27% of women had two positive cultures within two months. Positive conversion at one year among men and women negative at entry was 11% and 23% respectively, negative conversion ...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Kasviki-Charvati P,Drolette-Kefakis B,Papanayiotou PC,Dontas AS

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:national reports have highlighted deficiencies in care provided to older surgical patients and suggested a role for innovative, collaborative, inter-specialty models of care. The extent of geriatrician-led perioperative services in the UK (excluding orthogeriatric services) has not previously been describe...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Partridge JS,Collingridge G,Gordon AL,Martin FC,Harari D,Dhesi JK

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:the Falls Risk for Older People in the Community assessment (FROP-Com) tool was designed for use in targeted multi-factorial falls prevention programmes. It fills the gap between the short screening tools and the longer assessment tools, e.g. the physiological profile assessment (PPA). The aim of this study ...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Russell MA,Hill KD,Blackberry I,Day LM,Dharmage SC

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:a fall occurs when an individual experiences a loss of balance from which they are unable to recover. Assessment of balance recovery ability in older adults may therefore help to identify individuals at risk of falls. The purpose of this 12-month prospective study was to assess whether the ability to recover...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Carty CP,Cronin NJ,Nicholson D,Lichtwark GA,Mills PM,Kerr G,Cresswell AG,Barrett RS

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic simple glaucoma is a common disease in old age and lowering intraocular pressure is the treatment strategy. Although this can be achieved surgically, medical treatment with eye drops is more often prescribed. Beta-antagonists are the class of drug most often chosen, although other medical therapies are availab...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Diggory P,Franks WA

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a study of two representative population samples of 70-year-olds, one of which was followed up at 75 years of age, digitalis treatment was associated with oestrogen-like metabolic effects, indicated by changes in the composition of the plasma phospholipid fraction. Digitalis treatment, at least at these ages, is re...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Persson G,Landahl S,Svanborg A

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vaginal pessaries are widely considered to be a safe alternative to surgery in older women. We report a case of near fatal septicaemia in a 75-year-old woman associated with a shelf pessary, the presence of which was identified during an exploratory laparotomy. This case highlights the importance of the gynaecological...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Wheeler LD,Lazarus R,Torkington J,O'Mahony MS,Woodhouse KW

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:the relationship between proximity to death and the amount of care provided by general practitioners (GPs) is largely unknown. OBJECTIVE:to examine the influence of the proximity to death on the frequency and length of GP contacts in the oldest old. STUDY DESIGN:this population-based follow-up study includ...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Blom JW,Lemmens SP,Assendelft WJ,Eekhof JA,Gussekloo J

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The risk/benefit ratio of warfarin therapy changes in the over 75s, when haemorrhagic side-effects become more common. These may not always be reported in the literature. CASE REPORT:A woman of 80 years, on long-term warfarin therapy presented with an acute dissecting thoracic aortic aneurysm; on investigat...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Blunt DM,Impallomeni MG

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple random sample of older people composed of 215 men and 272 women aged 62 years and over was examined in Edinburgh in 1968-9. After one year, 86 per cent of the men and 79 per cent of the women were re-examined; 7 per cent of the men and 4 per cent of the women had died and the remainder were not re-examined fo...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Milne JS,Chopin JM

更新日期：1975-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Dementia is a predictor of death and institutionalization. It is less clear if variations in cognition within the normal range predict adverse outcomes. OBJECTIVE:To determine if variation at the high end of cognitive test scores predicts mortality or institutionalization, independent of the effect of poten...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： St John PD,Montgomery PR,Kristjansson B,McDowell I

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:To determine the presentation, course and duration of delirium in hospitalized older people. DESIGN:Observational cohort study. SETTING:Inpatient surgical and medical wards at a university hospital. PARTICIPANTS:432 people over the age of 65. MEASUREMENTS:All participants were screened daily for confusio...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Rudberg MA,Pompei P,Foreman MD,Ross RE,Cassel CK

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：Background:orthostatic hypotension (OH) is a common disabling condition associated with increased morbidity and mortality. Much of the evidence available is derived from younger populations with chronic neurological disease leading to uncertainty for the diagnosis and management of older people. Objective:to provide a...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Frith J,Parry SW

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:in the UK the Department of Health recommends influenza vaccination for elderly people resident in institutional care. However, the efficacy of vaccination may be reduced in very frail elderly people with functional impairment, undernutrition and multiple pathologies. Nutritional and functional status is c...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Potter JM,O'Donnel B,Carman WF,Roberts MA,Stott DJ

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:while it is well established that individual patient preferences regarding cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) may change with time, the stability of population preferences, especially during periods of social and economic change, has received little attention. OBJECTIVE:to elicit the resuscitation preferen...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Cotter PE,Simon M,Quinn C,O'Keeffe ST

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inappropriate prescribing (IP) is a common and serious global healthcare problem in elderly people, leading to increased risk of adverse drug reactions (ADRs), polypharmacy being the main risk factor for both IP and ADRs. IP in older people is highly prevalent but preventable; hence screening tools for IP have been de...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： O'Mahony D,Gallagher PF

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From December 1982 to August 1983, a total of 242 oesophago-gastro-duodenoscopies were performed for 208 elderly patients in the Geriatric Unit, Princess Margaret Hospital, Hong Kong. These were done as part of an investigatory procedure in the Geriatric Unit, the first of its kind in Hong Kong. In the 9-month survey,...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Lee YC,Tam HC

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：CASE REPORT:An elderly woman with poor nutritional intake developed profound hypophosphataemia and hypokalaemia following the institution of nasogastric feeding. DISCUSSION:Refeeding syndrome is well recognized in certain undernourished groups of patients, but may not be so well known to physicians looking after elder...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Mallet M

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00