Informant ratings of cognitive decline of elderly people: relationship to longitudinal change on cognitive tests

abstract：:Falls pose a major threat to the well-being and quality of life of older people. Falls can result in fractures and other injuries, disability and fear and can trigger a decline in physical function and loss of autonomy. This article synthesises recent published findings on fall risk and mobility assessments and fall p...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Lord SR,Close JCT

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four hundred and fifty patients aged 75 years or older were followed up after discharge from an accident and emergency department. Forty-three per cent of all patients experienced some loss of functional independence. A small number, 5.6%, were readmitted to hospital within 14 days. This group were significantly less ...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Rowland K,Maitra AK,Richardson DA,Hudson K,Woodhouse KW

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Female life expectancy in developed countries has increased by 30 years in the twentieth century. AIM:To determine if there has been an increase in reproductive longevity. METHODS:We analysed age-specific fertility data from birth statistics for the USA, Canada, Japan, France, Sweden, the UK and Australia....

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Brody JA,Grant MD,Frateschi LJ,Miller SC,Zhang H

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Energy intake and resting energy expenditure in relation to body composition were studied in female patients with Alzheimer's disease, multi-infarct dementia and in home-living non-demented elderly women. Patients with Alzheimer's disease tended to have lower body weight and higher energy intake (p = NS) than control ...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Niskanen L,Piirainen M,Koljonen M,Uusitupa M

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two hundred and eighteen subjects, out of 250 individuals taken from a general practice register, returned completed questionnaires giving details about rest cramps, and a further 15 were contacted by telephone. The overall prevalence of rest cramps in the survey population was 37%. The symptom was more prevalent in o...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Naylor JR,Young JB

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Age limits for diagnostics and treatments have been largely removed and replaced by an active diagnostic and treatment practice among the oldest old and has led to concerns about potential overtreatment during the last years of life. METHODS:Use of prescription medication in the last years of life was ass...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Pedersen JK,Jensen TM,Waldorff FB,Søndergaard J,Christensen K

更新日期：2020-10-23 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：AIM:to establish age- and education-adjusted mean psychometric test scores of cognitively normal elderly Chinese people in Singapore. METHOD:155 community-living, cognitively intact elderly Chinese subjects, stratified according to age and education, were selected from the membership lists of senior citizens' clubs an...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Sahadevan S,Tan NJ,Tan T,Tan S

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to evaluate the type and frequency of falls presenting to an inner city casualty department, and to identify modifiable risk factors in these patients. A prospective descriptive study evaluated those over 65 years presenting to an inner city casualty department with falls. Over a 4-week recru...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Davies AJ,Kenny RA

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:antipsychotics are widely used in assisted living (AL facilities). Even more, the prescription of these drugs is gradually increasing since the availability of second-generation atypical antipsychotics. More knowledge is needed on prescription reasons to understand this increasing prevalence. METHODS:cross-...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Larrayadieu A,Abellan van Kan G,Piau A,Soto Martin M,Nourhashemi F,Rolland Y,Vellas B

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Hong Kong, about 15% of older people (aged 80 and above) live in care homes, one of the highest proportions in the world. During the spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome in 2003, the crude fatality rate for older people in care homes that were infected was 72%. After taking the advice of a team of internatio...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Chow L

更新日期：2021-01-08 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：:Within the wide range of topics embraced in the subject of geriatric medicine, a division may be made as far as teaching is concerned into: 1. those that could be taught by other people; 2. those that should be taught by other people; 3. those that cannot be taught by other people. If attitudes throughout the medical ...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Millard PH

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Solitary fibrous tumour of the pleura (SFTP) is a rare primary tumour of the pleura associated with 4% of cases with a paraneoplastic hypoglycaemia, termed Doege-Potter syndrome (DPS). We report a case of DPS presenting with severe coma in a 90-year-old woman. The cause was a malignant SFTP treated with surgical resec...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Avramenko A,Lahjibi-Paulet H,Gibault L,Roussel A,Grand B,Le Pimpec-Barthes F

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The difficulties of 24-hour urine collection are well recognized, especially for elderly people for whom a means of estimating protein excretion from a single casual unit sample would be preferable. We compared measurement of total urinary protein estimated by the protein/creatinine ratio with 24-h urine collection an...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Mitchell SC,Sheldon TA,Shaw AB

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:there is a suggestion that while the age-adjusted incidence of hip fracture in the West may be declining, the incidence may be rising in Asia. OBJECTIVE:this study examines the incidence and post-fracture mortality from 2001 to 2009 among the population aged 65 years and over. METHODS:hip fracture incidenc...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Chau PH,Wong M,Lee A,Ling M,Woo J

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper is an exploratory attempt to examine international differences in the proportion of old people living in non-private households. The aim of the study was to provoke further discussion of the role which institutions play in the care of the elderly in various settings and to examine the effect of certain demo...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Grundy E,Arie T

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma Human Growth Hormone (HGH) was raised in a patient with bronchial carcinoma and hypertrophic pulmonary osteoarthropathy before radiotherapy to the tumour. Though the soft-tissue swelling and pain of hypertrophic osteoarthropathy disappeared two to three weeks after radiotherapy to the carcinoma the HGH plasma l...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Mukherjee SK

更新日期：1975-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Investigation of 21 elderly women with a wide range of renal function showed that plasma creatinine concentrations above 100 mumol/l were associated with glomerular filtration rates (GFR) below 50 ml/min. Plasma 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D concentrations and radio-calcium absorption were directly related to GFR and were l...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Francis RM,Peacock M,Barkworth SA

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Care management and assessment of need are the cornerstones of the community care reforms in the UK. Although much of the research base has been on highly vulnerable older people, in practice, care management has been implemented for a wider group. OBJECTIVE:To examine how intensive care-management at home ...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Challis D,Darton R,Hughes J,Stewart K,Weiner K

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-four incontinent elderly institutionalized subjects with detrusor instability participated in a double-blind placebo-controlled trial of oxybutynin chloride. Patients were randomly assigned to oral oxybutynin 5 mg or placebo twice daily. Administration continued for 8 days; a 6-day washout period was followed b...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Zorzitto ML,Holliday PJ,Jewett MA,Herschorn S,Fernie GR

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is a common clinical syndrome that identifies people at high risk of developing dementia. Although treatments for MCI are currently unavailable, preliminary evidence has identified potential neuro-protective effects of physical activity, which may lead to improved outcomes. However, the...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Barber SE,Clegg AP,Young JB

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A prospective study was carried out on 288 general surgical patients aged 65 years and over. Over 40% of patients suffered no post-operative complication. The commonest post-operative problem was respiratory, with 17% of patients having simple atelectasis, 12% acute bronchitis and 10% pneumonia. Six per cent of patien...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Seymour DG,Vaz FG

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 73-year-old man presented with a huge intra-abdominal mass. Initially a gastrointestinal stromal tumour (GIST) was diagnosed, but his tumour was subsequently classified as a spindle cell sarcoma. Difficulties in the classification of rare intra-abdominal tumours are discussed. ...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Bills V,Iqbal R,Haqqani M,Clague JE

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:it is uncertain as to which measures of gait best predict those who are likely to fall. Our aim was to investigate the associations of gait and gait variability measures with incident falls risk. METHODS:individuals aged 60-86 years (n = 412) were randomly selected from the Tasmanian electoral roll. Average...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Callisaya ML,Blizzard L,Schmidt MD,Martin KL,McGinley JL,Sanders LM,Srikanth VK

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred and sixty centenarians were discovered and followed up for 7 years (1982-88) in Shanghai. The proportion of centenarians in the population was non-significantly greater in the urban than in the rural area and centenarians were in general increasing in both areas over the years. The factors promoting longev...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Zheng ZX,Wang ZS,Zhu HM,Yang JY,Peng HY,Wang LX,Li J,Jiang XW,Yu YF

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resuscitation decisions during the first 6 weeks were analysed for 97 admissions to a psychogeriatric ward of a general teaching hospital. Seventy-seven patients (79%) had a written 'do not resuscitate' (DNR) order on admission and 74 patients (875) had a written DNR order after 6 weeks. Morbidity was assessed with a ...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Dautzenberg PL,Hooyer C,Schonwetter RS,Dermout KM,vd Veer JK,Duursma SA

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:residential aged care facility (RACF) resident numbers are increasing. Residents are frequently frail with substantial co-morbidity, functional and cognitive impairment with high susceptibility to acute illness. Despite living in facilities staffed by health professionals, a considerable proportion of reside...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Dwyer R,Gabbe B,Stoelwinder JU,Lowthian J

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alcohol consumption constitutes a substantial burden of disease. Older people are being admitted to hospital for alcohol problems in increasing numbers. A recent systematic review reports cautious supportive evidence for primary prevention interventions in reducing excessive alcohol consumption in older drinkers, but ...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Crome IB,Crome P

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bone's mechanical competence and its fragility in particular depend to a certain extent on the structure and microstructure of the cortical bone compartment. Beyond bone mineral density (BMD) and bone mineral content, a variety of other features of cortical bone contribute to whole bone's resistance to fracture. Struc...

journal_title：Age and ageing

authors： Augat P,Schorlemmer S

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00