Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2000 - Abstracts

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2000
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A case of mistaken identity: pseudodementia is really predementia.(response to article by Pieter Jelle Visser and others in this issue, p. 479)(Editorial)SeniorsBurton V. Reifler
A case-oriented Web-based curriculum in geriatrics for third-year medical students.SeniorsDaniel Swagerty Jr, Stephanie Studenski, Rosemary Laird, Sally Rigler
A clinimetric evaluation of specialized geriatric care for rural dwelling, frail older people.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsKenneth Rockwood, Colin Powell, Karen Stadnyk, Daniel Carver, Kathleen M. MacPherson, Hope E. Beanlands, Paul Stolee, Vince Salazar Thomas, Robert S. Tonks
Acute stroke in very old people: clinical features and predictors of in-hospital mortality.SeniorsA. Arboix, L. Garcia-Eroles, J. Massons, M. Oliveres, C. Targa
A double-blind, placebo-controlled, multicenter study of Cerebrolysin for Alzheimer's disease.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsChul-Young Bae, Choo-Yon Cho, Kyunhee Cho, Byoung Hoon Oh, Choi Kyoung Gyu, LeeHong Soo, Seung Pil Jung, Dae Hyun Kim, Sangdo Lee, Gyu-Dong Choi, Hangsuk Cho, Hotaek Lee
A drug use evaluation of selected opioid and nonopioid analgesics in the nursing facility setting.SeniorsGena W. Cramer, Bradley S. Galer, Marilyn A. Mendelson, Gregory D. Thompson
Advance directive preferences among subpopulations of Asian nursing home residents in the Pacific Northwest.SeniorsGina Vaughn, Elizabeth Kiyasu, Wayne C. McCormick
Aerobic exercise training-induced reductions in abdominal fat and glucose-stimulated insulin responses in middle-aged and older men.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsJames M. Hagberg, Richard E. Pratley, Donald R. Dengel, Ellen M. Rogus, Denis C. Muller, Andrew P. Goldberg
After aging...(Editorial)SeniorsJoanne Lynn, Shan Cretin
Age differences in care practices and outcomes for hospitalized patients with cancer.SeniorsMary Beth Hamel, Russell S. Phillips, Neil S. Wenger, Joanne Lynn, Alfred F. Connors Jr., Julia Hannum Rose, Elizabeth E. O'Toole, V.Dawson Neal, Charles Thomas, Harvey J. Cohen
Age-related differences in care preferences, treatment decisions, and clinical outcomes of seriously ill hospitalized adults: lessons from SUPPORT.(Study to Understand Prognoses and Preferences for Outcomes and Risks of Treatment)(Project)SeniorsMary Beth Hamel, Joan M. Teno, Kenneth E. Covinsky, Joanne Lynn, Albert W. Wu, Norman A. Desbiens, Anthony Galanos, Ressell S. Phillips
Aging is associated with endothelial dysfunction in the human forearm vasculature.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsNabil Andrawis, Drew S. Jones, Darrell R. Abernethy
Aging-related decline of gonadal function in healthy men: correlation with body composition and lipoproteins.SeniorsLicia Denti, Giuseppe Pasolini, Laura Sanfelici, Raffaella Benedetti, Alessandra Cecchetti, Gian Paolo Ceda, Fabrizio Ablondi, Giorgio Valenti
Agreement between older subjects and proxy informants on history of surgery and childbirth.SeniorsJessica M. Robbins, Christina M. Wolfson, Howard Bergman, A. Mark Clarfield, Simcha Kleiman, Warren Bilker, Mona Baumgarten
A high diagnostic rate in older patients attending an integrated syncope clinic.SeniorsJ. Youde, C. Ruse, S. Parker, M. Fotherby
A loading dose of tamoxifen followed by a standard dose in frail older women with breast cancer is feasible and effective.(Letter to the Editor)(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsL. Repetto, A. Venturino, D. Comandini, S. Parodi, C. Granetto, G. Porcile, R.A. Audisio, R. Rosso
Alternative medicine use in older Americans.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsMary Beth Hamel, Russell S. Phillips, David F. Foster, David M. Eisenberg
Ambulatory geriatric clinical care and services.(an American Geriatrics Society position statement)(Statistical Data Included)Seniors 
Annotated bibliography of palliative care and end of life care.(Bibliography)SeniorsKnight Steel, Caroline Vitale, Piljoo Whang
A population-based study on motor performance and white matter lesions in older women.SeniorsIngmar Skoog, Xinxin Guo, Michael Matousek, Lena Larsson, Sigurdur Palsson, Valter Sundh, Bertil Steen
Appropriateness of the decision to transfer nursing facility residents to the hospital.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsMartin Lee, Debra Saliba, Raynard Kington, Joan Buchanan, Robert Bell, Mingming Wang, Michael Herbst, Daniel Lee, Denise Sur, Lisa Rubenstein
A prospective study of the effect of fracture on measured physical performance: results from the MacArthur Study - MAC.SeniorsGail A. Greendale, Tracy A. DeAmicis, Alexander Bucur, Phil Bretsky, John W. Rowe, David B. Reuben, Teresa Seeman
A randomized controlled trial of exercise to improve outcomes of acute hospitalization in older adults.SeniorsHilary Siebens, Harriet Aronow, Diane Edwards, Zahra Ghasemi
A randomized trial of weighted vest use in ambulatory older adults: strength, performance, and quality of life outcomes.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsGail A. Greendale, David B. Reuben, George J. Salem, Jean T. Young, Mark Damesyn, Michael Marion, Man-Ying Wang
A ray of hope for older Nigerians.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsAdesola Ogunniyi
Are we improving the quality of nursing home care: the case of pressure ulcers.SeniorsDan R. Berlowitz, Herminio Q. Bezerra, Gary H. Brandeis, Boris Kader, Jennifer J. Anderson
A series of cases of dementia presenting with PTSD symptoms in World War II combat veterans.(post traumatic stress disorder)SeniorsDeirdre Johnston
A serious outbreak of parainfluenza type 3 on a nursing unit.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsJ. Todd Faulks, Paul J. Drinka, Peter Shult
Ask about daytime sleepiness.(editorial)(Brief Article)SeniorsNaresh M. Punjabi, Edward Haponik
A specialized home care intervention improves survival among older post-surgical cancer patients.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsRuth McCorkle, Neville E. Strumpf, Isaac F. Nuamah, Diane C. Adler, Mary E. Cooley, Lusk Jepson, Michael Torosian
Assessment of adherence to renal dosing guidelines in long-term care facilities.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsMichel Bedard, Alexandra Papaioannou, Jo-Anne Clarke, Glenda Campbell
Assessment of pain in cognitively impaired older adults: a comparison of pain assessment tools and their use by nonprofessional caregivers.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsKenneth Brummel-Smith, Marla R. London, Harry Krulewitch, CVictoria Skakel, Glenda J. Lundstedt, Heidi Thoamson
Association between medication supplies and healthcare costs in older adults from an urban healthcare system.SeniorsKevin T. Stroupe, Michael D. Murray, Timothy E. Stump, Christopher M. Callahan
Association of Alzheimer's disease and smoking: the case for sibling controls.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsSara M. Dehanne, Douglas Y. Rowland, Tatiana M. Riedel, Mario A. Cleves
A statement of principles: Toward improved care of older patients in surgical and medical specialties.(The Interdiscipinary Leadership Group of the American Geriatrics Society Project to Increase Geriatrics Expertise in Surgical and Medical Specialties)(Statistical Data Included)Seniors 
Atrial fibrillation and cognitive disorders in older people.SeniorsToni Sabatini, Giovanni B. Frisoni, Piera Barbisoni, Giuseppe Bellelli, Kenza Rozzini, Marco Trabucchi
Attrition in an exercise intervention: a comparison of early and later dropouts.SeniorsJulia A. Schmidt, Cynthia Gruman, Mary B. King, Leslie I. Wolfson
Benzodiazepines and the risk of falls in nursing home residents.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsWayne A. Ray, Purushottam B. Thapa, Patricia Gideon
Binocular vision in older people with adventitious visual impairment: sometimes one eye is better than two.SeniorsJocelyn Faubert, Olga Overbury
Blood transfusion administration in seriously Ill patients: an evaluation of SUPPORT data.(Study to Understand Prognoses and Preferences for Outcomes and Risks of Treatment)Seniors 
Body-mass index and mortality in a prospective cohort.(reviews of the geriatric literature (abstract))(Brief Article)SeniorsEE Calle, JM Thun, Petrelli JM, C. Rodriguez, Heath CW Jr.
Body position used by healthy and frail older adults to rise from the floor.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsJessica Ulbrich, Aarti Raheja, Neil B. Alexander
Breast cancer screening for older women in a primary care practice.SeniorsMary Beth Hamel, Ellen P. McCarthy, Julie Tishler, David M. Rind
Breast cancer screening in older women.(American Geriatrics Society (AGS) position statement)(Statistical Data Included)Seniors 
Can the control of bodily orientation be significantly improved in a group of older adults with a history of falls?(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsDebra J. Rose, Sean Clark
Care for depression in HMO patients aged 65 and older.SeniorsJurgen Unutzer, Thomas R. Belin, Gregory Simon, Moctar Datt, Wayne Katon, Donald Patrick
Catechol-O-methyltransferase (COMT) inhibitors in Parkinson's disease.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsCheryl Waters
Celiac disease in older people.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsVicky Tai, Morgan Crowe, Shaun O'Keeffe
Cellular ionic alterations with age: relation to hypertension and diabetes.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsMario Barbagallo, Raj K. Gupta, Ligia J. Dominguez, Lawrence M. Resnick
Chair and bed rise performance in ADL-impaired congregate housing residents.(activities of daily living)SeniorsN.B. Alexander, A.T. Galecki, L.V. Nyquist, M.R. Hofmeyer, M.S. Grunawalt, M.L. Grenier, J.L. Medell
Change in disability follows inpatient treatment for late life depression.SeniorsDavid W. Oslin, Joel Streim, Ira R. Katz, William S. Edell, Thomas TenHave
Characteristics of motor vehicle crashes of drivers with dementia of the Alzheimer type.SeniorsD.B. Carr, J. Duchek, J.C. Morris
Characteristics of nondisabled older persons who perform poorly in objective tests of lower extremity function.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsRobert Wallace, Jack M. Guralnik, Marco Pahor, Luigi Ferrucci, Brenda W.J.H. enninx, Suzanne G. Leveille, Maria-Chiara Corti, Tamara B. Harris, Richard J. Havlik
Chiropractic care for patients aged 55 years and older: report from a practice-based research program.SeniorsCheryl Hawk, Cynthia R. Long, Karen T. Boulanger, Elaine Morshhauser, Arlan W. Fuhr
Clinical characteristics and prognosis of myasthenia gravis in older people.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsAmelia Evoli, Anna Paola Batocchi, Cristiana Minisci, Chiara Di Schino, Pietro Tonali
Clinical, epidemiological, and policy implications of minimum data set validity.(response to Ann L. Gruber-Baldini and others in this issue, p. 1601)(Editorial)SeniorsMargaret G. Stineman, Greg Maislin
Closing the gap - provider and researcher responsibility.(response to Verona Hegarty and others in this issue, p. 735)(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsRisa J. Lavizzo-Mourey, Shiriki Kumanyika
Cognitive decline is associated with systemic oxidative stress: The EVA study.(Etude du Vieillissement Arteriel)(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsClaudine Berr, Bertrand Balansard, Josianne Arnaud, Anne-Marie Roussel, Annick Alperovitch
Cognitive impairment without dementia in older people: prevalence, vascular risk factors, impact on disability: The Italian Longitudinal Study on Aging.SeniorsDomenico Inzitari, Antonio Di Carlo, Marzia Baldereschi, Luigi Amaducci, Stefania Maggi, Francesco Grigoletto, Guglielmo Scarlato
Cognitive models of physicians' legal standard and personal judgments of competency in patients with Alzheimer's disease.SeniorsDaniel C. Marson, Kelly S. Earnst, Lindy E. Harrell
Colon cancer screening (USPSTF recommendation).(AGS Clinical Practice Committee)(U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, American Geriatrics Society)Seniors 
Combined behavioral and drug therapy for urge incontinence in older women.SeniorsKathryn L. Burgio, Julie L. Locher, Patricia S. Goode
Communication and decision-making in seriously ill patients: findings of the SUPPORT project.(Study to Understand Prognoses and Preferences for Outcomes and Risks of Treatment, Hospitalized Elderly Longitudinal)(Project)SeniorsMary Beth Hamel, Russell S. Phillips, Joan M. Teno, Kenneth E. Covinsky, Joanne Lynn, Jon D. Fuller, Kristine Yaffe, C. Bree Johnston
Community characteristics associated with elder abuse.SeniorsGerald J. Jogerst, Jeffrey D. Dawson, Arthur J. Hartz, John W. Ely, L..A. Schweitzer
Comparison of informal caregiving by black and white older adults in a community population.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsLaurel A. Beckett, Denis A. Evans, Judith J. McCann, Liesi E. Hebert, Martha Clare Morris, Paul A. Scherr
Comparison of rectal and infrared ear temperatures in older hospital inpatients.SeniorsSimon Smitz, Theodora Giagoultsis, Walthere Dewe, Adelin Albert
Completed suicide among older patients in primary care practices: a controlled study.SeniorsYeates Conwell, Jeffrey M. Lyness, Paul Duberstein, Christopher Cox, Larry Seidlitz, Andrea DiGiorgio, Eric D. Caine
Consistency of physicians' legal standard and personal judgments of competency in patients with Alzheimer's disease.SeniorsDaniel C. Marson, Kelly S. Earnst, Farruhk Jamil, Alfred Bartolucci, Lindy E. Harrell
Coronary artery calcification in older adults with minimal clinical or subclinical cardiovascular disease.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsAnne B. Newman, Barbara Naydeck, Kim Sutton-Tyrrell, Daniel Edmundowicz, John Gottdiener, Lewis H. Kuller
Country profile: Israel.SeniorsA. Mark Clarfield, Ari Paltiel, Y. Gindin, B. Morginstin, T. Dwolatzky
Culture specific implications for decline in ADL and IADL.(activities of daily living, instrumental acitvities of daily living)(response to Tatsuro Ishizaki and others in this issue, p. 1424)(Editorial)SeniorsWayne C. McCormick, Michi Yukawa
Daytime sleepiness predicts mortality and cardiovascular disease in older adults.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsAnne B. Newman, Charles F. Spiekerman, Paul Enright, David Lefkowitz, Teri Manolio, Charles F. Reynolds, John Robbins
Decision-making and outcomes of prolonged ICU stays in seriously ill patients.(intensive care unit)(Study to Understand Prognoses and Preferences for Outcomes and Risks of Treatment, Hospitalized Elderly Longitudinal)(Project)SeniorsMary Beth Hamel, Joan M. Teno, Neil S. Wenger, Joanne Lynn, Albert W. Wu, Frank E. Harrell Jr., Elliot Fisher, Donald J. Murphy
Decision-making capacity to execute a health care proxy: development and testing of guidelines.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsMathy Mezey, Jeanne Teresi, Gloria Ramsey, Ethel Mitty, Bobrowitz Tracy
Delirium is independently associated with poor functional recovery after hip fracture.SeniorsEdward R. Marcantonio, Jonathan M. Flacker, Mary Michaels, Neil M. Resnick
Delivery of preventive services to older black patients using neighborhood health centers.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsPaul J. Wright, Richard H. Fortinsky, Kenneth E. Covinsky, Philip A. Anderson, C. Seth Landefeld
Dementia diagnostic guidelines: methodologies, results, and implementation costs.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsGary W. Small, Cornelia Beck, Marisue Cody, Elaine Souder, Minghang Zhang
Depressed mood and body mass index as predictors of muscle strength decline in old men.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsBrenda W.J.H. Penninx, Taina Rantanen, Jack M. Guralnik, Kamal Masaki, Taru Lintunen, Dan Foley
Depressive symptoms and risk of Alzheimer's disease in more highly educated older people.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsLex M. Bouter, Mirjam I. Geerlins, Ben Schmand, Arjan W. Braam, Cees Jonker, Willem Van Tilburg
Description of the SUPPORT intervention.(Study to Understand Prognoses and Preferences for Outcomes and Risks of Treatment, Hospitalized Elderly Longitudinal)(Project)SeniorsJoanne Lynn, Barbara Kreling, Patricia Murphy, Erica Kathyrn, Marguerite Stevens, Jennie Dulac
Determinants of exercise tolerance after acute myocardial infraction in older persons.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsNiccolo Marchionni, Francesco Fattirolli, Stefano Fumagalli, Neil B. Oldridge, Franesco Del Lungo, Franesco Bonechi, Laura Russo, Alessandro Cartei, Giuseppe Mottino, Costanza Burgisser, Giulio Masotti
Diabetes mellitus in older adults: underdiagnosis and undertreatment.(Editorial)SeniorsJeffrey B. Halter
Disease severity and health-related quality of life across different chronic conditions.SeniorsNiccolo Marchionni, Alessandro Cartei, Giulio Masotti, Luigi Ferrucci, Stefania Bandinelli, Samuele Baldasseroni, Walter De Alfieri, Donatella Calvani, Alessio Baldini
Distinction between preclinical Alzheimer's disease and depression.SeniorsPieter Jelle Visser, Frans R.J. Verhey, Rudolf W.H.M. Ponds, Arnold Kester, Jellemer Jolles
Do hospital fall prevention programs work?: a systematic review.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsDavid Oliver, Adrian Hopper, Paul Seed
Driving cessation in older men with incident dementia.SeniorsKamal H. Masaki, Lon R. White, Daniel J. Foley, G. Webster Ross
Dually incontinent nursing home residents: clinical characteristics and treatment differences.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsDavid B. Reuben, Lillian Chiang, Joseph Ouslander, Jack Schnelle
Dying with acute respiratory failure or multiple organ system failure with sepsis.(Study to Understand Prognoses and Preferences for Outcomes and Risks of Treatment, Hospitalized Elderly Longitudinal)(Project)SeniorsMary Beth Hamel, Neal V. Dawson, Joanne Lynn, Norman A. Desbiens, Zhenshao Zhong, Emese Somogyi-Zalud
Dying with cancer: patients' function, symptoms, and care preferences as death approaches.(Project)SeniorsRussell S. Phillips, Ellen P. McCarthy, Joanne Lynn, Zhenshao Zhong, Reed E. Drews
Dying with end stage liver disease with cirrhosis: insights from SUPPORT.(Study to Understand Prognoses and Preferences for Outcomes and Risks of Treatment)(Project)SeniorsNeal V. Dawson, Joanne Lynn, Zhenshao Zhong, Katalin Roth, Marie Borum
Dying with lung cancer or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: insights from SUPPORT.(Study to Understand Prognoses and Preferences for Outcomes and Risks of Treatment)SeniorsRussell S. Phillips, Joanne Lynn, Albert W. Wu, Alfred F. Connors Jr., Frank E. Harrell Jr., Norman A. Desbiens, Zhenshao Zhong, Michael T. Claessens
Effect of aging on the relationship between multiple risk factors and waist circumference.SeniorsSatoshi Iwao, Nobuko Iwao, Denis C. Muller, Dariush Elahi, Hiroshi Shimokata, Reubin Andres
Effect of enalapril and nifedipine on orthostatic hypotension in older hypertensive patients.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsInna Slavachevsky, Rita Rachmani, Zohar Levi, David Brosh, Merav Lidar, Mordchai Ravid
Effect of voluntary weight loss on bone mineral density in older overweight women.SeniorsWilliam B. Applegate, Dinnie Chao, Mark A. Espeland, Deborah Farmer, Thomas C. Register, Leon Lenchik, Walter H. Ettinger Jr.
Effects of a multicomponent intervention on functional outcomes and process of care in hospitaized older patients: a randomized controlled trial of Acute Care for Elders (ACE) in a community hospital.SeniorsRichard H. Fortinsky, Kenneth E. Covinsky, C. Seth Landefeld, Robert M. Palmer, Steven R. Counsell, Carolyn M. Holder, Laura L. Liebenauer, Denise M. Kersevic, Linda M. Quinn, Kyle R. Allen
Effects of an abilities-focused program of morning care on residents who have dementia and on caregivers.SeniorsDonna L. Wells, Pamela Dawson, Souraya Sidani, Dorothy Craig, Dorothy Pringle
Effects of T'ai Chi training on function and quality of life indicators in older adults with osteoarthritis.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsTina M. Manos, Catherine A. Hartman, Christa Winter, Dwight M. Hartman, Baiqing Li, John C. Smith
Elderly persons' last six months of life: findings from the Hospitalized Elderly Longitudinal Project.(Study to Understand Prognoses and Preferences for Outcomes and Risks of Treatment, Hospitalized Elderly Longitudinal)(Project)SeniorsMary Beth Hamel, Joanne Lynn, Zhenshao Zhong, Emese Somogyi-Zalud
Emotional well-being predicts subsequent functional independence and survival.SeniorsGlenn V. Ostir, Kyriakos S. Markides, Sandra A. Black, James S. Goodwin
End-of-life decision making, therapeutic jurisprudence, and preventive law: Hierarchical v. concensus-based decision-making model.(reviews of the geriatric literature (review))(Brief Article)SeniorsHafemeister TL
Epidemiology of sarcopenia.SeniorsL. Joseph Melton III, Sundeep Khosla, Cynthia S. Crowson, Michael K. O'Connor, W. Michael O'Fallon, B. Lawrence Riggs
ERT and cognitive decline.(estrogen replacement therapy)(response to K.A. Matthews et al., Journal of the American Geriatric Society, vol. 47, p. 518, 1999; includes authors' reply)(Letter to the Editor)SeniorsKaren Matthews, Kristine Yaffe, C. Cunningham, D. O'Neill, M. Rowan, Jane Cauley, Joseph M. Zmuda
Erythrocyte plasma membranes obtained from centenarians show different functional properties.(Letter to the Editor)(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsLaura Mazzanti, Rosa Anna Rabini, Enrico Petruzzi, Roberto Staffolani, Eleanora Salvolini, Arianna Vignini, Mauro Braconi, Claudio Franceschi
Estrogen replacement therapy and MRI-demonstrated cerebral infarcts, white matter changes, and brain atrophy in older women: the Cardiovascular Health Study.(magnetic resonance imaging)SeniorsR. Luoto, T. Manolio, E. Meilahn, R. Bhadelia, C. Furberg, L. Cooper, M. Kraut
Estrogen replacement therapy, cognition, and cerebral changes by MRI in the Cardiovascular Health Study.(response to article by R. Luoto and others in this issue, p. 467)(Editorial)SeniorsLaura H. Coker, Sally A. Shumaker
Exceptional familial clustering for extreme longevity in humans.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsThomas Perls, Maureen Shea-Drinkwater, Jennifer Bowen-Flynn, Sammy Kang, Erin Joyce, Mark Daly, Stephanie Brewster, Louis Kunkel, Annibale Puca
Excess mortality following vertebral fracture.(Editorial)SeniorsL. Joseph Melton III
Exercise and older patients: guidelines for the clinician.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsColleen Christmas, Ross A. Andersen
Exercise and weight loss in obese older adults with knee osteoarthritis: a preliminary study.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsStephen P. Messier, W. Jack Rejeski, Walter H. Ettinger, Richard F. Loeser, Michelle N. Mitchell, Gianfranco Valle, Timothy P. Morgan
Expert physician recommendations and current practice patterns for evaluating and treating men with osteoporotic hip fracture.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsCathleen Colon-Emeric, Liza Yballe, Richard Sloane, Carl F. Pieper, Kenneth W. Lyles
Extent and determinants of hospitalization in a cohort of older disabled people.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsHermann Brenner, Ulrike Kliebsch, Harald Siebert
Factors related to sleep disturbance in older adults experiencing knee pain or knee pain with radiographic evidence of knee osteoarthritis.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsSally A. Shumaker, Timothy Craven, Mary Ann Sevick, Sara. Wilcox, Gretchen A. Brenes, Doug Levine
Families' perception of the added value of hospice in the nursing home.SeniorsWendy M. Baer, Laura C. Hanson
Family satisfaction with end-of-life care in seriously ill hospitalized adults.SeniorsRussell S. Phillips, Joan M. Teno, Neil S. Wenger, Joanne Lynn, Albert W. Wu, William Knaus, Norman A. Desbiens, Rose Baker, Barbara Kreling, Ann M. Damiano, Haya R. Rubin, Mary J. Roach, Albert F. Connors Jr.
Fatigue in an older population.SeniorsSolomon Liao, Bruce A. Ferrell
For every thing there is a season.(Editorial)SeniorsWilliam B. Applegate
Fulminant chemical hepatitis possibly associated with donepezil and sertraline therapy.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsMargaret M. Verrico, David A. Nace, Adele L. Towers
Functional status before hospitalization in acutely ill older adults: validity and clinical importance of retrospective reports.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsKenneth E. Covinsky, Robert M. Palmer, Steven R. Counsell, Zachary M. Pine, Louise C. Walter, Mary-Margaret Chren
Gender differences in the treatment of cerebrovascular disease.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsSubha Ramani, Susan Byrne-Logan, Karen M. Freund, Arlene Ash, Wei Yu, Mark A. Moskowitz
Geographic variation in hospice use prior to death.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsBeth A. Virnig, Sara Kind, Marshall McBean, Elliott Fisher
Geriatric-based versus general wards for older acute medical patients: a randomized comparison of outcomes and use of resources.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsKjell Asplund, Yngve Gustafson, Catrine Jacobsson, Gosta. Bucht, Anders Wahlin, Jan-Olof Blom, Karl-Axel Angquist
Glycemic control in older subjects with Type 2 diabetes mellitus in the Fremantle Diabetes Study.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsD.F. Bruce, Davis. W.A., T.M.E. Davis
Glycemic control of older adults with type 2 diabetes: findings from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1988-1994.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsRonald I. Shorr, Lonneke V. Franse, Helaine E. Resnick, Mauro Di Bari, Karen C. Johnson, Marco Pahor
Guidelines abstracted from consensus recommendations for the management of chronic heart failure.(Statistical Data Included)Seniors 
Health care for older persons: a country profile - Spain.SeniorsJose Manuel Ribera Casado, Alfonso J. Cruz-Jentoft, Gonzalo Bravo Fernandez de Araoz, Francisco Guillen Llera
Health care for older persons, a country profile: the Netherlands.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsJ.Frank Hoek, Brenda W.J.H. Penninx, Gerard J. Ligthart, Miel W. Ribbe
Health care utilization by old-old long-term care facility residents: How do Medicare fee-for-service and capitation rates compare?(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsJoseph G. Ouslander, V.L. Phillips, Wendy Paul, Edmund R. Becker, Dan Osterweil
Health, functional, and psychological outcomes among older persons with chronic dizziness.SeniorsMary E. Tinetti, Thomas M. Gill, Cnristianna S. Williams
Higher basal cortisol predicts verbal memory loss in postmenopausal women: Rancho Bernardo Study.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsElizabeth Barrett-Connor, Gail A. Greendale, Teresa Seeman, Donna Kritz-Silverstein
Hodgkin's disease survival by stage and age.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsB.J. Kennedy, Amy M. Fremgen, Herman R. Menck
Home hospital care.(response to Bruce Leff et al., Journal of the American Geriatric Society, vol. 47, p. 697, 1999; includes authors' reply)(Letter to the Editor)SeniorsBruce Leff, Jochanan Stessman, Robert Hammerman-Rozenberg, Yoram Maaravi, Aaron Cohen, Linda Burton, Susan Guido, William B. Greenough III, Donald Steinwachs, John R. Burton
Hormone replacement therapy use in urban older women attending meal sites: associations with sociodemographic and health characteristics and use of preventive services.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsKalpana Ganesan, Senait Teklehamianot, Joel B. Swartz
Hospitalization in the Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE): rates, concomitants, and predictors.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsG. Paul Eleazer, Darryl Wieland, Vicki L. Lamb, Shae R. Sutton, Rebecca Boland, Marleen Clark, Susan Friedman, Kennth Brummel-Smith
How much do persons with Alzheimer's disease cost Medicare?(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsFrank A. Sloan, Donald H. Taylor Jr.
How the balanced budget refinement act of 1999 will affect geriatric medicine.SeniorsSusan C. Emmer
Idiopathic senile gait disorders are signs of subclinical disease.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsB.R. Bloem, J. Gussekloo, A.M. Lagaay, E.J. Remarque, J. Haan, R.G.J. Wetstendorp
Immunologic response to a single dose of tetanus toxoid in older people.SeniorsTamy Shohat, Esther Marva, Yoram Sivan, Ilana Lerman, Avraham Mates, Avital Cohen
Impact of depressive symptoms on hospitalization risk in community-dwelling older persons.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsAnthony N. Galanos, Benjamin Y. Huang, Joan Cornoni-Huntley, Judith C. Hays, Robert R. Huntley, Dan G. Blazer
Implementation of an interdisciplinary behavior management program.SeniorsTerry Lynn Hughes, Annette M. Medina-Walpole
Implementing the second generation social health maintenance organization.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsRobert Newcomer, Charlene Harrington, Robert Kane
Improvement in quality-of-life measures and stimulation of weight gain after treatment with megestrol acetate oral suspension in geriatric cachexia: results of a double-blind, placebo-controlled study.SeniorsShing-Shing Yeh, Suh-Yuh Wu, Tai-Ping Lee, Jeffery S. Olson, Michael R. Stevens, Troy Dixon, Robert J. Porcelli, Michael W. Schuster
Improving advance care planning: lessons from POLST.(Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment)(response to Melinda A. Lee and others in this issue, p. 1219)(Editorial)(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsMichael D. Cantor
Improving care management and health outcomes for frail older people: implications of the PACE model.(response to Darryl Wieland and others in this issue, p. 1373)(Editorial)SeniorsJeff D. Williamson
Improving recovery of function after hospitalization.SeniorsJane Mahoney
Inappropriate hospitalization of nursing facility residents: A symptom of a sick system of care for frail older people.(Brief Article)SeniorsJoseph G. Ouslander, Andrew D. Weinberg, Victoria Phillips
Inclusion of older women in randomized clinical trials: factors associated with taking study medication in the fracture intervention trial.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsAndrea Z. LaCroix, Dennis M. Black, Diana S.M. Buist, Fran Harris, Jan Blank, Kristine Ensrud, Donna Edgerton, Susan Rubin, Kathleen M. Fox
Increasing liability risks among nursing homes: therapeutic consequences, costs, and alternatives.(Editorial)SeniorsMarshall B. Kapp
Ineffectiveness of the SUPPORT intervention: review of explanations.(Study to Understand Prognoses and Preferences for Outcomes and Risks of Treatment, Hospitalized Elderly Longitudinal)(Project)SeniorsMary Beth Hamel, Neal V. Dawson, Kenneth E. Covinsky, Joanne Lynn, Joel Tsevat, Marguerite Stevens, Kier Olsen DeVries, Hal R. Arkes, Felicia Cohn, Pat Murphy
Inerrater reliabiltiy of the clinical dementia rating in a multicenter trial.SeniorsDavid Strang, Kenneth Rockwood, Chris MacKnight, Robert Downer, John C. Morris
Influenza outbreak detection and control measures in nursing homes in the United States.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsWilliam W. Thompson, Keiji Fukuda, Carolyn Buxton Bridges, Mina M. Zadeh, Nancy H. Arden
Insights about dying from the SUPPORT project.(Study to Understand Prognoses and Preferences for Outcomes and Risks of Treatment, Hospitalized Elderly Longitudinal)(Project)SeniorsJoanne Lynn, Norman A. Desbiens, Nancy Freeborne
Insights into the pathophysiology and mechanisms of constipation, irritable bowel syndrome, and diverticulosis in older people.SeniorsMichael Camilleri, Joon Seong Lee, Blanca Viramontes, Adil E. Bharaucha, Eric G. Tangalos
Interdisciplinary geriatric primary care evaluation and management: two-year outcomes.SeniorsRobert Burns, Linda O. Nichols, Jennifer Martindale-Adams, Marshall J. Graney
In the steps of giants: the early geriatrics texts.SeniorsPeter Chase, Kathleen Mitchell, John E. Morley
Involuntary disenrollment from a Medicare managed care plan at an academic medical center: effect on patients.SeniorsNora F. Morgenstern, Ralph Gonzales, Robert J. Anderson
Knowledge, attitudes, and practices of geriatricians regarding patients with dementia who are potentially dangerous automobile drivers: a national survey.SeniorsGreg Cable, Michelle Reisner, Salwa Gerges, Vallur Thirumavalavan
Lead toxicity in older adults.SeniorsElizabeth K. Vig, Howard Hu
Legionnaires' disease in a newly constructed long-term care facility.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsRobert R. Muder, Janet E. Stout, Carole Brennen
Length of stay and therapeutic intervention allow estimation of in-hospital resource use independent of site and inflation.(Study to Understand Prognoses and Preferences for Outcomes and Risks of Treatment, Hospitalized Elderly Longitudinal)(Project)SeniorsJoanne Lynn, Albert W. Wu, Carlos Alzola, Douglas Wagner
Living and dying with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.(Project)SeniorsNeal V. Dawson, Ellen P. McCarthy, E. Wesley Ely, Joanne Lynn, Norman A. Desbiens, Zhenshao Zhong, Landrum McNiff, Al Connors, Michael Claessens
Long-term continuous use of benzodiazepines by older adults in Quebec: prevalence, incidence and risk factors.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsMary Egan, Christina Wolfson, Johanne Monette, Yola Moride
Long-term exercise and its effect on balance in older, osteoarthritic adults: results from the fitness, arthritis, and seniors trial (FAST).(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsRobert Burns, Stephen P. Messier, Todd D. Royer, Timothy E. Craven, Mary L. O'Toole, Walter H. Jr. Ettinger
Long-term home health care for the impoverished frail homebound aged: a twenty-seven-year experience.SeniorsF. Russell Kellogg, Philip W. Brickner
Low blood pressure and depression: comorbidity and competing outcomes.(Editorial)SeniorsMichael A. Robbins, Penelope K. Elias, Merrill F. Elias
Mammography use among women as a function of age and patient involvement in decision-making.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsRobert C. Burack, Julie George, James G. Gurney
Mammography use, breast cancer stage at diagnosis, and survival among older women.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsEllen P. McCarthy, Karen M. Freund, Mark A. Moskowitz, Risa B. Burns, Arlene S. Ash, Michael Shwartz, Sandra L. Marwill
Management of nursing home-acquired pneumonia: unresolved issues and priorities for future investigation.(Editorial)SeniorsRobert R. Muder
Measures of postural stability are not predictors of recovery from large postural disturbances in health older adults.SeniorsTammy M. Owings, Michael J. Pavol, Kevin T. Foley, Mark D. Grabiner
Medicare Prescription Drug Statement of Principles.(American Geriatrics Society Clinical Practice Committee)(includes discussion of the statement)(Statistical Data Included)Seniors 
Memory complaint in a community sample aged 70 and older.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsRobert B. Wallace, Carolyn L. Turvey, Susan Schultz, Stephan Arndt, Regula Herzog
Midazolam sedation for upper gastrointestinal endoscopy in older persons: a randomized, double-blind placebo-controlled study.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsC. Christe, J.P. Janssens, B. Armenian, F. Herrmann, N. Vogt
Mild cognitive impairment: potential pharmacological treatment options.SeniorsBarbara B Sherwin
Misclassification of high-risk older subjects using waist action levels established for young and middle-aged adults - results from the Rotterdam Study.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsAnu Molarius, Jacob C. Seidel, Tommy I.S. Visscher
Mitral balloon valvotomy for the treatment of mitral stenosis in octogenarians.SeniorsNilesh Sutaria, Andrew T. Elder, Thomas R.D. Shaw
Mobility difficulties and physical activity as predictors of mortality and loss of independence in the community-living older population.SeniorsMirja Hirvensalo, Taina Rantanen, Eino Heikkinen
Moderate alcohol consumption and hearing loss: a protective effect.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsMichael M. Popelka, Karen J. Cruickshanks, Terry L. Wiley, Theodore S. Tweed, Barbara E.K. Klein, Ronald Klein, David M. Nondahl
Modifiable risk factors predict functional decline among older women: A prospectively validated clinical prediction tool.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsSteven R. Cummings, Catherine A Sarkisian, Honghu Liu, Peter R. Gutierrez, Dana G. Seeley, Carol M. Mangione
Morbidity and comorbidity in relation to functional status: a community-based study of the oldest old (90+ years).(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsEva Von Strauss, Laura Fratiglioni, Matti Viitanen, Yvonne Forsell, Bengt Winblad
More caution about tube feeding.(response to Christopher M. Callahan and others in this issue, p. 1048)(Editorial)(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsColleen Christmas, Thomas E. Finucane
Mortality and institutionalization following hip fracture.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsMarilyn Cree, Colin L. Soskolne, Elaine Belseck, Joshua Hornig, Janet E. McElhaney, Rollin Brant, Maria Suarez-Almazor
Neuroimaging in the dementia assessment: Is it necessary?(response to FAdi Massoud and others in this issue, p. 1204)(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsJeffrey L. Cummings
New laws or better information and communication?(physicians' responsibility to report to the state on persons, for medical reasons, whose ability to drive may be impaired)(Editorial)SeniorsRichard A. Marottoli
Nocturnal polyuria in older people: pathophysiology and clinical implications.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsMyron Miller
Nonspecific presentation of pneumonia in hospitalized older people: age effect or dementia.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsJerry C. Johnson, Ravishankar Jayadevappa, Patricia D. Baccash, Lynne Taylor
Nursing assistants detect behavior changes in nursing home residents that precede acute illness: development and validation of an illness warning instrument.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsKenneth Boockvar, H. Daniel Brodie, Mark Lachs
Nutrional intake monitoring for nursing home residents: A comparison of staff documentation, direct observation, and photography methods.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsSandra F. Simmons, David Reuben
Nutrition-related cardiovascular risk factors in older people: results from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsThomas P. Erlinger, Harold Pollack, Lawrence J. Appel
Outcome and utilization differences for older persons with stroke in HMO and fee-for service systems.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsAndrew M. Kramer, Jacqueline Cahill Kowalsky, James Grigsby, Michael Lin, Richard (Australian writer) Hughes, John F. Steiner
Outcome of nursing home-acquired pneumonia: derivation and application of a practical model to predict 30 day mortality.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsBruce J. Naughton, Joseph M. Mylotte, Ammar Tayara
Outcomes of older persons receiving rehabilitation for medical and surgical conditions compared with hip fracture and stroke.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsAndrew M. Kramer, John F. Steiner, Marie F. Johnson, Michael K. Lin, Jacqueline C. Kowalsky
Outcomes of percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy among older adults in a community setting.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsTimothy E. Stump, Christopher M. Callahan, Kathy M. Haag, Morris Weinberger, William M. Tierney, Nancy N. Buchanan, Rod Nisi
Pancytopenia and valproic acid: a dose-related association.(Letter to the Editor)SeniorsO.J. Oluboka, D. Haslam, D.M. Gardner
Patients who want their family and physician to make resuscitation decisions for them: observations from SUPPORT and HELP.(Study to Understand Prognoses and Preferences for Outcomes and Risks of Treatment, Hospitalized Elderly Longitudinal)(Project)SeniorsRussell S. Phillips, Joan M. Teno, Joanne Lynn, Zhenshao Zhong, Robert Califf, Christina M. Puchalski, Michelle M. Jacobs, Ellen Fox, Joan Harrold, Anthony Galanos
Patterns of care in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease: impediments to timely diagnosis.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsDavid Knopman, Jane A. Donohue, Elane M. Gutterman
Pharmacotherapy of lower limb diabetic ulcers.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsMary E. Temple, Milap C. Nahata
Physical activity, falls, and fractures among older adults: a review of the epidemiologic evidence.SeniorsEdward W. Gregg, Mark A. Pereira, Carl J. Caspersen
Physical activity, functional limitations, and disability in older adults.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsBeth A. Reboussin, W. Jack Rejeski, Micahel E. Miller, Thomas R. Ten Have, Walter H. Ettinger
Physical inactivity and smoking increase risk for serious infections in older women.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsAndrea Z. LaCroix, Jack M. Guralnik, Luigi Ferrucci, Suzanne G. Leveille, Shelly Gray, Douglas J. Black
Physician orders for life-sustaining treatment (POLST): outcomes in a PACE program.(Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly)(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsMelinda A. Lee, Kenneth Brummel-Smith, Jan Meyer, Nicholas Drew, Marla R. London
Physician perceptions of HMO care for older persons.SeniorsMelissa K. Dixon, Pamela B. Kirschner, Helen K. Edelberg, John Z. Ayanian, Jeanne Y. Wei
Physicians are less willing to treat suicidal ideation in older patients.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsHeather Uncapher, Patricia A. Arean
Physician understanding of patient resuscitation preferences: insights and clinical implications.SeniorsNeal V. Dawson, Russell S. Phillips, Peter Layde, Joan M. Teno, Honghu Liu, Neil S. Wenger, Joanne Lynn, Robert K. Oye, Robert Califf, Rosemarie Hakim
Positive emotions, physical disability, and mortality in older adults.(Editorial)(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsHarold G. Koenig
Postmenopausal hormone therapy and cognitive function in healthy older women.SeniorsRobert S. Wilson, Denis A. Evans, Meir J. Stampfer, Francine Grodstein, Jennifer Chen, Daniel A. Pollen, Marilyn S. Albert, Marshal F. Folstein
Predicting 10-year care requirement for older people with suspected Alzheimer's disease.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsJason Lee, Bruce Kinosian, Eric Stallard, Max A. Woodbury, Arthur S. Zbrozek, Henry A. Glick
Predicting adverse postoperative outcomes in patients aged 80 years or older.SeniorsLinda L. Liu, Jacqueline M. Leung
Predicting functional status outcomes in hospitalized patients aged 80 years and older.SeniorsRussell S. Phillips, Joan M. Teno, Neil S. Wenger, Joanne Lynn, Albert W. Wu, Yutaka Yasui, Carlos Alzola, Anthony N. Galanos, Joel Tsevat, Alfred F. Connors Jr.
Prediction of survival for older hospitalized patients: the HELP survival model.(Hospitalized Elderly Longitudinal Project)SeniorsRussell S. Phillips, Joan M. Teno, Neil S. Wenger, Joanne Lynn, Albert W. Wu, Anthony N. Galanos, Alfred F. Connors Jr., Frank E. Harrell Jr., William Knaus, Douglas Wagner, Norman A. Desbiens
Predictors for functional declines among nondisabled older Japanese living in a community during a 3-year follow-up.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsTatsuro Ishizaki, Watanabe Shuichiro, Takao Suzuki, Hiroshi Shibata, Hiroshi Haga
Predictors of nursing home placement in Parkinson's disease: a population-based, prospective study.SeniorsDag Aarsland, Jan Petter Larsen, Elise Tandberg, Knut Laake
Preliminary report from the Kansas Hartford Geriatrics Project: a model of community university collaboration in geriatric medicine faculty development.SeniorsStephanie Studenski, Daniel Swagerty Jr., Anne Walling
Pressure ulcers among home care patients: Whose responsibility are they?(response to Bruce A. Ferrell and others in this issue, p. 1042)(Statistical Data Included)(Editorial)SeniorsNancy Bergstrom
Pressure ulcers among patients admitted to home care.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsBruce A. Ferrell, Karen Josphson, Peter Norvid, Harry Alcorn
Prevalence, effectiveness, and predictors of planning the place of death among older persons followed in community-based long term care.SeniorsRobin Remsburg, Bruce Leff, Kimberly P. Kaffenbarger
Prevalence, incidence, and risk factors associated with hip fractures in community-dwelling older Mexican Americans: results of the Hispanic EPESE study.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsDavid V. Espino, Raymond F. Palmer, Toni P. Miles, Charles P. Mouton, Robert C. Wood, Nora S. Bayne, Kyriakos P. Markides
Prevalent vertebral deformities predict mortality and hospitalizatlon 1n older women with low bone mass.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsKristine E. Ensrud, Jane A. Cauley, Michael C. Nevitt, Desmond E. Thompson, Deborah M. Kado, Marc C. Hochberg, Arthur C. Santora II, Dennis M. Black
Preventing the spread of vancomycin-resistant enterococci in a long-term care facility.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsFredric J. Silverblatt, Cynthia Tibert, Dennis Mikolich, Julia Blazek-D'Arrezzo, Josephine Alves, Marc Tack, Paul Agatiello
Protecting long-term care patients from antibiotic resistant infections: ethics, cost-effectiveness, and reimbursement issues.(response to Fredfic J. Silverblatt and others in this issue, p. 1211.)(Editorial)(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsBarry M. Farr
Qualifying change: a method for defining clinically meaningful outcomes for change score computation.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsShelia Jin, Anthony Gamst, Rochelle E. Tractenberg, Marian Patterson, Lon S. Schneider, Ronald G. Thomas, Leon J. Thal
Racial differences in use of cancer prevention services among older Americans.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsVerona Hegarty, Bruce M. Burchett, Deborah T. Gold, Harvey Jay Cohen
Racial variations in end-of-life care.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsFaith P. Hopp, Sonia A. Duffy
Reasons given by older people for limitation or avoidance of leisure time physical activity.SeniorsWilliam A. Satariano, Thaddeus J. Haight, Ira B. Tager
Recurrent paraparesis in an octogenarian.(Letter to the Editor)SeniorsD. Maggio, D. Lowenthal, S. Pezzuto, A. Cherubini
Regulation and Quality of Care Standards in Nursing Facilities.(American Geriatrics Society position statement)(Statistical Data Included)Seniors 
Relationship between low blood pressure and depressive symptomatology in older people.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsKyriakos S. Markides, Sandra A. Black, James S. Goodwin, Christine A. Stroup-Benham
Relationships between nutritional markers and the mini-nutritional assessment in 155 older persons.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsBruno Vellas, Yves Guigoz, Marcel Baumgartner, Philip J. Garry, Sylvie Lauque, Jean-Louis Alharede
Reliability and prevalence of physical performance examination assessing mobility and balance in older persons in the US: Data from Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.SeniorsRaynard Kington, Tamara B. Harris, Yechiam Ostchega, Rosemarie Hirsch, Van L. Parsons, Myron Katzoff
Removing the barriers to effective depression treatment in old age.(Editorial)SeniorsJeffrey S. Harman, Charles F. Reynolds III
Rethinking fundamental assumptions: SUPPORT's implications for future reform.(Study to Understand Prognoses and Preferences for Outcomes and Risks of Treatment, Hospitalized Elderly Longitudinal)(Project)SeniorsMary Beth Hamel, Neal V. Dawson, Russell S. Phillips, Joanne Lynn, Joel Tsevat, Ellen Fox, Hal R. Arkes, Felicia Cohn, Marguertie Stevens, Barbara Koenig
Returning to the bedside: using the history and physical examination to identify rotator cuff tears.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsDavid Litaker, Mathilde Pioro, Hazem El Bilbiesis, John Brems
Revisiting the one-year geriatric fellowship option: a preliminary assessment.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsWilliam R. Hazzard, Dorothy Law Currin, Nancy Woolard
Risk factors for nursing home placement in a population-based dementia cohort.SeniorsG.E. Smith, E. Kokmen, P.C. O'Brien
Risk factors for symptomatic peripheral arterial disease in older persons in an academic hospital-based geriatrics practice.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsChul Ahn, Jose Ness, Wilbert S. Aronow
Scientifically sound studies for geriatricians.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsRosanne M. Leipzig, Jean Sullivant
Sedative, hypnotic, and antianxiety medication use in an aging cohort over ten years: a racial comparison.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsDan Blazer, Celia Hybels, Eleanor Simonsick, Joseph T. Hanlon
Selecting target conditions for quality of care improvement in vulnerable older adults.SeniorsPaul G. Shekelle, Debra Saliba, Elizabeth M. Sloss, David H. Solomon, Roy T. Young, Catherine H. MacLean, Laurence Z. Rubenstein, John F. Schnelle, Caren J. Kamberg, Neil S. Wenger
Self-care practices used by older men and women to manage urinary incontinence: results from the National Follow-Up Survery on Self-Care and Aging.SeniorsT.M. Johnson II, J.E. Kincade, S.L. Bernard, J. Busby-Whitehead, G.H. DeFriese
Self-reported walking ability predicts functional mobility performance in frail older adults.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsNeil B. Alexander, Kenneth E. Guire, Darryl G. Thelen, James A. Ashton-Miller, Albert B. Schultz, Julie C. Grunawalt, Bruno Giordani
Silent ischemia during voluntary detraining and future cardiac events in master athletes.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsSuraiya Begum, Leslie Ira Katzel
Skeletal muscle mass and muscle strength in relation to lower-extremity performance in older men and women.SeniorsMarjolein Visser, Dorly Deeg J.H., Paul Lips, Tamara B. Haris, Lex M. Bouter
Sleep problems as a risk factor for falls in a sample of community-dwelling adults aged 64-99 years.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsAbby C. King, Glenn S. Brassington, Donald L. Bliwise
So you think you want to lead an academic geriatric program?(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsWilliam R. Hazzard
Stair negotiation in older people: a review.SeniorsJill K. Startzell, D. Alfred Owens, Lorraine M. Mulfinger, Peter R. Cavanagh
Stepping performance during obstacle clearance in women: age differences and the association with lower extremity strength in older women.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsWilliam P. Berg, Eileen R. Blasi
Subclinical cardiovascular disease and atherosclerosis are not inevitable consequences of aging.SeniorsJ. Jeffrey Carr, Gregory L. Burke
Subcutaneous fluid infusion in a long-term care setting.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsMonidipa Dasgupta, Malcolm A. Binns
Subjective memory complaint in relation to cognitive performance and depression: a longitudinal study of a rural Chinese population.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsPei-Ning Wang, Shuu-Jiun Wang, Jong-Ling Fuh, Evelyn Lee Teng, Chia-Yih Liu, Cheng-Huai Lin, Hann-Yeh Shyu, Shiang-Ru Lu, Chao-Ching Chen, Hsiu-Chih Liu
Substance abuse in older people.(Progress in Geriatrics)SeniorsMichael Fingerhood
Subsystems contributing to the decline in ability to walk: bridging the gap between epidemiology and geriatric practice in the InCHIANTI study.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsJack M. Guralnik, Luigi Ferrucci, Tamara B. Harris, Stefania Bandinelli, Enrico Benvenuti, Angelo Di Iorio, Claudio Macchi
Testosterone improves rehabilitation outcomes in ill older men.SeniorsVirat Bakhshi, Marjorie Elliott, Angela Gentili, Michael Godschalk, Thomas Mulligan
That was the year that was: an evidence-based clinical geriatrics update 1998-1999.(includes list of evidence-based medicine terminology with definition)(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsRosanne M. Leipzig, Jean A. Sullivant, Rainier P. Soriano
The activities of daily vision scale: a useful tool to assess fall risk in older adults with vision impairment.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsHosam K. Kamel, Samerah Guro-Razuman, Musarat Shareeff
The association between parkinsonism, Alzheimer's disease, and mortality: a comprehensive approach.SeniorsSusan L. Mitchell, Kenneth Rockwood
The association between vascular risk factor-mediating medications and cognition and dementia diagnosis in a community-based sample of African-Americans.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsMichael D. Murray, Stephanie S. Richards, Christine L. Emsley, John Roberts, Kathleen Hall, Sujuan Gao, Hugh C. Hendrie
The association of depressive symptoms and urinary incontinence among older adults.SeniorsElizabeth Dugan, Stuart J. Cohen, Deirdre R. Bland, John S. Preisser, Cralen C. Davis, Patricia K. Suggs, Paul McGann
The C677t mutation in the methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) gene and vascular dementia.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsRivka Dresner Pollak, Arthur Pollak, Maria Idelson, Bejarano-Achache, Dafna Doron, Anat Blumenfeld
The challenge of measuring quality of care in PACE.(Editorial)SeniorsG. Paul Eleazer
The comorbidity symptom scale: a combined disease inventory and assessment of symptom severity.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsH.L. Crabtree, C.S. Gray, A.J. Hildreth, J.E O'Connell, J. Brown
The effect of a multifaceted physician office-based intervention on older women's mammography use.SeniorsJeanette A. Preston, Jeanne D. Scinto, Jacqueline N. Grady, Allyson F. Schulz, Marcia K. Petrillo
The effect of case management on the costs of health care for enrollees in Medicare plus choice plans: a randomized trial.(Geriatrics in Managed Care)SeniorsChad Boult, Joshua Rassen, Amy Rassen, Richard J. Moore, Stephanie Robison
The effect of nutritional supplementation on survival in seriously ill hospitalized adults: an evaluation of the SUPPORT data.(Study to Understand Prognoses and Preferences for Outcomes and Risks of Treatment)SeniorsNeal V. Dawson, Russell S. Phillips, Joanne Lynn, Alfred F. Connors Jr., Norman A. Desbiens, Marie L. Borum, Zhenshao Zhong, Katalin Roth
The effects of childhood residence in Japan and testing language on cognitive performance in late life among japanese american men in Hawaii.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsKatsuhiko Yano, John S Grove, Kamal H. Masaki, Lon R. White, Helen Petrovitch, Randi Chen, Evelyn L. Teng, G.Webster Ross, Beatriz L. Rodriguez
The effects of patient race on outcomes in seriously ill patients in SUPPORT: an overview of economic impact, medical intervention, and end-of-life decisions.(Study to Understand Prognoses and Preferences for Outcomes and Risks of Treatment, Hospitalized Elderly Longitudinal)(Project)SeniorsMarie L. Borum, Zhenshao Zhong, Lynn Lynn
The effects of physical activity on mortality in the Jerusalem 70-Year-Olds Longitudinal Study.SeniorsR. Hammerman-Rozenberg, Y. Maaravi, A. Cohen, J. Stessman
The efficacy of ginkgo for elderly people with dementia and age-associated memory impairment: new results of a randomized clinical trial.SeniorsMartien C.J.M. Van Dongen, Erik Van Rossum, Alphons G.H. Kessels, Hilde J.G. Sielhorst, Paul G. Knipschild
The evidence for excellent nursing.(response to Ruth McCorkle and others in this issue, p. 1707)SeniorsTerry Fulmer
The Geriatric Pain Measure: validity, reliability and factor analysis.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsBruce A. Ferrell, Wendy M. Stein, John c. Beck
The high prevalence of depression and dementia in elder abuse or neglect.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsCarmel Bitondo Dyer, Valory N. Pavlik, Kathleen Pace Murphy
The Hospital Elder Life Program: a model of care to prevent cognitive and functional decline in older hospitalized patients.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsSharon K. Inouye, Sidney T. Bogarus, Dorothy I. Baker, Linda Leo-Summers, Leo M. Cooney
The impact of legislation on psychotropic drug use in nursing homes: a cross-national perspective.SeniorsNaoki Ikegami, Carmel M. Hughes, Kate L. Lapane, Vincent Mor, Palmi V. Jonsson, Gunnar Ljunggren, Antonio Sgadari
The impact of metrifonate therapy on caregivers of patients with Alzheimer's disease: results from the MALT clinical trial.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsDavid Wilkinson, Richard Shikiar, Annabelle Shakespeare, Pierre-Philippe Sagnier, Ian McKeith, Jean-Francois Dartigues, Bruno Dubois
The implementation of the EverCare demonstration project.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsRobert L. Kane, Shirley Huck
The increasing medical malpractice risk related to pressure ulcers in the United States.SeniorsRichard G. Bennett, Joan O'Sullivan, Eric M. DeVito, Robin Remsburg
The influence of patient age on primary care resident physician-patient interaction.SeniorsEdward J. Callahan, Klea D. Bertakis, Rahman Azari, John A. Robbins, L. Jay Helms, Dong W. Chang
The last six months of life for patients with congestive heart failure.(Project)SeniorsRoger B. Davis, Russell S. Phillips, Ellen P. McCarthy, Joanne Lynn, James W. Levenson
The Manchester Respiratory Activities of Daily Living Questionnaire: Development, reliability, validity, and responsiveness to pulmonary rehabilitation.SeniorsYohannes. Abebaw M., Jamal Roomi, Sarah Winn, Martin J. Connolly
The new frontier: increasing geriatrics expertise in surgical and medical specialties.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsDavid H. Solomon, John R. Burton, Nancy E. Lundebjerg, Janis Eisner
The prevalence of functional limitations and disability in older persons in the US: data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey III.SeniorsRaynard Kington, Tamara B. Harris, Yechiam Ostchega, Rosemarie Hirsch, Van L. Parsons
The prognostic value of serum albumin in healthy older persons with low and high serum interleukin-6 (IL-6) levels.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsRobert Wallace, David B. Reuben, Luigi Ferrucci, Tamara B. Harris, Russell P. Tracy, M. Chiara Corti, Harley Heimovitz
The protective effect of emotional vitality on adverse health outcomes in disabled older women.SeniorsBrenda W.J.H. Penninx, Jack M. Guralnik, Karen Bandeen-Roche, Judith D. Kasper, Eleanor M. Sominsick, Luigi Ferrucci, Linda P. Fried
The protective effect of social engagement on mortality in long-term care.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsDan K. Kiely, Samuel E. Simon, Richard N. Jones, John N. Morris
The reciprocal relationship between disability and depression.(response to David W. Oslin and others in this issue, p. 357)(Editorial)SeniorsMarshall J. Graney
The relationship between aerobic exercise capacity and circulating IGF-1 levels in healthy men and women.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsJerome L. Fleg, Ziad R. Haydar, Marc R. Blackman, Jordan D. Tobin, Jeanette G. Wright
The relationship between alcohol problems and health functioning of older adults in primary care settings.SeniorsJames C. Coyne, Frederic C. Blow, Maureen A. Walton, Kristen Lawton Barry, Sharon A. Mudd, Laurel A. Copeland
The relationship between cognitive/neuropsychological factors and car driving performance in older adults.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsRudi De Raedt, Ingrid Ponjaert-Kristoffersen
The role of antihypertensive agents in preventing cognitive impairment.(Editorial)SeniorsRobert B. Wallace
The role of routine laboratory studies and neuroimaging in the diagnosis of dementia: a clinicopathological study.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsFadi Massoud, Gayatri Devi, Joan T. Moroney, Yaakov Stern, Arlene Lawton, Karen Bell, Karen Marder, Richard Mayeux
The use of oral anticoagulants (warfarin) in older people.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsLaurie G. Jacobs, Charles A. Cefalu
The use of proxy respondents in studies of older adults: lessons, challenges and opportunities.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsElane M. Gutterman, Peter J. Neumann, Sally S. Araki
The validity of the Minimum Data Set in measuring the cognitive impairment of persons admitted to nursing homes.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsAnn L. Gruber-Baldini, Sheryl Itkin Zimmerman, Edward Mortimore
Treating excess disability among cognitively impaired nursing home residents.(response to Donna L. Wells and others in this issue, p. 442)(Editorial)SeniorsBettye Rose Connell, Eleanor S. McConnell
Treatment guidelines for nursing home-acquired pneumonia based on community practice.SeniorsBruce J. Naughton, Joseph M. Mylotte
Treatment of Alzheimer's disease.(reviews of the geriatric literature (abstracts))(Brief Article)SeniorsMayeux R., Sano M.
Tube feeding in nursing home residents with severe and irreversible cognitive impairment.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsCharles E. Gessert, Michael c. Mosier, Edward F. Brown, Bruce Frey
Underutilization of controller and rescue medications among older adults with asthma requiring hospital care.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsT.V. Hartert, A. Togias, B.G. Mellen, E.F. Mitchel, M.S. Snowden, M.R. Griffin
Undetected dementia in community-dwelling older people: the Canadian Study of Health and Aging.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsMona Baumgarten, Christina Wolfson, Shelley A. Sternberg
Update on electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) in older adults.SeniorsKaren G. Kelly, Marc Zisselman
Urge incontinence and the risk of falling in older women.(response to Jeanette S. Brown and others in this issue, p.721)(Statistical Data Included)(Editorial)SeniorsJoseph G. Ouslander, Steve Wolf, Lisa Riolo
Urinary incontinence: Does it increase risk for falls and fractures?(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsKristine E. Ensrud, Eric Vittinghoff, Deborah Grady, Jeanette S. Brown, Jean F. Wyman, Katie L. Stone, Michael C. Nevitt
Using structured implicit review to assess quality of care in the Program of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE).SeniorsRobert L. Kane, James T. Pacala, Adam J. Atherly, Maureen A. Smith
What's the basis for treating infections your way?: Quality assessment of review articles on the treatment of urinary and respiratory tract infectons in older people.(Statistical Data Included)SeniorsMonika Lutters, Nicole Vogt
Why physicians need to become more proficient in assessing their patients' competency and how they can achieve this.(Editorial)SeniorsJason H.T. Karlawish, Frederick A. Schmitt
Withholding versus withdrawing life-sustaining treatment: patient factors and documentation associated with dialysis decisions.(Project)SeniorsRussell S. Phillips, Joan M. Teno, Honghu Liu, Neil S. Wenger, Joanne Lynn, William Knaus, Robert K. Oye, Norman A.. Desbiens, Ashwini Sehgal, Peter Kussin, Harry Taub, Frank Harrell
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