Age and Ageing articles from May 1993

Age and Ageing archives from May 1993

Standardized functional assessment scales for elderly patients.
May 1, 1993... |Far better to have an approximate answer to the right question than to have an exact answer to the wrong question [1].' The need for functional assessment of elderly people as part of routine clinical practice has been highlighted by the...

Guillain-Barre syndrome in Oxfordshire: clinical features in relation to age.
May 1, 1993... Introduction Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS) has received little attention as a cause of peripheral neuropathy in elderly people. We have recently shown that age-specific incidence rates of GBS in Oxfordshire, UK, increase throughout...

The Barthel ADL index: scoring by the physician from patient interview is not reliable. (activities of daily living)
May 1, 1993... Introduction Assessment of the activities of daily living (ADL) is important in geriatric medicine [1, 2] both in diagnosis and for monitoring patients during treatment and rehabilitation. Information about ADL is usually collected on...

The association between mental, social and physical activity and cognitive performance in young and old subjects.
May 1, 1993... Introduction Continued mental activity and an engaged lifestyle are commonly believed to influence cognitive performance in old age [1, 2]. Support for this has come from three main sources. First, there have been studies showing...

Assessment in severe dementia: the Guy's Advanced Dementia Schedule.
May 1, 1993... Introduction Patients with dementia resident in institutions usually have a very advanced degree of dementia with gross cognitive deficits [1]. These patients are, however, increasingly the focus of research, especially in autopsy...

Factors associated with decline in function, institutionalization and mortality of elderly people.
May 1, 1993... Introduction For most developed countries the life expectancy at birth has shown little increase over the last two decades and the focus of research appears to be shifting from mortality to morbidity, more specifically to the...

Relationships between parathyroid hormone, 25-hydroxyvitamin D, and bone mineral density in elderly men.
May 1, 1993... Introduction Osteoporotic fractures are an important cause of morbidity and mortality in the elderly population [1]. Although the determinants of bone mass [2] and causes of osteoporosis in men [3, 4] have been less extensively...

Attitudes of relatives to autopsies of elderly patients.
May 1, 1993... Introduction Over the past 20 years there has been a fall in the number of autopsies performed after obtaining permission from relatives [1]. Of the estimated 25% of people dying in England and Wales who undergo autopsy, 90% are at...

Autopsy: consent, completion and communication in Alzheimer's disease research.
May 1, 1993... Introduction The importance of autopsy in the advancement of medical and scientific knowledge has been well documented over the centuries [1]. However, autopsy rates in both the United States of America and the United Kingdom have...

Helicobacter pylori infection in elderly people: correlation between histology and serology.
May 1, 1993... Introduction Helicobacter pylori has generated considerable interest since its isolation and characterization in 1983 [1]. It has been established as the most common cause of antral gastritis [2]. H. pylori associated gastritis is...

Bacterial surveillance cultures in a geriatric ward.
May 1, 1993... Introduction It is well known that elderly people are more susceptible to infections as changes in their immune system and alterations of organs occur [1-5]. The risk increases with the presence of various disorders, especially in...

Lung cancer in elderly patients: the role of induced sputum production to obtain a cytological diagnosis.
May 1, 1993... Introduction Sputum cytology is an established technique in the investigation of suspected bronchial carcinoma. The diagnostic sensitivity of this procedure varies, but the more sputum samples that are obtained the better the...

Autonomic Failure: A Textbook of Clinical Disorders of the Autonomic Nervous System, 3d ed.
May 1, 1993... Edited by Sir Roger Bannister and Christopher J. Mathias Oxford: Oxford University Press. Third edition 1992. 953PP. Price 95.00[pounds]. It is ten years since the publication of the first edition of this major standard textbook on...

Travel and Health in the Elderly: A Medical Handbook.
May 1, 1993... I.B. McIntosh Lancaster: Quay Publishing, 1992. 146 pp. Price 9.95[pounds] (paperback). The elderly want to enjoy their remaining years and have been encouraged by doctors to live dangerously. Many will do this by travelling and it is...

Biology of Aging.
May 1, 1993... Edited by Robert Zwilling and Cesare Balduini Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, 1992. 169 pp. Price 35.00[pounds] (paperback). This small book contains 16 short papers presented by 48 contributors at the German-Italian symposium |Biology of...

Made to Measure? Performance, Measurement and Community Care.
May 1, 1993... Lesley Hoyes, Robin Means and Julian Le Grand Bristol: School for Advanced Urban Studies (SAUS) Occasional Paper 39. 1992. 71 pp. Price 8.95[pounds] (paperback). In |Community Care' what really goes on out there? Can we measure it,...

Financing Home Care: Improving Protection for Disabled Elderly People.
May 1, 1993... Edited by D. Rowland and B. Lyons, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 1992. 256 pp. Price 34.00[pounds]. In the USA, unlike the UK, debates about the funding of health care include the funding of long-term care for vulnerable...

Vision and Aging: Issues in Social Work Practice.
May 1, 1993... Edited by Nancy Weber New York: The Howarth Press. 1992. 196 pp. Price US $14.95 (paperback); US $24.95 (hardback). This book gives an overview of services for blind and severely visually impaired people in the USA. There are 15 chapters,...

The Year Book of Geriatrics and Gerontology: 1991.
May 1, 1993... Edited by J. C. Beck St Louis, MO: Mosby Year Book Inc. 1991. 291 pp. Price US $54.95. The Year Book of Geriatrics and Gerontology is part of a series of 39 books with clinical subjects. It represents literature reviews of 90 journals...