Ausgabe 1/2010
Inhalt (89 Artikel)
Predictors of health decline in older adults with pneumonia: findings from the Community Acquired Pneumonia Impact Study
Eduardo Fernandez, Paul Krueger, Mark Loeb
Patient preferences for future care - how can Advance Care Planning become embedded into dementia care: a study protocol
Louise Robinson, Claire Bamford, Fiona Beyer, Alexa Clark, Claire Dickinson, Charlotte Emmet, Catherine Exley, Julian Hughes, Lesley Robson, Nikki Rousseau
Evaluation of personalised, one-to-one interaction using Montessori-type activities as a treatment of challenging behaviours in people with dementia: the study protocol of a crossover trial
Eva S van der Ploeg, Daniel W O'Connor
Stroke and Nursing Home care: a national survey of nursing homes
Seamus Cowman, Maeve Royston, Anne Hickey, Frances Horgan, Hannah McGee, Desmond O'Neill
Snoezelen, structured reminiscence therapy and 10-minutes activation in long term care residents with dementia (WISDE): study protocol of a cluster randomized controlled trial
Almuth Berg, Katharina Sadowski, Melanie Beyrodt, Stephanie Hanns, Markus Zimmermann, Gero Langer, Christiane Becker, Christine Lautenschläger, Johann Behrens
Physical and mental health-related correlates of physical function in community dwelling older adults: a cross sectional study
Carol Ewing Garber, Mary L Greaney, Deborah Riebe, Claudio R Nigg, Patricia A Burbank, Phillip G Clark
Multilevel analysis of covariation in socioeconomic predictors of physical functioning and psychological well-being among older people in rural Vietnam
Hoang Van Minh, Dao Lan Huong, Stig Wall, Nguyen Thi Kim Chuc, Peter Byass
A protocol for an individualised, facilitated and sustainable approach to implementing current evidence in preventing falls in residential aged care facilities
Betty Haralambous, Terry P Haines, Keith Hill, Kirsten Moore, Jennifer Nitz, Andrew Robinson
Validation of Doloplus-2 among nonverbal nursing home patients - an evaluation of Doloplus-2 in a clinical setting
Karin Torvik, Stein Kaasa, Øyvind Kirkevold, Ingvild Saltvedt, Jacob C Hølen, Peter Fayers, Tone Rustøen
Homeopathic treatment of elderly patients - a prospective observational study with follow-up over a two year period
Michael Teut, Rainer Lüdtke, Katharina Schnabel, Stefan N Willich, Claudia M Witt
Belt restraint reduction in nursing homes: design of a quasi-experimental study
Math JM Gulpers, Michel HC Bleijlevens, Erik van Rossum, Elizabeth Capezuti, Jan PH Hamers
Hip fracture types in men and women change differently with age
David A Tanner, Marita Kloseck, Richard G Crilly, Bert Chesworth, Jason Gilliland
Research protocol of the NeedYD-study (Needs in Young onset Dementia): a prospective cohort study on the needs and course of early onset dementia
Deliane van Vliet, Christian Bakker, Raymond TCM Koopmans, Myrra JFJ Vernooij-Dassen, Frans RJ Verhey, Marjolein E de Vugt
Effects of Ginkgo biloba in dementia: systematic review and meta-analysis
Stefan Weinmann, Stephanie Roll, Christoph Schwarzbach, Christoph Vauth, Stefan N Willich
Geriatric rehabilitation of stroke patients in nursing homes: a study protocol
Monica Spruit-van Eijk, Bianca I Buijck, Sytse U Zuidema, Frans LM Voncken, Alexander CH Geurts, Raymond TCM Koopmans
The independent contribution of executive functions to health related quality of life in older women
Jennifer C Davis, Carlo A Marra, Mehdi Najafzadeh, Teresa Liu-Ambrose
Impact of valvular heart disease on activities of daily living of nonagenarians: the leiden 85-plus study a population based study
Thomas van Bemmel, Victoria Delgado, Jeroen J Bax, Jacobijn Gussekloo, Gerard J Blauw, Rudi G Westendorp, Eduard R Holman
The choice of self-rated health measures matter when predicting mortality: evidence from 10 years follow-up of the Australian longitudinal study of ageing
Kerry A Sargent-Cox, Kaarin J Anstey, Mary A Luszcz
Educational games in geriatric medicine education: a systematic review
Ziad Alfarah, Holger J Schünemann, Elie A Akl
Distinguishing four components underlying physical activity: a new approach to using physical activity questionnaire data in old age
Lisanne M Verweij, Natasja M van Schoor, Joost Dekker, Marjolein Visser
Cognitive behavioural therapy in elderly type 2 diabetes patients with minor depression or mild major depression: study protocol of a randomized controlled trial (MIND-DIA)
Frank Petrak, Martin Hautzinger, Kristin Plack, Kai Kronfeld, Christian Ruckes, Stephan Herpertz, Matthias J Müller
Predictors of inhospital mortality and re-hospitalization in older adults with community-acquired pneumonia: a prospective cohort study
Binod Neupane, Stephen D Walter, Paul Krueger, Tom Marrie, Mark Loeb
Clinical research on liver reserve function by 13C-phenylalanine breath test in aged patients with chronic liver diseases
Gan-sheng Zhang, Zhi-jun Bao, Jian Zou, Shu-ming Yin, Yi-qin Huang, Hai Huang, De-kai Qiu
Counsellors contact dementia caregivers - predictors of utilisation in a longitudinal study
Maria Grossfeld-Schmitz, Carolin Donath, Rolf Holle, Joerg Lauterberg, Stephan Ruckdaeschel, Hilmar Mehlig, Peter Marx, Sonja Wunder, Elmar Gräßel
Changes in executive functions and self-efficacy are independently associated with improved usual gait speed in older women
Teresa Liu-Ambrose, Jennifer C Davis, Lindsay S Nagamatsu, Chun Liang Hsu, Lindsay A Katarynych, Karim M Khan
Home and community care services: a major opportunity for preventive health care
Louisa R Jorm, Scott R Walter, Sanja Lujic, Julie E Byles, Hal L Kendig
Elderly persons in the risk zone. Design of a multidimensional, health-promoting, randomised three-armed controlled trial for "prefrail" people of 80+ years living at home
Synneve Dahlin-Ivanoff, Gunilla Gosman--Hedström, Anna-Karin Edberg, Katarina Wilhelmson, Kajsa Eklund, Anna Duner, Lena Ziden, Anna-Karin Welmer, Sten Landahl
Health, wellbeing and nutritional status of older people living in UK care homes: an exploratory evaluation of changes in food and drink provision
Andrea Kenkmann, Gill M Price, Joanne Bolton, Lee Hooper
Nurse-based case management for aged patients with myocardial infarction: study protocol of a randomized controlled trial
Inge Kirchberger, Christa Meisinger, Hildegard Seidl, Rupert Wende, Bernhard Kuch, Rolf Holle
Self-assessed health among Thai elderly
Fariha Haseen, Ramesh Adhikari, Kusol Soonthorndhada
Dietary patterns associated with fall-related fracture in elderly Japanese: a population based prospective study
Yasutake Monma, Kaijun Niu, Koh Iwasaki, Naoki Tomita, Naoki Nakaya, Atsushi Hozawa, Shinichi Kuriyama, Shin Takayama, Takashi Seki, Takashi Takeda, Nobuo Yaegashi, Satoru Ebihara, Hiroyuki Arai, Ryoichi Nagatomi, Ichiro Tsuji
Food Access and Perceptions of the Community and Household Food Environment as Correlates of Fruit and Vegetable Intake among Rural Seniors
Joseph R Sharkey, Cassandra M Johnson, Wesley R Dean
Consequences from use of reminiscence - a randomised intervention study in ten Danish nursing homes
Claire Gudex, Charlotte Horsted, Anders Møller Jensen, Marianne Kjer, Jan Sørensen
A gender perspective on factors that influence outdoor recreational physical activity among the elderly
Katarina Sjögren, Louise Stjernberg
The Tokyo Oldest Old Survey on Total Health (TOOTH): A longitudinal cohort study of multidimensional components of health and well-being
Yasumichi Arai, Toshimitsu Iinuma, Michiyo Takayama, Midori Takayama, Yukiko Abe, Ryoko Fukuda, Jyuko Ando, Kikuko Ohta, Hiroo Hanabusa, Keiko Asakura, Yuji Nishiwaki, Yasuyuki Gondo, Hiroko akiyama, Kazuo Komiyama, Nobuhito Gionhaku, Nobuyoshi Hirose
The factorial structure of the mini mental state examination (MMSE) in Japanese dementia patients
Kenta Shigemori, Shohei Ohgi, Eriko Okuyama, Takaki Shimura, Eric Schneider
Self-reported medication side effects in an older cohort living independently in the community - the Melbourne Longitudinal Study on Healthy Ageing (MELSHA): cross-sectional analysis of prevalence and risk factors
Jennifer A Thomson, Wei C Wang, Colette Browning, Hal L Kendig
A team-based approach to warfarin management in long term care: A feasibility study of the MEDeINR electronic decision support system
Alexandra Papaioannou, Courtney C Kennedy, Glenda Campbell, Jacqueline B Stroud, Luqi Wang, Lisa Dolovich, Mark A Crowther
The BELFRAIL (BFC80+) study: a population-based prospective cohort study of the very elderly in Belgium
Bert Vaes, Agnes Pasquet, Pierre Wallemacq, Nawel Rezzoug, Hassan Mekouar, Pierre-Alexandre Olivier, Delphine Legrand, Catharina Matheï, Gijs Van Pottelbergh, Jan Degryse
Relationship between location and activity in injurious falls: an exploratory study
Michel HC Bleijlevens, Joseph PM Diederiks, Marike RC Hendriks, Jolanda CM van Haastregt, Harry FJM Crebolder, Jacques ThM van Eijk
Short-term geriatric assessment units: 30 years later
Judith Latour, Paule Lebel, Bernard-Simon Leclerc, Nicole Leduc, Katherine Berg, Aline Bolduc, Marie-Jeanne Kergoat
Subnormal vitamin B12 concentrations and anaemia in older people: a systematic review
Wendy PJ den Elzen, Gerda M van der Weele, Jacobijn Gussekloo, Rudi GJ Westendorp, Willem JJ Assendelft
Hertfordshire sarcopenia study: design and methods
Harnish P Patel, Holly E Syddall, Helen J Martin, Claire E Stewart, Cyrus Cooper, Avan Aihie Sayer
Predictors of pneumococcal vaccination among older adults with pneumonia: findings from the Community Acquired Pneumonia Impact Study
Paul Krueger, Oona St Amant, Mark Loeb
Pharmacotherapy and the risk for community-acquired pneumonia
Jen-Tzer Gau, Utkarsh Acharya, Salman Khan, Victor Heh, Lona Mody, Tzu-Cheg Kao
Medical Conditions of Nursing Home Admissions
Gilberte Van Rensbergen, Tim Nawrot
A prospective study of symptoms, function, and medication use during acute illness in nursing home residents: design, rationale and cohort description
William W Hung, Sophia Liu, Kenneth S Boockvar
Pharmacotherapy of elderly patients in everyday anthroposophic medical practice: a prospective, multicenter observational study
Elke Jeschke, Thomas Ostermann, Manuela Tabali, Horst C Vollmar, Matthias Kröz, Angelina Bockelbrink, Claudia M Witt, Stefan N Willich, Harald Matthes
The study protocol of a blinded randomised-controlled cross-over trial of lavender oil as a treatment of behavioural symptoms in dementia
Eva S van der Ploeg, Barbara Eppingstall, Daniel W O'Connor
Accelerometer-based physical activity in a large observational cohort - study protocol and design of the activity and function of the elderly in Ulm (ActiFE Ulm) study
Michael D Denkinger, Sebastian Franke, Kilian Rapp, Gudrun Weinmayr, Enric Duran-Tauleria, Thorsten Nikolaus, Richard Peter
Compartment syndrome of the thigh. A case report with delayed onset after stable pelvic ring fracture and chronic anticoagulation therapie
Rolf D Burghardt, Sebastian Siebenlist, Stefan Döbele, Martin Lucke, Ulrich Stöckle
Screening for pre-clinical disability in different residential settings
Kate Gibson, Lesley Day, Keith D Hill, Damien Jolley, Stuart Newstead, Flavia Cicuttini, Leonie Segal, Leon Flicker
"The contribution of chronic diseases to the prevalence of dependence among older people in Latin America, China and India: a 10/66 Dementia Research Group population-based survey"
Renata M Sousa, Cleusa P Ferri, Daisy Acosta, Mariella Guerra, Yueqin Huang, KS Jacob, AT Jotheeswaran, Milagros A Guerra Hernandez, Zhaorui Liu, Guillermina Rodriguez Pichardo, Juan J Llibre Rodriguez, Aquiles Salas, Ana Luisa Sosa, Joseph Williams, Tirso Zuniga, Martin Prince
Delphi-research exploring essential components and preconditions for case management in people with dementia
Paul-Jeroen Verkade, Berno van Meijel, Cindy Brink, Harmieke van Os-Medendorp, Bauke Koekkoek, Anneke L Francke
Indicators of "Healthy Aging" in older women (65-69 years of age). A data-mining approach based on prediction of long-term survival
William R Swindell, Kristine E Ensrud, Peggy M Cawthon, Jane A Cauley, Steve R Cummings, Richard A Miller
Consequences of lower extremity and trunk muscle fatigue on balance and functional tasks in older people: A systematic literature review
Jorunn L Helbostad, Daina L Sturnieks, Jasmine Menant, Kim Delbaere, Stephen R Lord, Mirjam Pijnappels
A Frailty Instrument for primary care: findings from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE)
Roman Romero-Ortuno, Cathal D Walsh, Brian A Lawlor, Rose Anne Kenny
"Research protocol: a synthesis of qualitative studies on the process of adaptation to dependency in elderly persons and their families"
Eva Abad-Corpa, Teresa González-Gil, Ana M Barderas-Manchado, Carmen de la Cuesta-Benjumea, Olga Monistrol-Ruano, Vinita Mahtani-Chugani, Antonio Martínez-Hernández
Burden of anemia in patients with osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis in French secondary care
Gergana Zlateva, Ruth Diazaraque, Muriel Viala-Danten, Liviu Niculescu
Community based intervention to optimize osteoporosis management: randomized controlled trial
Patricia M Ciaschini, Sharon E Straus, Lisa R Dolovich, Ron A Goeree, Karen M Leung, Carol R Woods, Greg M Zimmerman, Sumit R Majumdar, Silvana Spadafora, Luke A Fera, Hui N Lee
Mothers and daughters-in-law: a prospective study of informal care-giving arrangements and survival in Japan
Akihiro Nishi, Nanako Tamiya, Masayo Kashiwagi, Hideto Takahashi, Mikiya Sato, Ichiro Kawachi
Cognitive performance and leukocyte telomere length in two narrow age-range cohorts: a population study
Karen A Mather, Anthony F Jorm, Kaarin J Anstey, Peter J Milburn, Simon Easteal, Helen Christensen
Risk of venous thromboembolism after total hip and knee replacement in older adults with comorbidity and co-occurring comorbidities in the Nationwide Inpatient Sample (2003-2006)
Alok Kapoor, Alan J Labonte, Michael R Winter, Jodi B Segal, Rebecca A Silliman, Jeffrey N Katz, Elena Losina, Dan Berlowitz
Engaging the oldest old in research: lessons from the Newcastle 85+ study
Karen Davies, Joanna C Collerton, Carol Jagger, John Bond, Sally AH Barker, June Edwards, Joan Hughes, Judith M Hunt, Louise Robinson
Older hip fracture patients: three groups with different needs
Anette H Ranhoff, Kristin Holvik, Mette I Martinsen, Kirsti Domaas, Ludvig F Solheim
Palliative care for the elderly - developing a curriculum for nursing and medical students
Johannes M Just, Christian Schulz, Maren Bongartz, Martin W Schnell
Development of the interRAI Pressure Ulcer Risk Scale (PURS) for use in long-term care and home care settings
Jeff Poss, Katharine M Murphy, M Gail Woodbury, Heather Orsted, Kimberly Stevenson, Gail Williams, Shirley MacAlpine, Nancy Curtin-Telegdi, John P Hirdes
Use of an innovative model to evaluate mobility in seniors with lower-limb amputations of vascular origin: a pilot study
Claude Vincent, Émilie Demers, Hélène Moffet, Hélène Corriveau, Sylvie Nadeau, Catherine Mercier
A discharge summary adapted to the frail elderly to ensure transfer of relevant information from the hospital to community settings: a model
Marie-Jeanne Kergoat, Judith Latour, Isabelle Julien, Marie-Andrée Plante, Paule Lebel, Dominique Mainville, Aline Bolduc, Julie Anne Buckland
Hypothermia predicts mortality in critically ill elderly patients with sepsis
Ravindranath Tiruvoipati, Kevin Ong, Himangsu Gangopadhyay, Subhash Arora, Ian Carney, John Botha
Is there an association between low dose aspirin and anemia (without overt bleeding)?: narrative review
Helen Gaskell, Sheena Derry, R Andrew Moore
What are the beliefs, attitudes and practices of front-line staff in long-term care (LTC) facilities related to osteoporosis awareness, management and fracture prevention?
Arthur N Lau, George Ioannidis, Yelena Potts, Lora M Giangregorio, Mary-Lou Van der Horst, Jonathan D Adachi, Alexandra Papaioannou
Effect of standing posture during whole body vibration training on muscle morphology and function in older adults: A randomised controlled trial
Monica Mikhael, Rhonda Orr, Fleur Amsen, David Greene, Maria A Fiatarone Singh
Body composition in older acute stroke patients after treatment with individualized, nutritional supplementation while in hospital
Lisa Ha, Truls Hauge, Per Ole Iversen
A trial assessing N-3 as treatment for injury-induced cachexia (ATLANTIC trial): does a moderate dose fish oil intervention improve outcomes in older adults recovering from hip fracture?
Michelle D Miller, Alison Yaxley, Anthony Villani, Lynne Cobiac, Robert Fraser, Leslie Cleland, Michael James, Maria Crotty
Loneliness and the rate of motor decline in old age: the rush memory and aging project, a community-based cohort study
Aron S Buchman, Patricia A Boyle, Robert S Wilson, Bryan D James, Sue E Leurgans, Steven E Arnold, David A Bennett
Assessment of fall-related self-efficacy and activity avoidance in people with Parkinson's disease
Maria H Nilsson, Anna-Maria Drake, Peter Hagell
Comparison of hemodynamic and nutritional parameters between older persons practicing regular physical activity, nonsmokers and ex-smokers
Cristina O Francisco, Natalia A Ricci, Marcelo N Rebelatto, José R Rebelatto
Characteristics of general practice care: What do senior citizens value? A qualitative study
P(Ine) GJ Berkelmans, Annette J Berendsen, Peter FM Verhaak, Klaas van der Meer
The differential impact of subjective and objective aspects of social engagement on cardiovascular risk factors
Yumiko Kamiya, Brendan Whelan, Virpi Timonen, Rose Anne Kenny
How can we improve targeting of frail elderly patients to a geriatric day-hospital rehabilitation program?
Silvia RM Pereira, Wendy Chiu, Alyson Turner, Stephanie Chevalier, Lawrence Joseph, Allen R Huang, Jose A Morais
Use of health services and medicines amongst Australian war veterans: a comparison of young elderly, near centenarians and centenarians
Elizabeth E Roughead, Lisa M Kalisch, Emmae N Ramsay, Philip Ryan, Andrew L Gilbert
Measurement properties of the Minimal Insomnia Symptom Scale (MISS) in an elderly population in Sweden
Amanda Hellström, Peter Hagell, Cecilia Fagerström, Ania Willman
Diagnostic accuracy of plasma NT-proBNP levels for excluding cardiac abnormalities in the very elderly
Bert Vaes, Victoria Delgado, Jeroen Bax, Jan Degryse, Rudi GJ Westendorp, Jacobijn Gussekloo
Improving diaper design to address incontinence associated dermatitis
Anne-Marie Beguin, Evelyne Malaquin-Pavan, Claudine Guihaire, Anne-Marie Hallet-Lezy, Sandrine Souchon, Vanessa Homann, Petra Zöllner, Maximilian Swerev, Rüdiger Kesselmeier, Fridmann Hornung, Hans Smola
Behavioural and psychological symptoms in the older population without dementia - relationship with socio-demographics, health and cognition
Rianne van der Linde, Blossom CM Stephan, Fiona E Matthews, Carol Brayne, George M Savva
The spiritual distress assessment tool: an instrument to assess spiritual distress in hospitalised elderly persons
Stefanie M Monod, Etienne Rochat, Christophe J Büla, Guy Jobin, Estelle Martin, Brenda Spencer
Determining the association of medical co-morbidity with subjective and objective cognitive performance in an inner city memory disorders clinic: a retrospective chart review
Corinne E Fischer, Depeng Jiang, Tom A Schweizer
Validity, responsiveness and the minimal clinically important difference for the de Morton Mobility Index (DEMMI) in an older acute medical population
Natalie A de Morton, Megan Davidson, Jennifer L Keating