Ausgabe 1/2011
Inhalt (91 Artikel)
A multi-faceted intervention to implement guideline care and improve quality of care for older people who present to the emergency department with falls
Nicholas Waldron, Ian Dey, Yusuf Nagree, Jianguo Xiao, Leon Flicker
Home: The place the older adult can not imagine living without
Catharina Gillsjö, Donna Schwartz-Barcott, Iréne von Post
The implementation of the serial trial intervention for pain and challenging behaviour in advanced dementia patients (STA OP!): a clustered randomized controlled trial
Marjoleine JC Pieper, Wilco P Achterberg, Anneke L Francke, Jenny T van der Steen, Erik JA Scherder, Christine R Kovach
A new combined strategy to implement a community occupational therapy intervention: designing a cluster randomized controlled trial
Carola ME Döpp, Maud JL Graff, Steven Teerenstra, Eddy Adang, Ria WG Nijhuis - van der Sanden, Marcel GM OldeRikkert, Myrra JFJ Vernooij-Dassen
Labor force participation in later life: Evidence from a cross-sectional study in Thailand
Ramesh Adhikari, Kusol Soonthorndhada, Fariha Haseen
Dementia as a determinant of social and health service use in the last two years of life 1996-2003
Leena Forma, Pekka Rissanen, Mari Aaltonen, Jani Raitanen, Marja Jylhä
Capability and dependency in the Newcastle 85+ cohort study. Projections of future care needs
Carol Jagger, Joanna C Collerton, Karen Davies, Andrew Kingston, Louise A Robinson, Martin P Eccles, Thomas von Zglinicki, Carmen Martin-Ruiz, Oliver FW James, Tom BL Kirkwood, John Bond
Quality of life of residents with dementia in long-term care settings in the Netherlands and Belgium: design of a longitudinal comparative study in traditional nursing homes and small-scale living facilities
Alida HPM de Rooij, Katrien G Luijkx, Anja G Declercq, Jos MGA Schols
Analysis of frailty and survival from late middle age in the Beijing Longitudinal Study of Aging
Jing Shi, Xiaowei Song, Pulin Yu, Zhe Tang, Arnold Mitnitski, Xianghua Fang, Kenneth Rockwood
Age, gender and disability predict future disability in older people: the Rotterdam Study
Ümit Taş, Ewout W Steyerberg, Sita MA Bierma-Zeinstra, Albert Hofman, Bart W Koes, Arianne P Verhagen
Effect of in-hospital comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) in older people with hip fracture. The protocol of the Trondheim Hip Fracture Trial
Olav Sletvold, Jorunn L Helbostad, Pernille Thingstad, Kristin Taraldsen, Anders Prestmo, Sarah E Lamb, Arild Aamodt, Roar Johnsen, Jon Magnussen, Ingvild Saltvedt
Effect of interventions to reduce potentially inappropriate use of drugs in nursing homes: a systematic review of randomised controlled trials
Louise Forsetlund, Morten C Eike, Elisabeth Gjerberg, Gunn E Vist
Study of Mental Activity and Regular Training (SMART) in at risk individuals: A randomised double blind, sham controlled, longitudinal trial
Nicola J Gates, Michael Valenzuela, Perminder S Sachdev, Nalin A Singh, Bernhard T Baune, Henry Brodaty, Chao Suo, Nidhi Jain, Guy C Wilson, Yi Wang, Michael K Baker, Dominique Williamson, Nasim Foroughi, Maria A Fiatarone Singh
Impact of a multifaceted program to prevent postoperative delirium in the elderly: the CONFUCIUS stepped wedge protocol
Christelle Mouchoux, Pascal Rippert, Antoine Duclos, Thomas Fassier, Marc Bonnefoy, Brigitte Comte, Damien Heitz, Cyrille Colin, Pierre Krolak-Salmon
Design of a randomized controlled study of a multi-professional and multidimensional intervention targeting frail elderly people
Katarina Wilhelmson, Anna Duner, Kajsa Eklund, Gunilla Gosman-Hedström, Staffan Blomberg, Henna Hasson, Helena Gustafsson, Sten Landahl, Synneve Dahlin-Ivanoff
Understanding, comprehensibility and acceptance of an evidence-based consumer information brochure on fall prevention in old age: a focus group study
Sabine Lins, Andrea Icks, Gabriele Meyer
Operationalizing frailty among older residents of assisted living facilities
Elizabeth A Freiheit, David B Hogan, Laurel A Strain, Heidi N Schmaltz, Scott B Patten, Misha Eliasziw, Colleen J Maxwell
Designing clinical trials for assessing the effects of cognitive training and physical activity interventions on cognitive outcomes: The Seniors Health and Activity Research Program Pilot (SHARP-P) Study, a randomized controlled trial
Claudine Legault, Janine M Jennings, Jeffrey A Katula, Dale Dagenbach, Sarah A Gaussoin, Kaycee M Sink, Stephen R Rapp, W Jack Rejeski, Sally A Shumaker, Mark A Espeland
Implementing a quality improvement programme in palliative care in care homes: a qualitative study
Sue Hall, Cassie Goddard, Frances Stewart, Irene J Higginson
Effectiveness of Oral Nutritional Supplementation for Older Women after a Fracture: Rationale, Design and Study of the Feasibility of a Randomized Controlled Study
Ian D Cameron, Susan E Kurrle, Cesar Uy, Keri A Lockwood, Lydia Au, Frederieke G Schaafsma
Post-discharge management following hip fracture - get you back to B4: A parallel group, randomized controlled trial study protocol
Wendy L Cook, Karim M Khan, Michelle H Bech, Penelope M Brasher, Roy A Brown, Stirling Bryan, Meghan G Donaldson, Pierre Guy, Heather M Hanson, Cheryl Leia, Erin M Macri, Joanie Sims-Gould, Heather A McKay, Maureen C Ashe
Persons with dementia missing in the community: Is it wandering or something unique?
Meredeth A Rowe, Sydney S Vandeveer, Catherine A Greenblum, Cassandra N List, Rachael M Fernandez, Natalie E Mixson, Hyo C Ahn
Predicting ADL disability in community-dwelling elderly people using physical frailty indicators: a systematic review
Joan Vermeulen, Jacques CL Neyens, Erik van Rossum, Marieke D Spreeuwenberg, Luc P de Witte
Cognitive and cognitive-motor interventions affecting physical functioning: A systematic review
Giuseppe Pichierri, Peter Wolf, Kurt Murer, Eling D de Bruin
The effects of melatonin versus placebo on delirium in hip fracture patients: study protocol of a randomised, placebo-controlled, double blind trial
Annemarieke de Jonghe, Barbara C van Munster, Hannah E van Oosten, J Carel Goslings, Peter Kloen, Carolien van Rees, Reinder Wolvius, Romuald van Velde, Marcel M Levi, Joke C Korevaar, Sophia E de Rooij
Primary care providers' perspective on prescribing opioids to older adults with chronic non-cancer pain: A qualitative study
Aerin Spitz, Alison A Moore, Maria Papaleontiou, Evelyn Granieri, Barbara J Turner, M Carrington Reid
Evaluation design of a reactivation care program to prevent functional loss in hospitalised elderly: A cohort study including a randomised controlled trial
Kirsten JE Asmus-Szepesi, Paul L de Vreede, Anna P Nieboer, Jeroen DH van Wijngaarden, Ton JEM Bakker, Ewout W Steyerberg, Johan P Mackenbach
Early and late mortality in elderly patients after hip fracture: a cohort study using administrative health databases in the Lazio region, Italy
Esmeralda Castronuovo, Patrizio Pezzotti, Antonella Franzo, Domenico Di Lallo, Gabriella Guasticchi
Delirium risk screening and haloperidol prophylaxis program in hip fracture patients is a helpful tool in identifying high-risk patients, but does not reduce the incidence of delirium
Anne JH Vochteloo, Sophie Moerman, Boudewijn LS Borger van der Burg, Maarten de Boo, Mark R de Vries, Dieu-Donné Niesten, Wim E Tuinebreijer, Rob GHH Nelissen, Peter Pilot
Relationship between subjective fall risk assessment and falls and fall-related fractures in frail elderly people
Hiroyuki Shimada, Megumi Suzukawa, Tatsuro Ishizaki, Kumiko Kobayashi, Hunkyung Kim, Takao Suzuki
A New Model of Delirium Care in the Acute Geriatric Setting: Geriatric Monitoring Unit
Mei Sian Chong, Mark PC Chan, Jasmine Kang, Huey Charn Han, Yew Yoong Ding, Thai Lian Tan
Long-term declines in ADLs, IADLs, and mobility among older Medicare beneficiaries
Fredric D Wolinsky, Suzanne E Bentler, Jason Hockenberry, Michael P Jones, Maksym Obrizan, Paula AM Weigel, Brian Kaskie, Robert B Wallace
Study protocol of the multi-site randomised controlled REDALI-DEM trial - The effects of structured Relearning methods on Daily Living task performance of persons with Dementia
Sebastian Voigt-Radloff, Rainer Leonhart, Marcel Olde Rikkert, Roy Kessels, Michael Hüll
Are elderly people with co-morbidities involved adequately in medical decision making when hospitalised? A cross-sectional survey
Anne W Ekdahl, Lars Andersson, Ann-Britt Wiréhn, Maria Friedrichsen
Recent trends in chronic disease, impairment and disability among older adults in the United States
William W Hung, Joseph S Ross, Kenneth S Boockvar, Albert L Siu
Patterns of comorbidity in community-dwelling older people hospitalised for fall-related injury: A cluster analysis
Trang Vu, Caroline F Finch, Lesley Day
Calibrating ADL-IADL scales to improve measurement accuracy and to extend the disability construct into the preclinical range: a systematic review
Robert A Fieo, Elizabeth J Austin, John M Starr, Ian J Deary
[Cost]effectiveness of withdrawal of fall-risk increasing drugs versus conservative treatment in older fallers: design of a multicenter randomized controlled trial (IMPROveFALL-study)
Klaas A Hartholt, Nicole DA Boyé, Nathalie Van der Velde, Esther MM Van Lieshout, Suzanne Polinder, Oscar J De Vries, Albert JH Kerver, Gijsbertus Ziere, Milko MM Bruijninckx, Mark R De Vries, Francesco US Mattace-Raso, André G Uitterlinden, Ed F Van Beeck, Paul Lips, Peter Patka, Tischa JM Van der Cammen
Lighting and perceptual cues: Effects on gait measures of older adults at high and low risk for falls
Mariana G Figueiro, Barbara Plitnick, Mary S Rea, Laura Z Gras, Mark S Rea
Predictors of adherence to a multifaceted podiatry intervention for the prevention of falls in older people
Martin J Spink, Mohammad R Fotoohabadi, Elin Wee, Karl B Landorf, Keith D Hill, Stephen R Lord, Hylton B Menz
The effect of regular walks on various health aspects in older people with dementia: protocol of a randomized-controlled trial
Karin M Volkers, Erik JA Scherder
Long-term consequences of an intensive care unit stay in older critically ill patients: design of a longitudinal study
Marie-Madlen Jeitziner, Virpi Hantikainen, Antoinette Conca, Jan PH Hamers
Patterns of ambulatory medical care utilization in elderly patients with special reference to chronic diseases and multimorbidity - Results from a claims data based observational study in Germany
Hendrik van den Bussche, Gerhard Schön, Tina Kolonko, Heike Hansen, Karl Wegscheider, Gerd Glaeske, Daniela Koller
Cognitive function is associated with risk aversion in community-based older persons
Patricia A Boyle, Lei Yu, Aron S Buchman, David I Laibson, David A Bennett
Reducing depression in older home care clients: design of a prospective study of a nurse-led interprofessional mental health promotion intervention
Maureen F Markle-Reid, Carrie McAiney, Dorothy Forbes, Lehana Thabane, Maggie Gibson, Jeffrey S Hoch, Gina Browne, Thomas Peirce, Barbara Busing
Cognitive and memory training in adults at risk of dementia: A Systematic Review
Nicola J Gates, Perminder S Sachdev, Maria A Fiatarone Singh, Michael Valenzuela
Sedative load of medications prescribed for older people with dementia in care homes
Carole Parsons, Jane Haydock, Elspeth Mathie, Natasha Baron, Ina Machen, Elizabeth Stevenson, Sarah Amador, Claire Goodman
Phenomenon of declining blood pressure in elderly - high systolic levels are undervalued with Korotkoff method
Arkadiusz Siennicki-Lantz, Sölve Elmståhl
Development of a short form of Mini-Mental State Examination for the screening of dementia in older adults with a memory complaint: a case control study
Gladys Haubois, Cédric Annweiler, Cyrille Launay, Bruno Fantino, Laure de Decker, Gilles Allali, Olivier Beauchet
Co-morbidity and drug treatment in Alzheimer's disease. A cross sectional study of participants in the Dementia Study in Northern Norway
Fred Andersen, Matti Viitanen, Dag S Halvorsen, Bjørn Straume, Torgeir A Engstad
Is the Nintendo Wii Fit really acceptable to older people?: a discrete choice experiment
Kate Laver, Julie Ratcliffe, Stacey George, Leonie Burgess, Maria Crotty
Features and outcomes of unplanned hospital admissions of older people due to ill-defined (R-coded) conditions: Retrospective analysis of hospital admissions data in England
Bronagh Walsh, Helen C Roberts, Peter G Nicholls
The effect of testosterone and a nutritional supplement on hospital admissions in under-nourished, older people
Cynthia Piantadosi, Renuka Visvanathan, Vasi Naganathan, Peter Hunter, Ian D Cameron, Kylie Lange, Jonathan Karnon, Ian M Chapman
Study Protocol: The Behaviour and Pain in Dementia Study (BePAID)
Sharon Scott, Louise Jones, Martin R Blanchard, Elizabeth L Sampson
Validity and reliability of the Swaymeter device for measuring postural sway
Daina L Sturnieks, Ria Arnold, Stephen R Lord
Older adults who persistently present to the emergency department with severe, non-severe, and indeterminate episode patterns
Brian Kaskie, Maksym Obrizan, Michael P Jones, Suzanne Bentler, Paula Weigel, Jason Hockenberry, Robert B Wallace, Robert L Ohsfeldt, Gary E Rosenthal, Fredric D Wolinsky
Meeting the home-care needs of disabled older persons living in the community: does integrated services delivery make a difference?
Nicole Dubuc, Marie-France Dubois, Michel Raîche, N'Deye Rokhaya Gueye, Réjean Hébert
The contribution of home-based technology to older people's quality of life in extra care housing
Hossein Matlabi, Stuart G Parker, Kevin McKee
High frequency of diastolic dysfunction in a population-based cohort of elderly women - but poor association with the symptom dyspnea
Alfried Germing, Michael Gotzmann, Tamara Schikowski, Andrea Vierkötter, Ulrich Ranft, Ursula Krämer, Andreas Mügge
The validation of a new measure quantifying the social quality of life of ethnically diverse older women: two cross-sectional studies
Luciana Laganà, Maria L Bratly, Ioakim Boutakidis
Prevention of urinary tract infections in nursing homes: lack of evidence-based prescription?
Jenny Bergman, Jan Schjøtt, Hege S Blix
Depression after low-energy fracture in older women predicts future falls: a prospective observational study
Martha van den Berg, Noortje A Verdijk, Geraline L Leusink, Colette JM Wijnands-van Gent, Arnold C Romeijnders, Victor JM Pop, Joop PW van den Bergh
Use of CNS medications and cognitive decline in the aged: a longitudinal population-based study
Juha Puustinen, Janne Nurminen, Minna Löppönen, Tero Vahlberg, Raimo Isoaho, Ismo Räihä, Sirkka-Liisa Kivelä
Executive function predicts risk of falls in older adults without balance impairment
Teresa J Buracchio, Nora C Mattek, Hiroko H Dodge, Tamara L Hayes, Misha Pavel, Diane B Howieson, Jeffrey A Kaye
Effectiveness of laxatives in elderly - a cross sectional study in nursing homes
Gunvor S Fosnes, Stian Lydersen, Per G Farup
Effects of whole-body vibration on postural control in elderly: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Slavko Rogan, Roger Hilfiker, Kaspar Herren, Lorenz Radlinger, Eling D de Bruin
Elderly care in daily living in rural Vietnam: Need and its socioeconomic determinants
Le V Hoi, Pham Thang, Lars Lindholm
The influences of childlessness on the psychological well-being and social network of the oldest old
Josefin Vikström, Marie Bladh, Mats Hammar, Jan Marcusson, Ewa Wressle, Gunilla Sydsjö
A taboo within a stigma? a qualitative study of managing incontinence with people with dementia living at home
Vari M Drennan, Laura Cole, Steve Iliffe
Medication administration errors for older people in long-term residential care
Ala Szczepura, Deidre Wild, Sara Nelson
An organizing framework for informal caregiver interventions: detailing caregiving activities and caregiver and care recipient outcomes to optimize evaluation efforts
Courtney Harold Van Houtven, Corrine I Voils, Morris Weinberger
Exposure to general anesthesia and risk of Alzheimer's disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Dallas P Seitz, Prakesh S Shah, Nathan Herrmann, Joseph Beyene, Naveed Siddiqui
Mobility of Vulnerable Elders (MOVE): study protocol to evaluate the implementation and outcomes of a mobility intervention in long-term care facilities
Susan E Slaughter, Carole A Estabrooks, C Allyson Jones, Adrian S Wagg
Rationale and design of the B-PROOF study, a randomized controlled trial on the effect of supplemental intake of vitamin B12and folic acid on fracture incidence
Janneke P van Wijngaarden, Rosalie AM Dhonukshe-Rutten, Natasja M van Schoor, Nathalie van der Velde, Karin MA Swart, Anke W Enneman, Suzanne C van Dijk, Elske M Brouwer-Brolsma, M Carola Zillikens, Joyce BJ van Meurs, Johannes Brug, André G Uitterlinden, Paul Lips, Lisette CPGM de Groot
Inappropriate medication use among the elderly: a systematic review of administrative databases
Lusiele Guaraldo, Fabíola G Cano, Glauciene S Damasceno, Suely Rozenfeld
Falls and falls efficacy: the role of sustained attention in older adults
Aisling M O'Halloran, Nils Pénard, Alessandra Galli, Chie Wei Fan, Ian H Robertson, Rose Anne Kenny
A mixed methods study of hope, transitions, and quality of life in family caregivers of persons with Alzheimer's disease
Wendy D Duggleby, Jennifer Swindle, Shelley Peacock, Sunita Ghosh
Gender differences in Greek centenarians. A cross-sectional nation-wide study, examining multiple socio-demographic and personality factors and health locus of control
Xanthi Tigani, Artemios K Artemiadis, Evangelos C Alexopoulos, George P Chrousos, Christina Darviri
Clinical characteristics and prognosis of acute bacterial meningitis in elderly patients over 65: a hospital-based study
Wei-An Lai, Shu-Fang Chen, Nai-Wen Tsai, Chiung-Chih Chang, Wen-Neng Chang, Cheng-Hsien Lu, Yao-Chung Chuang, Chun-Chih Chien, Chi-Ren Huang
Unmet need and psychological distress predict emergency department visits in community-dwelling elderly women: a prospective cohort study
Jacqueline M Quail, Christina Wolfson, Abby Lippman
Whole body vibration for older persons: an open randomized, multicentre, parallel, clinical trial
Mercè Sitjà-Rabert, Mª José Martínez-Zapata, Azahara Fort-Vanmeerhaeghe, Ferran Rey-Abella, Daniel Romero-Rodríguez, Xavier Bonfill
Study protocol: follow-up home visits with nutrition: a randomised controlled trial
Anne Marie Beck, Stine Kjær, Birthe S Hansen, Rikke L Storm, Kirsten Thal-Jantzen
The assessment of renal function in relation to the use of drugs in elderly in nursing homes; a cohort study
Sara Modig, Christina Lannering, Carl Johan Östgren, Sigvard Mölstad, Patrik Midlöv
Are old-old patients with major depression more likely to relapse than young-oldpatients during continuation treatment with escitalopram?
Constantine G Lyketsos, Emmanuelle Weiller, Cornelius Katona, Phillip Gorwood
Reduced clinical and postmortem measures of cardiac pathology in subjects with advanced Alzheimer's Disease
Thomas G Beach, Chera L Maarouf, Reed G Brooks, Scophil Shirohi, Ian D Daugs, Lucia I Sue, Marwan N Sabbagh, Douglas G Walker, LihFen Lue, Alex E Roher
Fecal pancreatic elastase-1 levels in older individuals without known gastrointestinal diseases or diabetes mellitus
Karl-Heinz Herzig, Anna-Kaisa Purhonen, Kati M Räsänen, Joanna Idziak, Petri Juvonen, Ryszard Phillps, Jaroslaw Walkowiak
Eccentric exercise versus Usual-care with older cancer survivors: The impact on muscle and mobility- an exploratory pilot study
Paul C LaStayo, Robin L Marcus, Lee E Dibble, Sheldon B Smith, Susan L Beck
An interdisciplinary intervention to prevent falls in community-dwelling elderly persons: protocol of a cluster-randomized trial [PreFalls]
Wolfgang A Blank, Ellen Freiberger, Monika Siegrist, Peter Landendoerfer, Klaus Linde, Tibor Schuster, Klaus Pfeifer, Antonius Schneider, Martin Halle
Incident venous thromboembolic events in the Prospective Study of Pravastatin in the Elderly at Risk (PROSPER)
Dilys J Freeman, Michele Robertson, E Ann Brown, Ann Rumley, Edward S Tobias, Marijke Frölich, P Eline Slagboom, J Wouter Jukema, Anton JM de Craen, Naveed Sattar, Ian Ford, Allan Gaw, Ian A Greer, Gordon DO Lowe, David J Stott
Effects of oral intake of water in patients with oropharyngeal dysphagia
Martha JP Karagiannis, Leonie Chivers, Tom C Karagiannis
Nursing home care for people with dementia and residents' quality of life, quality of care and staff well-being: Design of the Living Arrangements for people with Dementia (LAD) - study
Bernadette M Willemse, Dieneke Smit, Jacomine de Lange, Anne Margriet Pot