Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

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  Año 2006, Vol. 54, Número 6

  • Treatment of uncorrected refractive error improves vision-specific quality of life

    C. M. Mangione, A. L. Coleman, F. Yu, E. Keeler

    pág. 883

    

  • Healthcare utilization of elderly persons hospitalized after a noninjurious fall in a Swiss Academic Medical Center

    C. J. Büla, L. Seematte, V. Wietlisbach, B. Yersin

    pág. 891

    

  • Education, cognitive test scores, and black-white differences in dementia risk

    C. Dulberg, L. H. Kuller, Jackson, S., M. F. Shadlen, Siscovick, D., A. L. Fitzpatrick

    pág. 898

    

  • Predictors of mortality in the old-old in Israel: The cross-sectional and longitudinal aging study

    M. Ben-Ezra, D. Shmotkin

    pág. 906

    

  • Association between blood pressure and survival over 9 years in a general population aged 85 and older

    A. Verkkoniemi, P. Halonen, K. Juva, L. Niinistö, K. Mattila, E. Länsimies, R. Sulkava, S. Rastas, T. Pirttilä, P. Viramo

    pág. 912

    

  • Feeding assistance needs of long-stay nursing home residents and staff time to provide care

    Sandra F. Simmons, John F. Schnelle

    págs. 919-924

    

  • Cognitive function of older patients receiving adjuvant chemotherapy for breast cancer: A pilot prospective longitudinal study

    E. Zuckerman, K. S. Panageas, M. S. Lachs, M. Witmer, W. G. van Gorp, M. Fornier, G. D'Andrea, M. Moasser, Ch. Dang, C. VanPoznak, Arti Hurria, J. Holland, C. Rosen, C. Hudis

    pág. 925

    

  • Risk of cognitive decline in older patients after carotid endarterectomy: An observational study

    G. Cappa, K. Strumia, P. Cerrato, Federico Ponzio, L. Poli, M. Bo, M. Massaia, S. Speme

    pág. 932

    

  • Impaired executive function is associated with delirium after coronary artery bypass graft surgery

    W. P. Milberg, E. G. King, L. A. Lipsitz, S. E. Levkoff, Marcantonio, E.R., Rudolph, J.L., Jones, R.N., L. J. Grande

    pág. 937

    

  • Provider characteristics related to antidepressant use in older people

    T. R. Konrad, B. M. Burchett, Dan G. Blazer, Fillenbaum, G. G., Celia F. Hybels, Carl F. Pieper

    pág. 942

    

  • Effect of an in-home occupational and physical therapy intervention on reducing mortality in functionally vulnerable older people: Preliminary findings

    M. P. Dennis, Richard Schulz, Laura N. Gitlin, W. W. Hauck, L. Winter

    pág. 950

    

  • An emergency medical services program to promote the health of older adults

    R. J. Fairbanks, R. McCann, S. M. Schneider, M. N. Shah, L. Clarkson, E. B. Lerner

    pág. 956

    

  • Computerized prescribing alerts and group academic detailing to reduce the use of potentially inappropriate medications in older people

    Perrin, N., Xiuhai Yang, Y. Zhou, Platt, R., S. D. Soumerai, S. R. Simon, D. H. Smith, Feldstein, A.C.

    pág. 963

    

  • Replicating the hospital elder life program in a community hospital and demonstrating effectiveness using quality improvement methodology

    W. J. Mook, S. Hassan, Sharon K. Inouye, F. H. Rubin, J. T. Williams, D. A. Lescisin

    pág. 969

    

  • Long-term risks of death and institutionalization of elderly people in relation to deficit accumulation at age 70

    B. Steen, I. Skoog, Rockwood, K., A. Mitnitski, X. Song

    pág. 975

    

  • Increasing sex and ethnic/racial diversity of researchers in aging: Some promising strategies at the postdoctoral level

    S. J. Lent, L. Bakken, M. Carnes, L. Schuler, G. E. Sarto

    pág. 980

    

  • Health care for older persons in Switzerland: A country profile

    A. W. Schoenenberger, A. E. Stuck

    pág. 986

    

  • Research agenda for frailty in older adults: Toward a better understanding of physiology and etiology

    Jack M. Guralnik, Anne B. Newman, Stephanie A. Studenski, W. B. Ershler, T. Harris, L. P. Fried, J. Walston, E. C. Hadley, Luigi Ferrucci

    pág. 991

    

  • Use of Oral Supplements in Nursing Homes: Remaining Questions

    Jeanie S. Kayser-Jones

    pág. 1002

    

  • Acute myocardial infarction presenting with transient global amnesia

    N. M. Akkawi, T. Bordonali, A. Padovani

    pág. 1004

    

  • Antimuscarinic drugs for overactive bladder and and their effects on cognitive function in older patients

    Ch. Agosti, B. Borroni, Paul J. Drinka

    pág. 1004

    

  • Association between diastolic blood pressure and lower hemoglobin A1C and frontal brain atrophy in elderly subjects with diabetes mellitus

    K. Yamasaki, H. Hirai, H. Endo, K. Yokono, Sakurai, T., M. Kuranaga, T. Takata

    pág. 1005

    

  • Diagnosis of chronic kidney disease in elderly subjects with diabetes mellitus

    C. Perlemoine, N. Barthe, P. Chauveau, C. Combe, H. Gin, V. Rigalleau, C. Lasseur, C. Raffaitin

    pág. 1007

    

  • Do all patients with mild cognitive impairment progress to dementia?

    G. Domes, A. Kurz, Panagiotis Alexopoulos, T. Grimmer, R. Perneczky

    pág. 1008

    

  • Ethnonutrition-those home-sweet-home foods

    Marianne K. G. Tanabe, C. Jasper

    pág. 1010

    

  • Geriatric nutritional risk index: A possible nutritional risk index

    A. Vanotti, Emanuele Cereda, D. Limonta, Ch. Pusani

    pág. 1011

    

  • Geriatric patients mobility status as reflected by the relevant items of the Barthel index and in-hospital falls

    J. Vogel, W. von Renteln-Kruse, T. Krause, P. Dieckmann

    pág. 1012

    

  • Involuntary weight loss associated with cholinesterase inhibitors in dementia

    J. T. Stewart, A. R. Gorelik

    pág. 1013

    

  • Five-year experience with the long-term care insurance system in Japan

    Kazunori Kikuchi, Ryutaro Takahashi, Yoko Sugihara, Yumi Inagi

    pág. 1014

    

  • Persistence with bisphosphonate therapy in older people

    Juurlink, D., A. Laupacis, Mamdani, M., M. Melo, Feng Qiu, K. Sykora

    pág. 1015