
Volume 30, Issue 6
November 2001
ISSN 0002-0729
EISSN 1468-2834
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Volume 30, Issue 6, November 2001
Editorials
Purity, pragmatism and hip protector pads
A. John Campbell
Age and Ageing, Volume 30, Issue 6, November 2001, Pages 431–432, https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/30.6.431
Intermediate care: more than ‘a nursing thing’
Andrea Steiner
Age and Ageing, Volume 30, Issue 6, November 2001, Pages 433–435, https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/30.6.433
Nutrition in the terminal stages of life in nursing‐home patients
Marcel G. M. Olde Rikkert and Willibrord H. L. Hoefnagels
Age and Ageing, Volume 30, Issue 6, November 2001, Pages 436–438, https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/30.6.436
The promise and challenge of providing assistive technology to older people
Peter Lansley
Age and Ageing, Volume 30, Issue 6, November 2001, Pages 439–440, https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/30.6.439
Commentary
Can we manage more acutely ill elderly patients in the community?
Andrew T. Elder
Age and Ageing, Volume 30, Issue 6, November 2001, Pages 441–443, https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/30.6.441
Announcement
Announcement
Age and Ageing, Volume 30, Issue 6, November 2001, Page 444, https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/30.6.444
News and reviews
News and reviews
Diogenes
Age and Ageing, Volume 30, Issue 6, November 2001, Pages 445–446, https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/30.6.445
Notes on the biology of ageing
The silence of the genes
Leonardo
Age and Ageing, Volume 30, Issue 6, November 2001, Pages 447–448, https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/30.6.447
Reviews
Molecular genetics and age‐related disease
Charlotte E. Ruse and Stuart G. Parker
Age and Ageing, Volume 30, Issue 6, November 2001, Pages 449–454, https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/30.6.449
Assistive technology in elderly care
Frank G. Miskelly
Age and Ageing, Volume 30, Issue 6, November 2001, Pages 455–458, https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/30.6.455
Research Papers
Withholding or withdrawing artificial administration of food and fluids in nursing‐home patients
Bregje D. Onwuteaka‐Philipsen and others
Age and Ageing, Volume 30, Issue 6, November 2001, Pages 459–465, https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/30.6.459
Hypovitaminosis D and ‘functional hypoparathyroidism’—the NoNoF (Nottingham Neck of Femur) study
Opinder Sahota and others
Age and Ageing, Volume 30, Issue 6, November 2001, Pages 467–472, https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/30.6.467
Risk communication and older people—understanding of probability and risk information by medical inpatients aged 75 years and older
Richard Fuller and others
Age and Ageing, Volume 30, Issue 6, November 2001, Pages 473–476, https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/30.6.473
Hip protectors in aged‐care facilities: a randomized trial of use by individual higher‐risk residents
Ian D. Cameron and others
Age and Ageing, Volume 30, Issue 6, November 2001, Pages 477–481, https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/30.6.477
Substitution of a nursing‐led inpatient unit for acute services: randomized controlled trial of outcomes and cost of nursing‐led intermediate care
Peter Griffiths and others
Age and Ageing, Volume 30, Issue 6, November 2001, Pages 483–488, https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/30.6.483
Coping with activities of daily living in different care settings
Pia Laukkanen and others
Age and Ageing, Volume 30, Issue 6, November 2001, Pages 489–494, https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/30.6.489
Factors associated with health status of older Americans
James K. Cooper and Thomas Kohlmann
Age and Ageing, Volume 30, Issue 6, November 2001, Pages 495–501, https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/30.6.495
The prevalence of faecal incontinence in older people living at home
Nia I. Edwards and Dee Jones
Age and Ageing, Volume 30, Issue 6, November 2001, Pages 503–507, https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/30.6.503
Active and cognitive impairment‐free life expectancies: results from the Melton Mowbray 75+ health checks
Catherine Sauvaget and others
Age and Ageing, Volume 30, Issue 6, November 2001, Pages 509–515, https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/30.6.509
Community surveys of late‐life depression: who are the non‐responders?
Ulrich Freudenstein and others
Age and Ageing, Volume 30, Issue 6, November 2001, Pages 517–521, https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/30.6.517
Case Report
Ginkgo biloba precipitating epileptic seizures
Andrew S. Granger
Age and Ageing, Volume 30, Issue 6, November 2001, Pages 523–525, https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/30.6.523
Letters to the Editor
Use of a new tool and detection of aspiration in decision‐making for safe feeding after stroke
Shinji Teramoto and others
Age and Ageing, Volume 30, Issue 6, November 2001, Pages 527–530, https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/30.6.527
The contribution of obesity to dyspnoea in elderly people
Yitshal N. Berner
Age and Ageing, Volume 30, Issue 6, November 2001, Page 530, https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/30.6.530
Unlicensed and off‐label drug use in elderly people
Alison Hames and Hilary A. Wynne
Age and Ageing, Volume 30, Issue 6, November 2001, Pages 530–531, https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/30.6.530-a
Modified Admission Case‐Mix for the Elderly
Edmund Dunstan
Age and Ageing, Volume 30, Issue 6, November 2001, Pages 531–532, https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/30.6.531
The use of rehabilitation services by private nursing homes in Nottingham
Catherine M. Sackley and others
Age and Ageing, Volume 30, Issue 6, November 2001, Pages 532–533, https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/30.6.532
A survey of community training and experience for specialist registrars in elderly‐care medicine
Anita Bansal and John Young
Age and Ageing, Volume 30, Issue 6, November 2001, Pages 533–534, https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/30.6.533
Book Reviews
The Science of Geriatrics
Michael Lye
Age and Ageing, Volume 30, Issue 6, November 2001, Page 535, https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/30.6.535
Dementia
Tom Dening
Age and Ageing, Volume 30, Issue 6, November 2001, Pages 535–536, https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/30.6.535-a
Stroke at your Fingertips: the comprehensive and medically accurate manual about stroke and how to deal with it
Nigel Dudley
Age and Ageing, Volume 30, Issue 6, November 2001, Page 536, https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/30.6.536
Textbook of Geriatric Neuropsychiatry
Ian G. McKeith
Age and Ageing, Volume 30, Issue 6, November 2001, Pages 536–537, https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/30.6.536-a
Forthcoming meetings
Forthcoming meetings
Age and Ageing, Volume 30, Issue 6, November 2001, Page 538, https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/30.6.538
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