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Abstracts: Life-sustaining treatments: what do physicians want and do they express their wishes to others? Prognosis communication in serious illness: perceptions of older patients, caregivers, and clinicians
Abstracts: Life-sustaining treatments: what do physicians want and do they express their wishes to others? part 2 Physical functioning, depression, and preferences for treatment at the end of life: the Johns Hopkins precursors study
Abstracts: Linda Ellerbee's holiday miracle. Let the good times roll ... at last. The art of growing younger - and happier
Abstracts: Lipoprotein A serum levels and vascular diseases in an older Caucasian population cohort. Leukoaraiosis predicts hidden global functioning impairment in nondisabled older people: the LADIS (Leukoaraiosis and Disability in the elderly) study
Abstracts: Litigation or redesign: Improving pressure ulcer prevention. Nursing home resident and facility characteristics associated with pneumococcal vaccination: National nursing home survey, 1995-1999
Abstracts: Live longer and better; seven secrets of a richer life now and tomorrow. Seven ways to keep your sanity
Abstracts: Location and well-being among retired men. House calls for the 21st Century. Elder-proxy agreement concerning the functional status and medical history of the older person: the impact of caregiver burden and depressive symptomatology
Abstracts: Loneliness is a unique predictor of age-related differences in systolic blood pressure. Aging and the detection of observer and moving object collisions
Abstracts: Loneliness is a unique predictor of age-related differences in systolic blood pressure. part 2 Neuropsychological mediators of the links among age, chronic illness, and everyday problem solving
Abstracts: Longitudinal change in language production: effects of aging and dementia on grammatical complexity and propositional content
Abstracts: Longitudinal changes in the contribution of genetic and environmental influences to symptoms of depression in older male twins
Abstracts: Longitudinal driving performance in early-stage dementia of the Alzheimer type. Prophylactic anticoagulation for venous thromboembolic disease in geriatric patients
Abstracts: Longitudinal patterns of risk for depression in dementia caregivers: Objective and subjective primary stress as predictors
Abstracts: Longitudinal study of changes in hip bone mineral density in Caucasian and African - American women. Moderate physical activity is associated with higher bone mineral density in postmenopausal women
Abstracts: Long-term caloric restriction improves baroreflex sensitivity in aging Fischer 344 rats. Effects of dietary protein restriction on nitrogen balance and cardiovascular functions in aged rats
Abstracts: Long-term care liability for pressure ulcers. Cost analysis of nursing home registered nurse staffing times. The national pressure ulcer long-term care study: outcomes of pressure ulcer treatments in long-term care
Abstracts: Long-term continuous use of benzodiazepines by older adults in Quebec: prevalence, incidence and risk factors
Abstracts: Long-term dietary restriction in older-aged rhesus monkeys: effects on insulin resistance. Commentary on "Effect of Long-term Caloric Restriction on GLUT4, Phosphatidylinositol-3 Kinase p85 Subunit, and Insulin Receptor Substrate-1 Protein Levels in Rhesus Monkey Skeletal Muscle"
Abstracts: Long-term effects of exercise on psychological functioning in older men and women. Caregiver needs and patterns of social support
Abstracts: Long-term exercise and its effect on balance in older, osteoarthritic adults: results from the fitness, arthritis, and seniors trial (FAST)
Abstracts: Long-term exercise therapy resolves ethnic differences in baseline health status in older adults with knee Osteoarthritis
Abstracts: Long-term prediction of incident hip fracture risk in elderly white women: study of osteoporosis fractures. Urinary incontinence: Does it increase risk for falls and fractures?
Abstracts: Long-term risks of death and institutionalization of elderly people in relation to deficit accumulation at age 70
Abstracts: Look 10 pounds thinner; if you dress artfully, you won't need to diet. Thinking outside the jewelry box; take a look at what you have. Then have fun
Abstracts: Looking beyond the 'form' to complex interventions needed to improve end-of-life care. The impact of regular multidisciplinary team interventions on psychotropic prescribing in Swedish nursing homes
Abstracts: Looking for romance? Here's how. Finding the right volunteer work for you. Cures for the holiday blues
Abstracts: Looking for romance? Here's how. Using work to hide from problems? How to break the pattern. The people we singles dress for
Abstracts: Love talk that can perk up your marriage. What makes their marriage so special. Break out of a rut and renew your marriage bond
Abstracts: Low airloss hydrotherapy versus standard care for incontinent hospitalized patients. The increasing medical malpractice risk related to pressure ulcers in the United States
Abstracts: Lower all-cause, cardiovascular, and cancer mortality in centenarians' offspring. Cardiovascular risk factors predictive for survival and morbidity-free survival in the oldest-old Framingham Heart Study participants
Abstracts: Lower-extremity functioning in older Mexican Americans and its association with medical problems. Peripheral arterial disease in African Americans: clinical characteristics, leg symptoms, and lower extremity functioning
Abstracts: Lower incidence of tardive dyskinesia with risperidone compared with haloperidol in older patients. Silent ischemia during voluntary detraining and future cardiac events in master athletes
Abstracts: Low plasma insulin-like growth factor-1 concentrations predict worsening of insulin-mediated glucose uptake in older people
Abstracts: Low prevalence of hearing aid use among older adults with hearing loss: the epidemiology of hearing loss study
Abstracts: Low serum calcidiol concentration in older adults with reduced muscular function. Long-term functional outcome after intensive care
Abstracts: Low testosterone is associated with decreased function and increased mortality risk: A preliminary study of men in a geriatric rehabilitation unit
Abstracts: Lymphocyte count and mortality risk in older persons: the Leiden 85-plus study. Cross-linked fibrin degradation products (D-Dimer), plasma cytokines, and cognitive decline in community-dwelling elderly persons
Abstracts: Lymphocyte count and mortality risk in older persons: the Leiden 85-plus study. part 2 Effects of vitamin D supplementation on strength, physical function, and health perception in older, community-dwelling men
Abstracts: Magnesium intake from food and supplements is associated with bone mineral density in healthy older white subjects
Abstracts: Mailed reminders for area-wide influenza imunization: a randomized controlled trial. Influenza season triggers pneumococcal vaccination
Abstracts: Maintenance requirements for dietary protein in 11- and 18-month-old male rats. Exercise reduces age-dependent decrease in platelet protein kinase C activity and translocation
Abstracts: Make the most of volunteering. Remarriage and your money. What do you owe your kids?
Abstracts: Makeup secrets I learned on the job. The diet that worked for me. Hairdos... and don'ts
Abstracts: Making a home more 'elder-friendly.'(New Choices in Caregiving)(includes related resources information) The continuing-care alternative
Abstracts: Making difficult decisions about hospice enrollment: what do patients and families want to know? Hospice usage by minorities in the last year of life: results from the national mortality followback survey
Abstracts: Making the most out of a $30,000 nest egg. Long-term investing: gaining profits and pleasure. Investments that will help you beat inflation
Abstracts: Making the right choice on Pension survivor benefits. Plan a second career - doing work you truly enjoy. Be sure you've got a will and durable power of attorney
Abstracts: Making your mutual funds less taxing. These new rules could be great for your estate. Finding hidden tax breaks
Abstracts: Mammography use among women as a function of age and patient involvement in decision-making. Breast cancer screening in older women
Abstracts: Managed care, managing ethics. Competency and consent in dementia. Revenue streams and clinical discretion
Abstracts: Managed care: the third reorganization of health care. The clinical utility of a six-minute walk test in peripheral arterial occlusive disease patients
Abstracts: Management of the older person with ventricular arrythmias. Of worms and women: sarcopenia and its role in disability and mortality
Abstracts: Marital closeness, functional disability, and adjustment in late life. Prospective patterns of resilience and maladjustment during widowhood
Abstracts: Marital discord and well-being in older adults: Is the association confounded by personality? Positive and negative characteristics of marital interaction and their association with marital satisfaction in middle-aged and older couples
Abstracts: Marvelous main dish salads. Partners in life, partners in work? When husbands invade the kitchen
Abstracts: Marvelous muffins. Short & sweet road trips. Sweet treats for chocolate lovers
Abstracts: Masterpieces through your modem. The Internet time machine. Sites to see before you hit the road
Abstracts: Maximizing your medical expenses. Their plans for your money. Cut your 2000 tax bill
Abstracts: Measures of postural stability are not predictors of recovery from large postural disturbances in health older adults
Abstracts: Measuring blood pressure and treating hypertension in (frail) older people. A controlled study of MRI signal hyperintensities in older depressed patients with and without hypertension
Abstracts: Measuring fitness in healthy older adults: the Health ABC Long Distance Corridor Walk. Chronic kidney disease and functional limitation in older people: health, aging and body composition study
Abstracts: Measuring the activities of daily living: comparisons across national surveys. Functional capacity and living arrangements of unmarried elderly persons
Abstracts: Measuring the psychological outcomes of falling: a systematic review. Newly reported chronic conditions and onset of functional dependency
Abstracts: Medical and cognitive correlates of denture wearing in older community-dwelling adults. The mini-cog as a screen for dementia: validation in a population-based sample
Abstracts: Medical breakthroughs that you can use right now. The best new medicines on the market today. AIDS: what every mature adult needs to know
Abstracts: Medical comorbidity and rehabilitation efficiency in geriatric inpatients. Comorbidity is a better predictor of impaired immunity than chronological age in older adults
Abstracts: Medical conditions associated with driving cessation in community-dwelling, ambulatory elders. Community characteristics associated with elder abuse
Abstracts: Medical cost for disability: a longitudinal observation of National Health Insurance beneficiaries in Japan. Care-needs certification in the long-term care insurance system of Japan
Abstracts: Medical tests you can do at home. What to do about that cough. So your body and mind won't let you down: here's what you should know and do
Abstracts: Medical tests you must have - and those you can skip. Washington politicians who favor seniors - and those who don't
Abstracts: MediCaring: development and test marketing of a supportive care benefit for older people. Dying with acute respiratory failure or multiple organ system failure with sepsis
Abstracts: Medication management capacity in highly functioning community-living older adults: detection of early deficits
Abstracts: Medicine's latest weapons against prostate troubles. 50 simple ways to live healthier. 10 simple ways to boost your energy
Abstracts: Memory complaint in a community sample aged 70 and older. Hypoglycemia in hospitalized nondiabetic older patients
Abstracts: Memory complaint is not necessary for diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment and does not predict 10-year trajectories of functional disability, word recall, or short portable mental status questionnaire limitations
Abstracts: Memory for context and its use in item memory: comparisons of younger and older persons. Adult age differences in controlled and automatic memory processing
Abstracts: Mental and physical health of caregiving spouses: development of a causal model. Psychiatric and physical morbidity effects of caregiving
Abstracts: Mental illness in late life: socioeconomic conditions, psychiatric symptoms, and adjustment of long-term sufferers
Abstracts: Methodological control of semantic priming in Alzheimer's disease. Age-related priming effects in social judgments
Abstracts: Midlife crisis? Fear not! The joy of siblings: why midlife is often the time we finally come to appreciate our brothers and sisters
Abstracts: Mild cognitive deterioration with subcortical features: prevalence, clinical characteristics, and association with cardiovascular risk factors in community-dwelling older persons (the InCHIANTI Study)
Abstracts: Minireview: aging and anti-aging effects of hormones. Minireview: age-related changes in the anatomy of the normal human heart
Abstracts: Minor and subsyndromal depression: functional disability worth treating. Bilateral internuclear ophthalmoplegia: an initial presenting sign of giant cell arteritis
Abstracts: Minor and subsyndromal depression: functional disability worth treating. part 2 Psychotropic medication withdrawal and a home-based exercise program to prevent falls: a randomized, controlled trial
Abstracts: Mismatches between the home environment and physical capabilities among community-living older persons. Health, functional, and psychological outcomes among older persons with chronic dizziness
Abstracts: Misreporting of total energy intake in older men and women. Higher systemic arterial compliance is associated with greater exercise time and lower blood pressure in a young older population
Abstracts: Missing-data in epidemiological studies of age-associated cognitive decline. Thoracic kyphosis and ventilatory dysfunction in unselected older persons: an epidemiological study in Dicomano, Italy
Abstracts: Mixed trends in population health among older adults. The next half-century of aging research - and thoughts for the past
Abstracts: Mobility difficulties and physical activity as predictors of mortality and loss of independence in the community-living older population
Abstracts: Modeling age and retest processes in longitudinal studies of cognitive abilities. What needs to be explained to account for age-related effects on multiple congnitive variables?
Abstracts: Modeling late-life adaptation in affective well-being under a chronic health condition: The case of age-related macular degeneration
Abstracts: Models of intelligence in late life: Comment on Hultsch et al. Structural equation model of intellectual change and continuity and predictors of intelligence in older men
Abstracts: Modifiable risk factors predict functional decline among older women: A prospectively validated clinical prediction tool
Abstracts: Mood induction with older adults: a tool for investigating effects of depressed mood. Age and emotional response to the Northridge earthquake: a longitudinal analysis
Abstracts: More a star than ever ... in her own life. Are reverse mortgages for you? Will they ever live happily ever after in the magic kingdom?
Abstracts: More money for retirement. Last chance for 2001 tax savings. The biggest retirement myth
Abstracts: Mortality, health services use, and health behavior in a cohort of well older adults. Biomechanical properties of shoes and risk of falls in older adults
Abstracts: Mortality one-year postdischarge from a Veterans Affairs Geriatric Evaluation and Management Unit: assessing mortality risks
Abstracts: Mothering instead of career: was it worth it? "We're back!" When adult kids return to the empty nest ... a plan for coping
Abstracts: Motivation to volunteer by older adults: a test of competing measurement models. Age and motives for volunteering: testing Hypotheses derived from socioemotional selectivity theory
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