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Abstracts: Physician-patient congruence regarding medication regimens. Blood pressure response to strength training may be influenced by angiotensinogen A - 20C and angiotensin II type I receptor A1166C genotypes in older men and women
Abstracts: Physician recognition of cognitive impairment: evaluating the need for improvement. Hormone use and cognitive performance in women of advanced age
Abstracts: Physician-related barriers to breast cancer screening in older women. The biology of breast cancer in older women
Abstracts: Physicians experiences with demented patients with advance euthanasia directives in the Netherlands. Prehospital DNR orders: what do physicians in Washington know?
Abstracts: Physicians "missing in action": family perspectives on physician and staffing problems in end-of-life care in the nursing home
Abstracts: Physicians vary in approaches to the clinical management of delirium. Psychotropic prescription use by community-dwelling elderly in the United States
Abstracts: Physician visits, emergency room utilization, and overnight hospitalization in the old-old in Israel: the cross-sectional and longitudinal aging study
Abstracts: Plasma antioxidants and cognitive performance in middle-aged and older adults: results of the Austrian stroke prevention study
Abstracts: Plasma hypertonicity: another marker of frailty? Body weight change and mortality in a cohort of elderly patients recently discharged from the hospital
Abstracts: Play by play. Arizona angels. Oh, grow up!
Abstracts: Pneumococcal polysaccharide revaccination: immunoglobulin G seroconversion, persistence, and safety in frail, chronically ill older subjects
Abstracts: Polymorphic variation in the human myostatin (GDF-8) gene and association with strength measures in the Women's Health and Aging Study II cohort
Abstracts: Poor sleep is associated with higher plasma proinflammatory cytokine interleukin-6 and procoagulant marker fibrin d-dimer in older caregivers of people with Alzheimer's disease
Abstracts: Positive and negative social exchanges: weighing their effects in later life. The methodology of social scientific research in gerontology: progress and issues
Abstracts: Possible medication errors in home healthcare patients. The role of benzodiazepines in the treatment of insomnia
Abstracts: Post-event review in older and younger adults: improving memory accessibility of complex everyday events. Aging can spare recollection-based retrieval monitoring: The importance of event distinctiveness
Abstracts: Postmenopausal hormone replacement therapy use by older Mexican-American women. Self-reported heart attack in Mexican-American elders: examination of incidence, prevalence, and 7-year mortality
Abstracts: Postoperative pain management in elderly patients: correlation between adherence to treatment guidelines and patient satisfaction
Abstracts: Postprandial hypotension in long-term care elderly patients on enteral feeding. Community-acquired bacterial meningitis in older people
Abstracts: Post-translational control. Mapping senescence genes. A unifying hypothesis to explain the retardation of aging and tumorigenesis by caloric restriction
Abstracts: Postural stability and associated physiological factors in a population of aged persons. Myocardial GLUT-4 glucose transporter protein levels of rats decline with advancing age
Abstracts: Potentially inappropriate medication use by elderly persons in U.S. health maintenance organizations, 2000 - 2001
Abstracts: Potentially inappropriate prescribing in elderly veterans: are we using the wrong drug, wrong dose, or wrong duration?
Abstracts: Potentially inappropriate prescribing in Ontario community-dwelling older adults and nursing home residents. The value of positron emission tomography in the clinical evaluation of dementia
Abstracts: Practical intelligence at work: relationship between aging and cognitive efficiency among managers in a bank environment
Abstracts: Practice guidelines: a limited role in resolving rationing decisions. When space is limited ... try container gardening
Abstracts: Preaching to the unconverted: educating physicians about elder abuse. Commentaries on 'Preaching to the unconverted: educating physicians about elder abuse.'(need to medicalize elder abuse)
Abstracts: Predicting adverse postoperative outcomes in patients aged 80 years or older. Improving advance care planning: lessons from POLST
Abstracts: Predicting episodic memory performance of very old men and women: contributions from age, depression, activity, cognitive ability, and speed
Abstracts: Predicting functional status outcomes in hospitalized patients aged 80 years and older. Age differences in care practices and outcomes for hospitalized patients with cancer
Abstracts: Predicting hospitalization and functional decline in older health plan enrollees: are administrative data as accurate as self-report?
Abstracts: Predicting stroke recovery: three- and six- month rates of patient-centered functional outcomes based on the Orpington prognostic scale
Abstracts: Predicting the risk of hospital admission in older persons - validation of a brief self-administered questionnaire in three European countries
Abstracts: Predictive factors of in-hospital mortality in older patients admitted to a medical intensive care unit. Home hospitalization service for acute uncomplicated first ischemic stroke in elderly patients: a randomized trial
Abstracts: Predictive validity of measures of comorbidity in older community dwellers: the insufficienza cardiaca negli anziani residenti a dicomano study
Abstracts: Predictive value of nonspecific symptoms for acute illness in nursing home residents. A cost -benefit analysis of external hip protectors in the nursing home setting
Abstracts: Predictors for functional declines among nondisabled older Japanese living in a community during a 3-year follow-up
Abstracts: Predictors of adherence to the use of hip protectors in nursing home residents. The effect of changing practice on fall prevention in a rehabilitative hospital: the hospital injury prevention study
Abstracts: Predictors of adherence to the use of hip protectors in nursing home residents. part 2 Footwear style and risk of falls in older adults
Abstracts: Predictors of behavioral disturbance in Alzheimer's disease. DNA repair and Alzheimer's disease
Abstracts: Predictors of functional recovery one year following hospital discharge for hip fracture: a prospective study
Abstracts: Predictors of mortality in patients with bacteremia: the importance of functional status. Persistent mobility deficit in the absence of deficits in activities of daily living: a risk factor for mortality
Abstracts: Predictors of nursing home placement in African Americans with dementia. Unmet care needs and key outcomes in Dementia
Abstracts: Predictors of observed sleep/wakefulness in residents in long-term care. A preliminary study comparing sleep restriction and relaxation treatments for insomnia in older adults
Abstracts: Predictors of planned retirement age: an application of Beehr's model. They planned well - except for health crises
Abstracts: Predictors of varying levels of nonadherence to mammography screening in older women. Disciplinary split: a threat to geriatrics interdisciplinary team training
Abstracts: Preliminary report from the Kansas Hartford Geriatrics Project: a model of community university collaboration in geriatric medicine faculty development
Abstracts: Preparing Canadian physicians for health care of older adults. Anabolic agents to treat osteoporosis in older people: is there still place for fluoride?
Abstracts: Prescribing exercise intensity for older women. Effects of exercise training added to ongoing hormone replacement therapy on bone mineral density in frail elderly women
Abstracts: Pressure ulcer products and devices: are they safe, much less effective? The search to improve safe vehicular operation among older drivers: are we reaching our destination?
Abstracts: Pressure ulcer products and devices: are they safe, much less effective? part 2 Managed care as a vehicle for delivering more effective chronic care for older persons
Abstracts: Pressure ulcers among home care patients: Whose responsibility are they? Pharmacotherapy of lower limb diabetic ulcers
Abstracts: Prevalence and correlates of perceived societal racism in older African-American adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus
Abstracts: Prevalence and correlates of recognized depression in U.S. nursing homes. A model for management of delirious postacute care patients
Abstracts: Prevalence and outcome of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus colonization in two nursing centers in Georgia
Abstracts: Prevalence and risks of dementia in the Japanese population: RERF's Adult Health Study Hiroshima subjects. Association between dementia and midlife risk factors: the radiation effects research foundation Adult Health Study
Abstracts: Prevalence, effectiveness, and predictors of planning the place of death among older persons followed in community-based long term care
Abstracts: Prevalence, incidence, and risk factors associated with hip fractures in community-dwelling older Mexican Americans: results of the Hispanic EPESE study
Abstracts: Prevalence of antidepressant use among older people: population-based observations. Variation in estimates of urinary incontinence prevalence in the community: effects of differences in definition, population characteristics, and study type
Abstracts: Prevalence of appropriate and problematic antiepileptic combination therapy in older people in the nursing home
Abstracts: Prevalence of combined fecal and urinary incontinence: a community-based study. Large-artery stiffness contributes to the greater prevalence of systolic hypertension in elderly women
Abstracts: Prevalence of coronary artery disease, atherothrombotic brain infarction, and peripheral arterial disease: associated risk factors in older Hispanics in an academic hospital-based geriatrics practice
Abstracts: Prevalence of dementia in older Latinos: the influence of type 2 diabetes mellitus, stroke and genetic factors
Abstracts: Prevalence of significant knee pain among older Americans: results from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey
Abstracts: Prevalence of small bowel bacterial overgrowth and its association with nutrition intake in nonhospitalized older adults
Abstracts: Prevalence rates of hearing impairment and comorbid conditions in older people: The Veneto Study. A drink to healthy aging: the association between older women's use of alcohol and their health-related quality of life
Abstracts: Prevalent vertebral deformities predict mortality and hospitalizatlon 1n older women with low bone mass. Intentional and unintentional weight loss increase bone loss and hip fracture risk in older women
Abstracts: Preventing disability in older people with chronic disease: what is a doctor to do? Health care for older persons: a country profile - Lebanon
Abstracts: Preventing falls in community-dwelling frail older people using a home intervention team (HIT): results from the randomized falls-HIT trial
Abstracts: Primary cardiovascular events and serum lipid levels in elderly Japanese with hypercholesterolemia undergoing 6-year simvastatin treatment: A
Abstracts: Primary care of long-stay nursing home residents: approaches of three health maintenance organizations. Biographical sketch of David H. Soloman, MD
Abstracts: Pritikin on trial. Our twice-a-week fitness-at-home exercise plan. Fighting the aging process - there's good news!
Abstracts: Procedures for identifying evidence-based psychological treatments for older adults. Introduction to the special section on evidence-based psychological treatment for older adults
Abstracts: Prognostic factors in very old demented adults: a seven-year follow-up from a population-based survey in Stockholm
Abstracts: Prognostic value of dipyridamole thallium imaging after acute myocardial infarction in older patients. Integration of geriatrics into cardiology fellowship training programs: A joint position paper form the American Geriatrics Society and te Society of Geriatric Cardiology
Abstracts: Progressive trends in the prevalence of benzodiazepine prescribing in older people in Ontario, Canada. Drug-induced lithium toxicity in the elderly: a population-based study
Abstracts: Progress or doom? Strategic parenting: I got a second chance. Rosy dreams vs. harsh truths: do your values change after 50?
Abstracts: Projections of aging: impact of generational differences and the aging process on perceptions of adults. Training effects on dual-task performance: Are there age-related differences in plasticity of attention control?
Abstracts: Prompting primary providers to increase community exercise referrals for older adults: a randomized trial. Determinants of lower-body muscle power in early postmenopausal women
Abstracts: Propoxyphene use by community-dwelling and institutionalized elderly Medicare beneficiaries. National estimates of medication use in nursing homes: findings from the 1997 Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey and the 1996 Medical Expenditure Survey
Abstracts: Prospective association between low and high total and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol and coronary heart disease in elderly men
Abstracts: Prospective payment for nursing homes increased therapy provision without improving community discharge rates
Abstracts: Protecting long-term care patients from antibiotic resistant infections: ethics, cost-effectiveness, and reimbursement issues
Abstracts: Protect your ears for years and years. How to get the calcium you need. All about ears
Abstracts: Protein carbonyl accumulation in aging dauer formation-defective (daf) mutants of Caenorhabditis elegans. Exercise reduces age-dependent decrease in platelet protein kinase C activity and translocation
Abstracts: Providing for heirs: are annuities the best way? Timing IRA withdrawals can cut your taxes. Is selling your home a smart retirement-savings strategy?
Abstracts: Providing nutrition supplements to institutionalized seniors with probable AlzheimerEs disease is least beneficial to those with low body weight status
Abstracts: Psychiatric diagnosis and intervention in older and younger patients in a primary care clinic: effect of a screening and diagnostic instrument
Abstracts: Psychological adjustment variables as predictors of mortality among nursing home residents. Psychological impact of illness downturns: a comparison of new and chronic conditions
Abstracts: Psychometric comparisons of the timed up and go, one-leg stand, functional reach, and tinetti balance measures in community-dwelling older people
Abstracts: Psychometric properties of the 15-item geriatric depression scale in functionally impaired, cognitively intact, community-dwelling elderly primary care patients
Abstracts: Qualifying change: a method for defining clinically meaningful outcomes for change score computation. Assessment of agitation in Alzheimer's disease: The Agitated Behavior in Dementia Scale
Abstracts: Quality of life impact of urge incontinence in older persons: a new measure and conceptual structure. Urinary incontinence management: new questions from old assumptions
Abstracts: Quality of life of older adults with urinary incontinence. Iatrogenic benzodiazepine withdrawal delirium in hospitalized older patients
Abstracts: Quality of life of older adults with urinary incontinence. The driving habits of adults aged 60 years and older
Abstracts: Quality of life while dying: a qualitative study of terminally ill older men. Underlying mechanisms of impaired visceral pain perception in older people
Abstracts: Race-related differences among elderly urban residents: a cohort study, 1975-1984. New cohorts of urban elders: are they in trouble?
Abstracts: Racial differences in family support and formal service utilization among older persons: a nonrecursive model
Abstracts: Randomized, controlled trial of a nonphramcalogical intervention to improve abnormal sleep/wake patterns in nursing home residents
Abstracts: Rapid emergency department intervention for older people reduces risk of functional decline: results of a multicenter randomized trial
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