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Abstracts: Sharing a vacation house: tips for a great adventure. The singles advantage: you're free to change jobs, location, lifestyle
Abstracts: Sharing the musical experience of a lifetime. Tribute to Marsha Goodwin-Beck, RN-C, MA, MSN. The fountain of youth
Abstracts: Sharpen your memory. What your skin says. New help for headaches
Abstracts: Sharpen your senses. Winning against arthritis: new treatments - and new attitudes - are helping people overcome this common disease
Abstracts: Should you buy travel insurance? Do you need a safe-deposit box? Do you need long-term-care insurance?
Abstracts: Show me the way; these Web sites will help you map your next road trip, complete with turn-by-turn directions
Abstracts: Simple ideas to make your home festive for the holidays. Little things that count. Rooms for improvement
Abstracts: Site of death on the hospital versus nursing home of Medicare skilled nursing facility residents admitted under MedicareEs part a benefit
Abstracts: Six smart ways to boost your retirement income. Smart year-end moves. The smart way to buy municipal bonds
Abstracts: Sixteen-year longitudinal and time lag changes in memory and cognition in older adults. Longitudinal hierarchical linear models of the memory functioning questionnaire
Abstracts: Six-year change in affect optimization and affect complexity across the adult life span: a further examination
Abstracts: Skeletal muscle mass and muscle strength in relation to lower-extremity performance in older men and women. A classification tree for predicting recurrent falling in community-dwelling older persons
Abstracts: Ski resorts in the summer? Wonderful winery trips. Sounds of summer
Abstracts: Sleep disturbances in patients with mild-stage Alzheimer's disease. The immunohistochemical evidence of amyloid diffuse deposits as a pathological hallmark in Alzheimer's disease
Abstracts: Sleep problems as a risk factor for falls in a sample of community-dwelling adults aged 64-99 years. Benzodiazepines and the risk of falls in nursing home residents
Abstracts: Slowing of contractile properties in quail skeletal muscle with aging. No evidence for a general change in contractile responsiveness of the mesenteric artery with aging
Abstracts: Slowness and age: speed-accuracy mechanisms. Cognitive decline in old age: Separating retest effects from the effects of growing older
Abstracts: Social exchanges and subjective well-being among older Chinese: Does age make a difference? Social exchange and well-being: is giving better than receiving?
Abstracts: Social participation attenuates decline in perceptual speed in old and very old age. Age and experience influences on the complexity of social inferences
Abstracts: Social support networks and formal help seeking: differences between applicants to social services and a nonapplicant sample
Abstracts: Sociodemographic and health characteristics of older Chinese on admission to a nursing home: a cross-racial/ethnic study
Abstracts: Sociodemographic and health characteristics of older Chinese on admission to a nursing home: a cross-racial/ethnic study. part 2
Abstracts: Socioemotional selectivity in cancer patients. Generalized slowing in sinusoidal tracking by older adults. Correlates of subjective health in older adults: a meta-analysis
Abstracts: So I thought I wanted to be a chief. To what extent do geriatricians document the most bothersome symptoms of patients with advanced dementia?
Abstracts: Sounds, Words, Sentences: age-related changes across levels of language processing. Coping with deficits and losses in later life: from compensatory action to accommodation
Abstracts: Source of dietary carbohydrate affects life span of Fischer 344 rats independent of caloric restriction. Commentary on "Effects of food restriction on mechanical properties of the arterial system in adult and middle-aged rats."(study by Chang et al, October, 1999 issue, page B441)
Abstracts: Sources of covariation among Mini-Mental State Examination scores, education, and cognitive abilities. Long-term efficacy of fluid ability interventions with older adults
Abstracts: So your body and mind won't let you down: here's what you should know and do. For over 50s gym-dandy exercise plan; you'll look and feel better
Abstracts: Special care facility compared with traditional environments for dementia care: A longitudinal study of quality of life
Abstracts: Specific-and partial-source memory: Effects of aging. Memory for contextual details: Effects of emotion and aging
Abstracts: Speed of information processing as a mediator between age and free-recall performance. Adult age differences in the effects of goals on self-regulated sentence processing
Abstracts: Spoken word recognition in individuals with dementia of the Alzheimer's type: changes in talker normalization and lexical discrimination
Abstracts: Spousal similarity in subjective well-being: the cardiovascular health study. Perceptions and implications of received spousal care: evidence from the caregiver health effects study
Abstracts: Stability and accuracy of metamemory in adulthood and aging: a longitudinal analysis. Latent change models of adult cognition: are changes in processing speed and working memory associated with changes in episodic memory?
Abstracts: Stability and change of personality in old age and its relation to survival. Adult personality and psychomotor performance: cross-sectional and longitudinal analysis
Abstracts: Stair performance in people aged 75 and older. Risk factors for nosocomical pneumonia in a geriatric hospital: a control-case one-center study
Abstracts: Standardized quality-assessment system to evaluate pressure ulcer care in the nursing home. Pressure ulcers: using what we know to improve quality of care
Abstracts: Starting over: 'it was scary, but exciting.' (displaced homemaker's experience) Sleep better...starting tonight
Abstracts: Start your own business ... successfully. Start your own 'microbusiness.'(includes public relations tips) How to succeed in (your own) business ... for less than $5,000
Abstracts: State practice variations in the use of tube feeding for nursing home residents with severe cognitive impairments
Abstracts: Stay limber, longer. The hair you really want. Wet & wonderful workouts
Abstracts: Stereotyping of older adults: the role of target facial cues and perceiver characteristics. Cerebrovascular risk factors, activity limitations, and depressed mood in African American older adults
Abstracts: Stop yearning and start learning. An inviting new IRA. Start now and save on '99 taxes
Abstracts: Strain, social support, and mental health in rural elderly individuals. Effect of aerobic and resistance training on fractionated reaction time and speed of movement
Abstracts: Strain, social support, and mental health in rural elderly individuals. part 2 Functional reach: a new clinical measure of balance
Abstracts: Streamlining your life. Easing into retirement. The most (and least) taxing states
Abstracts: Strength and muscle quality in a well-functioning cohort of older adults: the health, aging and body composition study
Abstracts: Strength, balance, and the modifying effects of obesity and knee pain: results from the Observational Arthritis Study in Seniors (OASIS)
Abstracts: Strength, physical activity, and body mass index: relationship to performance-based measures and activities of daily living among older Japanese women in Hawaii
Abstracts: Stress and isolation from close ties in later life. Age differences in depressive symptom experiences. Paradigms in developmental health psychology - from theory to application: introduction to a special issue
Abstracts: Stressful events and life satisfaction among elderly men and women. Perceived health problems, formal/informal support, and life satisfaction among older adults
Abstracts: Stressful events and life satisfaction among elderly men and women. part 2 Acculturation and psychological distress in three groups of Hispanics
Abstracts: Stress of parent care: positive and negative effects of women's other roles. Emotional congruence in older couples coping with wives' osteoarthritis: exacerbating effects of pain behavior
Abstracts: Stress-related cognitive interference predicts cognitive function in old age. A diffusion model analysis of the effects of aging in the lexical-decision task
Abstracts: Strike up the music - and the memories. A turn for the best. The power of memories
Abstracts: Stroke prophylaxis in institutionalized elderly patients with atrial fibrillation. Functional and cognitive consequences of silent stroke discovered using brain magnetic resonance imaging in an elderly population
Abstracts: Stroke prophylaxis in institutionalized elderly patients with atrial fibrillation. part 2 Getting to yes
Abstracts: Studying individual aging in an inter-individual context: Typical paths of age-related, dementia-related and mortality-related cognitive development in old age
Abstracts: Subclinical hypothyroidism in a biethnic, urban community. Caring for the new uninsured: hospital charity care for older people without coverage
Abstracts: Subcortical vascular lesions predict functional recovery after rehabilitation in patients with L-dopa refractory parkinsonism
Abstracts: Subjective cognitive complaints and cognitive decline: consequence or predictor? The epidemiology of vascular aging study
Abstracts: Subjective memory complaints and objective memory impairment in the Vienna-Transdanube aging community. Underlying mechanisms of impaired visceral pain perception in older people
Abstracts: Subjective memory complaints and objective memory impairment in the Vienna-Transdanube aging community. part 2
Abstracts: Subjective memory complaints, psychological distress, and longitudinal change in objective memory performance
Abstracts: Subsystems contributing to the decline in ability to walk: bridging the gap between epidemiology and geriatric practice in the InCHIANTI study
Abstracts: Suddenly single? Don't splurge. Why family ties seem more important now. Pets are great... but not for me (yet)
Abstracts: Surfing for freebies. Great sites for great bites. Shopping on the Web
Abstracts: Surgical outcomes for patients aged 80 and older: morbidity and mortality from major noncardiac surgery. Breast cancer screening for older women in a primary care practice
Abstracts: Survey methods for seriously ill hospitalized adults: practical lessons from SUPPORT. Family satisfaction with end-of-life care in seriously ill hospitalized adults
Abstracts: Survival tips for the widowed and divorced. How to avoid... the seven deadly sins of living alone. The importance of having a confidant
Abstracts: Syntactic complexity and adults' running memory span. Aging, inhibitory processes, and negative priming. Age differences in retrieval consistency and response dominance
Abstracts: Synthetic somatostatin analog (Octreotide) suppresses daytime growth hormone secretion equivalently in young and older men: preserved pituitary responsiveness to somatostatin's inhibition in aging
Abstracts: Systems of care for older populations of the future. Restoring success where once was thought only failure lay: The viability of functional rehabilitation for people with cognitive impairment
Abstracts: Take a bike! Back to nature. Skiing without slopes
Abstracts: Take a class via computer. Tracing your roots on the Web. There's lots in store for cyber shoppers
Abstracts: Taking a computational approach to aging: the SPAN theory of working memory. The heritability of cognitive functioning in very old adults: evidence from Danish twins aged 75 years and older
Abstracts: Talking with your doctor: a guide for older people. The nature of self-directed learning in older rural adults
Abstracts: Taming your computer: how to make the new technology answer your needs. Our boomers-turning-50 happiness index; results of an exclusive poll reveal what this generation is thinking and doing
Abstracts: Task-specific resistance training to improve the ability of activities of daily living-impaired older adults to rise from a bed and from a chair
Abstracts: Tax advice that will save you money this year. Foods that could save your life. Handy advice on tipping
Abstracts: Temporal memory for remote events in healthy aging and dementia. Age-related differences in object- and location-based inhibition of return of attention
Abstracts: Temporal patterns of negative and positive behavior among nursing home residents with Alzheimer's disease. Person-specific paths of cognitive decline in Alzheimer's disease and their relation to age
Abstracts: Ten questions to ask before the movers arrive. Getting the right deal on fitness club memberships. Retire rich - here's how!
Abstracts: Ten questions to ask before the movers arrive. When bonds can pay off: how to make the right choices for your portfolio
Abstracts: Testing your health at home. The shots you need now. Those embarrassing questions
Abstracts: Tests of stepping as indicators of mobility, balance, and fall risk in balance-impaired older adults. Self-reported walking ability predicts functional mobility performance in frail older adults
Abstracts: Test your health IQ: a passing score can save your life. Eight great ways to stay sharp forever. Wait! You may not need that surgery
Abstracts: Thanksgiving to go: easy dishes to ship or bring with you. Savory soups, hot and cold. Simply super soups
Abstracts: Thanks, gramps, for bringing us together. Given your personality ... where shrinks would send you on vacation
Abstracts: Thanks, Janet, for your courage and humor. The romance of the rails. Bargains across the border; thanks to today's genereous exchange rate, Canada can be a traveler's dream come true
Abstracts: That was the year that was: an evidence-based clinical geriatrics update 1998-1999. That was the year that was: an evidence-based clinical geriatrics update 2002-03
Abstracts: The 20 best continuing care retirement communities. The 20 top retirement communities in the U.S.A. Living on $15,000
Abstracts: The 20 best retirement communities in America. America's top 20 retirement communities. The 20 best continuing care retirement communities
Abstracts: The 20 best retirement communities in America. The 20 top retirement communities in the U.S.A. The USA's 15 best continuing care retirement communities
Abstracts: The abridged Dutch Metamemory in Adulthood (MIA) questionnaire: structure and effects of age, sex, and education
Abstracts: The activities of daily vision scale: a useful tool to assess fall risk in older adults with vision impairment
Abstracts: The Activities-specific Balance Confidence (ABC) scale. Balance and gait performance in an urban and a rural population
Abstracts: The "Alzheimerization" of dementia research. Meaningful change and responsiveness in common physical performance measures in older adults
Abstracts: The art of creative meddling: a plan for sharing wisdom with loved ones. With you I am not alone
Abstracts: The arts: Choice Champions. Making another new choice
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