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Abstracts: A randomized trial of a combined physical activty and environmental intervention in nursing home residents: Do sleep and agitation improve?
Abstracts: A randomized trial of olfactory stimulation using black pepper oil in older people with swallowing dysfunction
Abstracts: A randomized trial of weighted vest use in ambulatory older adults: strength, performance, and quality of life outcomes
Abstracts: A ray of hope for older Nigerians. Relationship between self assessed masticatory disability and 9-year mortality in a cohort of community-residing elderly people
Abstracts: Are aggressive treatment strategies less cost-effective for older patients? The case of ventilator support and aggressive care for patients with acute respiratory failure
Abstracts: Are nursing homes appropriate for older adults with severe mental illness? Conflicting consumer and clinician views and implications for the Olmstead decision
Abstracts: Are nursing homes appropriate for older adults with severe mental illness? Conflicting consumer and clinician views and implications for the Olmstead decision. part 2
Abstracts: Are older hazardous and harmful drinkers less likely to participate in health-related behaviors and practices as compared with nonhazardous drinkers
Abstracts: Are we too focused on fat? How healthy is your blood? Healthy news
Abstracts: Are you buying a business ... or a disaster? Is your financial IQ good enough? Investment choices for tough times
Abstracts: Are you drinking too much? Body language: how to tell what others are really thinking. Forgiveness may be good for your health
Abstracts: Are you getting your minerals? Living well with diabetes. Smart care for your hair
Abstracts: Are you getting your minerals? What's causing that cough? Once you find the reason, the cure can't be far behind
Abstracts: Are you taking too much risk with your money? Finding the perfect retirement dog. For many retirees, "rent" isn't just a Broadway show
Abstracts: Arginine vasopressin levels in nursing home residents with nighttime urinary incontinence. Effect of blood pressure and diabetes mellitus on cognitive and physical functions in older adults: a longitudinal analysis of the advanced cognitive training for independent and vital elderly cohort
Abstracts: A role for stem cell biology in the physiological and pathological aspects of aging. Telomere biology in aging and Cancer
Abstracts: Arterial stiffness is associated with orthostatic hypertension in elderly subjects with history of falls. Reproducibility of the jumping mechanography as a test of mechanical power output in physically competent adult and elderly subjects
Abstracts: Asian ageing: contexts of change. The shifting sands of time: Results from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing on multiple transitions in later life
Abstracts: Ask about daytime sleepiness. Longitudinal analysis of the relationship between regular eye examinations and changes in visual and functional status
Abstracts: A specialized home care intervention improves survival among older post-surgical cancer patients. Pressure ulcers among patients admitted to home care
Abstracts: Assessing life expectancies of older nursing home residents. Effect of tamoxifen on bone fractures in older nursing home residents
Abstracts: Assessing the impact of neuropsychiatric symptoms in Alzheimer's disease: the Neuropsychiatric Inventory Caregiver Distress Scale
Abstracts: Assessment of adherence to renal dosing guidelines in long-term care facilities. Malnutrition in institutionalized seniors: the iatrogenic component
Abstracts: Assessment of individual risk of death using self-report data: an artificial neural network compared with a frailty index
Abstracts: Assessment of insulin sensitivity in older adults using the hyperglycemic clamp technique. Getting meaningful informed consent from older adults: a structured literature review of empirical research
Abstracts: Assessment of pain in cognitively impaired older adults: a comparison of pain assessment tools and their use by nonprofessional caregivers
Abstracts: Assisted living facilities: optimizing outcomes. The responsible conduct of research: AGS ethics and research committees
Abstracts: Association between acculturation and structural assimilation and mini-mental state examination - assessed cognitive impairment in older Mexican Americans: findings from the San Antonio longitudinal study of aging
Abstracts: Association between bone mineral density and cognitive decline in older women. ERT and cognitive decline
Abstracts: Association between functional status and use and effectiveness of beta-blocker prophylaxis in elderly survivors of acute myocardial infarction
Abstracts: Association between medication supplies and healthcare costs in older adults from an urban healthcare system. Outcomes of percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy among older adults in a community setting
Abstracts: Association between Parkinson's disease and low bone density and falls in older men: The osteoporotic fractures in men study
Abstracts: Association between subject functional status, seat height, and movement strategy in sit-to-stand performance
Abstracts: Association of dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate, body composition, and physical fitness in independent community-dwelling older men and women
Abstracts: Association of electrocardiographic left ventricular hypertrophy with the incidence of new congestive heart failure
Abstracts: Associations between early experiences with parents and well-being in old age. In the steps of giants: the early geriatrics texts
Abstracts: Associations of demographic, functional, and behavioral characteristics with activity-related fear of falling among older adults transitioning to frailty
Abstracts: Associations of symptoms of sleep apnea with cardiovascular disease, cognitive impairment, and mortality among older Japanese-American men
Abstracts: Assuring quality in nursing home care. Quality of life in prostrate cancer patients taking androgen deprivation therapy
Abstracts: A statement of principles: Toward improved care of older patients in surgical and medical specialties. The new frontier: increasing geriatrics expertise in surgical and medical specialties
Abstracts: A survival guide for summer travel. Create a room for living. A mother's best lesson
Abstracts: A systemic-wholistic approach to differential aging: Longitudinal findings from the Berlin Aging Study. No aging bias favoring memory for positive material: Evidence from a heterogeneity-homogeneity list paradigm using emotionally toned words
Abstracts: A test of public reactions to alleged elder abuse. Elder abuse: expert and public perspectives on its meaning
Abstracts: Atherosclerosis is associated with delirium after coronary artery bypass graft surgery. Nursing home capabilities and decisions to hospitalize: a survey of medical directors and directors of nursing
Abstracts: A traffic sign recognition test can discriminate between older drivers who have and have not had a motor vehicle crash
Abstracts: Atrial natriuretic peptide levels in geriatric patients with nocturia and nursing home residents with nighttime incontinence
Abstracts: Attack of the killer fees. You can still get rich. Stock market got you down? Here's what to do now
Abstracts: Attempted decomposition of age-related influences on two tests of reasoning. Item analyses of age relations on reasoning tests
Abstracts: Attentional capture and aging: Implications for visual search performance and oculomotor control. Age-related changes in the control of attention in depth
Abstracts: Attention, frailty, and falls: the effect of a manual task on basic mobility. Fall and injury prevention in residential care - effects in residents with higher and lower levels of cognition
Abstracts: Attention, women! Old ... alone ... and poor - it could happen to you. Why hair is no longer an issue
Abstracts: Attitudes toward older adults reported by young adults: variation based on attitudinal task and attribute categories
Abstracts: A typology of social climates in group residential facilities for older people. Centrality of the grandfather role among older rural black and white men
Abstracts: A user's guide to enhancing geriatrics in an undergraduate medical school curriculum: the ten-step model to winning the "geriatric game"
Abstracts: A U-shaped association between home systolic blood pressure and four-year mortality in community-dwelling older men
Abstracts: Author's response to commentary on "Revisiting the role of fat mass in the life extension induced by caloric restriction."
Abstracts: Autobiographical memory, autonoetic consciousness and self-perspective in aging. Rising verbal intelligence scores: implications for research and clinical practice
Abstracts: Autobiographical memory in normal aging and primary degenerative dementia (dementia of Alzheimer type). Effects of late-onset depression and recovery on autobiographical memory
Abstracts: Autobiographical remembering and hypermnesia: a comparison of older and younger adults. Things that go bump in your life: explaining the reminiscence bump in autobiographical memory
Abstracts: Automatic and effortful memory processes in elderly persons with organic brain pathology. Age differences in memory for concrete and abstract pictures
Abstracts: A validation of a mailed health survey for screening of dementia of the Alzheimer's type. Clock drawing: analysis in a retirement community
Abstracts: A view of the aging-disease relationship from age 85. Basal natural killer cell activity of young versus elderly humans
Abstracts: Avoiding withdrawal pains. Does being an executor have to give you an excedrin headache? Do your estate planning now: avoid future conflict
Abstracts: A world of great deals. Insurance deals you'll want to celebrate. Deals that really take off
Abstracts: Back to basics: diuretics as first-line agents in the treatment of hypertension. Assessment of geriatric information on the drug label for commonly prescribed drugs in older people
Abstracts: Bagging a real deal on your next vacation. Game plan for enjoying cruises more than ever. Vacation shopping guide
Abstracts: Balancing act: covering you parents' needs - and your retirement. In late marriages ... prenuptial agreements are imperative
Abstracts: Banish bad heir days: ways to avoid fights over family wills. Cancer survivors tell how
Abstracts: Bargain prices for luxury goods - a guide to America's outlet malls. Listen up, America: what we believe
Abstracts: Barriers to and benefits of leisure time physical activity in the elderly: differences across cultures. Dementia, race, and education: a cautionary note for clinicians and researchers
Abstracts: Barriers to effective communication in skilled nursing facilities: differences in perception between nurses and physicians
Abstracts: Barriers to obtaining consent in dementia research: implications for surrogate decision-making. The intersection between geriatrics and palliative care: A call for a new research agenda
Abstracts: Basic forms of cognitive plasticity extended into the oldest-old: Retest learning, age, and cognitive functioning
Abstracts: Bathing disability in community-living older persons: Common, consequential, and complex. Resilience of community-dwelling older persons
Abstracts: B&Bs: beyond the basics. A day with the grandkids. American beauties
Abstracts: Beating the crowds (and high prices) by going off-season. Super savings for solo travelers. Home away from home
Abstracts: Beating those aches & pains. When to worry about dizziness. Mind over illness
Abstracts: Behavioral and mood effects of Snoezelen integrated into 24-hour dementia care. Health care for older persons, a country profile: the Netherlands
Abstracts: Benign prostatic hyperplasia: diagnosis and treatment. Survival after percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy among older residents of Quebec
Abstracts: Best B&B breakfasts; four innkeepers share their most tempting specialties. Old friends, best friends
Abstracts: Be sure you've got a will and durable power of attorney. Balancing act: covering you parents' needs - and your retirement
Abstracts: Better sex? Forget those younger women!: 50-plus women speak out. Learning the new intimacy
Abstracts: Beware the phone frauds. Preying on your kindness. Investment scams: how to spot and foil them
Abstracts: Bilingualism, aging, and cognitive control: Evidence from the Simon task. The effects of aging and divided attention on memory for item and associative information
Abstracts: Bingo! whether it's games or trouble, the greenpoint girls have stuck together. The bottle of scotch that became Hildie Leonard's turning point
Abstracts: Binocular detection of masked patterns in young and old observers. How aging affects the reading of words in noisy backgrounds
Abstracts: Binocular vision in older people with adventitious visual impairment: sometimes one eye is better than two. Chiropractic care for patients aged 55 years and older: report from a practice-based research program
Abstracts: Biomarkers of aging: Do we know what to look for? Aging effects on heart rate variation. Oxygen-dependent perturbation of life span and aging rate in the nematode
Abstracts: Biomarkers of aging: Do we know what to look for? Gastrointestinal proliferation and aging. Programmed cell death: new thoughts and relevance to aging
Abstracts: Black and white differences in cognitive function test scores: What explains the difference? Prevalence and correlates of anxiety symptoms in well-functioning older adults: findings from the Health Aging and Body Composition Study
Abstracts: Blood pressure and mortality risk in older people: comparison between African Americans and Whites. Impact of depressive symptoms on hospitalization risk in community-dwelling older persons
Abstracts: Blood pressure, pulse, and neurohormonal responses to nitroprusside-induced hypotension in normotensive aging men
Abstracts: Blood pressure, pulse, and neurohormonal responses to nitroprusside-induced hypotension in normotensive aging men. part 2
Abstracts: Blood transfusion administration in seriously Ill patients: an evaluation of SUPPORT data. Accuracy of medical records in hip fracture
Abstracts: Bob Gibson still might throw at your head. The 90th-birthday party. The man who would be pampered (and slimmer)
Abstracts: Body aging? You don't have to give in! How to manage your moods. Lighten up; new insights into mind/body medicine are convincing even scientific skeptics that too much stress can affect your physical well-being
Abstracts: Body awareness and medical care utilization among older adults in an HMO. Use of health services in later life: the influence of health beliefs
Abstracts: Body fat distribution in healthy young and older men. Abnormal arginine vasopressin response to cigarette smoking and metoclopramide (but not to insulin-induced hypoglycemia) in elderly subjects
Abstracts: Body fat distribution in healthy young and older men. Can an index of aging be constructed for evaluating treatments to retard aging rates? A 2,462-person study
Abstracts: Body mass index and mortality among older people living in the community. Impact of a new assessment system, the MDS-HC, on function and hospitalization of homebound older people: a controlled clinical trial
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