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Abstracts: Bone up! Make the most of your memory. Lunch for grown-ups
Abstracts: Break the rules! Prune in summer. The old shoe that'll make a rose grow. Perennial bloomer
Abstracts: Breakthroughs in aging research: Scientific progress and social implications an introduction. Extraordinary longevity : individual and societal issues
Abstracts: Breast cancer screening in older women: ethical issues. Breast cancer screening in older women: the family practice perspective
Abstracts: Breast cancer screening in older women: law and patient rights. Physical examination of the breasts in screening for breast cancer
Abstracts: Breast cancer screening in older women: the family practice perspective. Older women's participation in breast screening
Abstracts: Breast cancer screening in women aged 80 and older: results from a National survey. The last six months of life for patients with congestive heart failure
Abstracts: Breast cancer treatment in older women: impact of the patient-physician interaction. Physicians' assessments of adjuvant tamoxifen's effectiveness in older patients with primary breast cancer
Abstracts: Bridging the workforce gap for our aging society: how to increase and improve knowledge and training. Report of an expert panel
Abstracts: Bright deals, big cities. Big savings in smaller cities. Get away for a winter weekend
Abstracts: Bright ideas for eye-friendly lighting. How to pick a Medigap policy. The ABC's of Medigap insurance
Abstracts: Building academic geriatric capacity: an evaluation of the John A. Hartford foundation centers of excellence initiative
Abstracts: Bumped by an airline? It can be rewarding. If you want the romance of travel ... go by train on some of these enchanting excursions
Abstracts: Burden among White and Black caregivers to elderly adults. Advancing caregiver research: weighing efficacy and feasibility of interventions
Abstracts: ... but does it stick? evaluating the durability of improved knowledge following an undergraduate experimental geriatrics learning session
Abstracts: Buy without bucks through a barter club. Getting the most time from the time of your life. Decluttering made (almost) easy
Abstracts: Calling all grandparents. The long march. Diary of supergran
Abstracts: Caloric restriction and caloric restriction mimetics: Current status and promise for the future. Calorie restriction in primates: Will it work and how will we know?
Abstracts: Can an index of aging be constructed for evaluating treatments to retard aging rates? A 2,462-person study. Aging as a modulator of respiratory sinus arrhythmia
Abstracts: Can a short period of micronutrient supplementation in older institutionalized people improve response to influenza vaccine? A randomized, controlled trial
Abstracts: Cancer mortality, aging, and patterns of comorbidity in the United States: 1968 to 1986. Demographics (1950-1987) of breast cancer in birth cohorts of older women
Abstracts: Can practice overcome age-related differences in the psychological refractory period effect? Success and failure at dual-task coordination by younger and older adults
Abstracts: Can the control of bodily orientation be significantly improved in a group of older adults with a history of falls?
Abstracts: Can we afford comprehensive, supportive care for the very old? You can afford your dream house, boat or car: three case studies
Abstracts: Can you trust your medical lab test results? What can go wrong - and what you should do to protect your well-being
Abstracts: Capitated risk-bearing managed care systems could improve end-of-life care. After aging..
Abstracts: Capturing and clustering women's judgement policies: the case of hormonal therapy for menopause. Hormone replacement therapy in octogenarian women: good or bad?
Abstracts: Cardiovascular aging research: the next horizon. Caring for the whole person: Integrated health care for older adults with severe mental illness and medical comorbidity
Abstracts: Cardiovascular disease risk factors among older Black, Mexican-American, and White women and men: an analysis of NHANES III, 1988-1994
Abstracts: Cardiovascular response during postural change in the elderly. Postural sway characteristics of the elderly under normal and altered visual and support surface conditions
Abstracts: Caregivers' appraisals of efficacy in coping with dementia. Response biases as a confound to expressed burden among spousal caregivers of suspected dementia patients
Abstracts: Caregivers need care too. Caregiving fallout: your own marriage. Yearn to teach? Here's how to make the grade
Abstracts: Caregivers' utilization of health services: results from the Medicare Alzheimer's Disease Demonstration, Illinois site
Abstracts: Caregivers: you're not alone. Today's best resources for caregivers. Getting the pros on you side
Abstracts: Care of the living, care of the dying: reconceptualizing nursing home care. Alzheimer's disease and managed care: how much will it cost?
Abstracts: Caring for older Americans: The future of geriatric medicine. Religion, spirituality, and health in medically ill hospitalized older patients
Abstracts: Caring for vulnerable older adults in urban academic medical centers in a managed care environment. Medicare Prescription Drug Statement of Principles
Abstracts: Case mix controlled service use and expenditures in the social health maintenance organization demonstration. Commentary on "Mortality oscillations induced by periodic starvation alter sex-mortality differentials in Mediterranean fruit flies."(response to article by Carey et al, October, 1999 issue, page B424)
Abstracts: Casino day-trippers bet on fun, not fortune. Certificates create bridges to new careers. Ah, go change a few lightbulbs
Abstracts: Casino day-trippers bet on fun, not fortune. The best way to see a city. Best B&B breakfasts; four innkeepers share their most tempting specialties
Abstracts: Cataract surgery. At your age... the physical limitations you should - and shouldn't - accept. Surgery: reminiscing eases the stress
Abstracts: Catching up in the retirement race. The best time to retire. Plan your retirement.com
Abstracts: Category norms as a function of culture and age: Comparisons of item responses to 105 categories by American and Chinese Adults
Abstracts: Cause of death in older patients with anatomo-pathological evidence of chronic bronchitis or emphysema: a case-control study based on autopsy findings
Abstracts: Cefotaxime-resistant bacteria colonizing older people admitted to an acute care hospital. The vulnerability of middle-aged and elderly patients to Hepatitis C virus infection in a high-prevalence hospital-based hemodialysis setting
Abstracts: Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) as a screening instrument for depression among community-residing older adults
Abstracts: Change in depressive symptoms among daughter caregivers: An 18-month longitudinal study. Evidence-based psychological treatments for distress in family caregivers of older adults
Abstracts: Change in productive activity in late adulthood: MacArthur studies of successful aging. Effects of parental divorce and memories of family problems on relationships between adult children and their parents
Abstracts: Change in strategy: battle of the sexes? Not in my house! Donald Duck pajamas coming up? Catching catalog fever
Abstracts: Changes in blood pressure and risk factors for cardiovascular disease among older Mexican-Americans from 1982-1984 to 1993-1994
Abstracts: Changes in health status subsequent to nursing home closure. Experiences of older informal caregivers to people with HIV/ AIDS in Lome, Togo
Abstracts: Changes in sexual function in middle-aged and older men: longitudinal data from the Massachusetts male aging study
Abstracts: Changes in social support as mediators of the impact of a psychosocial intervention for spouse caregivers of persons with Alzheimer's disease
Abstracts: Characteristics of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome in older adults. Recurrent paraparesis in an octogenarian
Abstracts: Characteristics of associative learning in younger and older adults: evidence from an episodic priming paradigm
Abstracts: Characteristics of nondisabled older persons who perform poorly in objective tests of lower extremity function
Abstracts: Chemosensory impairment and appetite: commentary on "Impaired sensory functioning in elders: the relation with its potential determinants and nutritional intake"
Abstracts: Chiropractic care for patients aged 55 years and older: report from a practice-based research program. Predicting functional status outcomes in hospitalized patients aged 80 years and older
Abstracts: Choice Champions. Choice champions
Abstracts: Choice Champions. part 2
Abstracts: Choice Champions: youth outreach. Choice Champions: community action. Choice champions
Abstracts: Choice enhances performance in non-insulin dependent diabetics and controls. Nonenzymatic glycosylation of protein does not increase with age in normal human lenses
Abstracts: Cholesterol screening in 5,719 self-referred elderly subjects. Nutrition and serum cholesterol levels among elderly men and women (Dutch nutrition surveillance system)
Abstracts: Chronic benzodiazepine use in nursing homes: effects of federal guidelines, resident mix, and nurse staffing. American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association Chronic Heart Failure Evaluation and Management Guidelines: relevance to the geriatric practice
Abstracts: Chronic care clinics: a randomized controlled trial of a new model of primary care for frail older adults. Laparoscopic surgery in older adults
Abstracts: Chronic care clinics: Why don't they work? Factors contributing to dehydration in nursing homes: inadequate staffing and lack of professional supervision
Abstracts: Chronomes: time structures within the physiological range identify early disease risk aiming at primary prevention
Abstracts: Circadian heart rate rhythms in Japanese centenarians. What heterogeneity among centenarians can teach us about genetics, aging, and longevity
Abstracts: Claims data studies of sedative-hypnotics and hip fractures in older people: exploring residual confounding using survey information
Abstracts: Classical conditioning in patients with Alzheimer's disease: a multiday study. Possible selves of individuals with Alzheimer's disease
Abstracts: Clinical, epidemiological, and policy implications of minimum data set validity. Geographic variation in hospice use prior to death
Abstracts: Clinical global impression of change in physical frailty: development of a measure based on clinical judgment
Abstracts: Clinically relevant levels of depressive symptoms in community-dwelling middle-aged African Americans. Guar gum reduces postprandial hypotension in older people
Abstracts: Clinical profile of delirium in older patients. Delirium before and after operation for femoral neck fracture
Abstracts: Clinical spectrum of pulmonary tuberculosis in older patients: comparison with younger patients. Post-1980 regional migration patterns of the U.S. elderly population
Abstracts: Clinico-neuropathological correlation of Alzheimer's disease in a community-based case series. Alzheimer's disease symptom severity in blacks and whites
Abstracts: Clock drawing test in very mild Alzheimer's disease. Nutritional formula improved immune profiles of seniors living in nursing homes
Abstracts: Closure, fair procedures, and setting limits within managed care organizations. When the benefit is in doubt, who decides?
Abstracts: Cognitive ability, expertise and age differences in following air-traffic control instructions. Adult's age related differences in adaptivity of strategy choices: evidence from computational estimation
Abstracts: Cognitive and mobility profile of Older social dancers. Ethnic differences in expectations for aging among older adults
Abstracts: Cognitive correlates of mortality: evidence from a population-based sample of very old adults. Termonal decline and cognitive performance in very old age: does cause of death matter?
Abstracts: Cognitive decline in high-functioning older persons is associated with an increased risk of hospitalization. Identification of risk for high hospital use: cost comparisons of four strategies and performance across subgroups
Abstracts: Cognitive deficits and the course of major depression in a cohort of middle-aged and older community-dwelling adults
Abstracts: Cognitive deterioration in Alzheimer's disease: behavioral and health factors. Effect of vascular lesions on cognition in AlzheimerEs diseases: a community-based study
Abstracts: Cognitive mediation of adult age differences in language performance. Perceptions of an old female eyewitness: is the older eyewitness believable?
Abstracts: Cognitive models of physicians' legal standard and personal judgments of competency in patients with Alzheimer's disease
Abstracts: Cognitive status, muscle strength, and subsequent disability in older mexican americans. Frailty in older mexican americans
Abstracts: College towns for grown-ups. The best free financial help. Should you invest online?
Abstracts: Combination therapy for early Alzheimer's disease: what are we waiting for? Current status of metals as therapeutic targets in Alzheimer's disease
Abstracts: Comfort Inns and Suites presents choice champions. Choice Champions. Comfort Inns and Suites presents Choice Champions
Abstracts: Commemorating the 50th anniversary of JAGS: the aging syndrome. Selected as the best paper in JAGS in the 1970s Mission of the National Institute on Aging
Abstracts: Commentaries on 'Preaching to the unconverted: educating physicians about elder abuse.'(reframing elder abuse as a medical problem)
Abstracts: Commentary: aging, differentiation-dependent gene expression, and fat cell function. Commentary on "Left ventricular response to beta-adrenergic stimulation in aging rats": the aging process of the heart
Abstracts: Commentary. Author's response to commentary. Ethanol metabolism and aging: the role of "first pass metabolism" and gastric alcohol dehydrogenase activity
Abstracts: Commentary on "Application of Exogenously Regulatable Promoter Systems to Transgenic Models for the Study of Aging."
Abstracts: Commentary on "Long-term Calorie Restriction Reduces Energy Expenditure in Aging Monkeys.". Commentary on "Age-Dependent Increase in Infarct Volume Following Photochemically Induced Cerebral Infarction: Putative Role of Astroglia."
Abstracts: Commentary on "Revisiting the role of fat mass in the life extension induced by caloric restriction.". Dietary restriction retards onset but not progress of leukemia in male F344 rats
Abstracts: Commentary: survival of C. elegans in axenic culture. Authors' response to commentaries on "two-parameter logistic and Weibull equations provide better fits to survival data from isogenic populations of Caenorhabditis elegans in axenic culture than does the Gompertz model."
Abstracts: Communication and decision-making in seriously ill patients: findings of the SUPPORT project. The last 2 years of life: functional trajectories of frail older people
Abstracts: Community-acquired pneumonia in the intensive care unit: epidemiological and prognosis data in older people. Shoulder pain in older people
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