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Abstracts: Community-acquired pneumonia in the intensive care unit: epidemiological and prognosis data in older people. part 2
Abstracts: Community screening for visual impairment in older people. The use of oral anticoagulants (warfarin) in older people
Abstracts: Comparative impact of hearing and vision impairment on subsequent functioning. Underdiagnosis of airway obstruction in older people: be careful what you look for, you might find it
Abstracts: Comparison of brain natriuretic peptide and probrain natriuretic peptide in the diagnosis of cardiogenic pulmonary edema in patients aged 65 and older
Abstracts: Comparison of fracture, cardiovascular event, and breast cancer rates at 3 years in postmenopausal women with osteoporosis
Abstracts: Comparison of older people and patients with frontal lesions: evidence from word list learning. Visual cues and the handwriting of older adults: a kinematic analysis
Abstracts: Comparison of routine glove use and contact-isolation precautions to prevent transmission of multidrug-resistant bacteria in a long-term care facility
Abstracts: Comparison of two home care protocols for total joint replacement. Sex differences in the effect of heart rate on mortality in the elderly
Abstracts: Compliance with PASARR recommendations for Medicaid recipients in nursing homes. Assessment and treatment of nursing home residents with depression or behavioral symptoms associated with dementia: a review of the literature
Abstracts: Comprehensive geriatric assessment: mission not yet accomplished. Geriatric sleep apnea syndrome: a preliminary description
Abstracts: Conclusion. Emerging concepts in management of insomnia. Prevalence of perceived dysphonia in a geriatric population
Abstracts: Concordance of proxy-perceived change and measured change in multiple domains of function in older persons. Mortality and adverse health events in newly admitted nursing home residents with and without Dementia
Abstracts: Conflict and aggression as stressors in the work environment of nursing assistants: implications for institutional elder abuse
Abstracts: Conflicts of interest and accountability in managed care: the aging of medical ethics. Obligations and opportunities: the role of clinical societies in the ethics of managed care
Abstracts: Conscious and unconscious lexical retrieval blocking in younger and older adults. Auditory habituation in young and older adults: the verbal transformation effect
Abstracts: Consequences of men's retirement for the continuation of work-related personal relationships. Single older men in disadvantaged households: narratives of meaning around everyday life
Abstracts: Constraints on general slowing: a meta-analysis using hierarchical linear models with random coefficients. Why a superman cannot help a tsunami: activation of grammatical class influences resolution of young and older adults' tip-of-the-tongue states
Abstracts: Consumer-perceived value: the key to a successful business strategy in the healthcare marketplace. The war on health care fraud and abuse: peril for providers
Abstracts: Continued inhibitory capacity throughout adulthood: conceptual negative priming in younger and older adults. The roles of fatalism, self-confidence, and intellectual resources in the disablement process in older adults
Abstracts: Continuing diet trends in men: the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging (1961-1987). Diet restriction prevents aging-induced deficits in brain phosphoinositide metabolism
Abstracts: Contracts and the aging driver. Cementing pathways home: enhancing quality of life for people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Abstracts: Contrasting results between caregiver's report and direct assessment of activities of daily living in patients affected by mild and very mild dementia: the contribution of the caregiver's personal characteristics
Abstracts: Contribution of cognitive abilities to performance and improvement on a substitution coding task. Aging and counting speed: evidence for process-specific slowing
Abstracts: Converging evidence that visuospatial cognition is more age-sensitive than verbal cognition. Age differences in item manipulation span: The case of letter-number sequencing
Abstracts: Cooking up a great vacation. Good news for frequent fliers. The stay-put vacation
Abstracts: Cooking with herbs; herbs add flavor and fragrance to the plainest of dishes, turning them from bit-part actors to the stars of the culinary show
Abstracts: Coping strategies of people living in multigenerational households: effects on well-being. Enmeshed lives: adult children with developmental disabilities and their aging mothers
Abstracts: Coronary artery calcium: association with brain magnetic resonance imaging abnormalities and cognitive status
Abstracts: Cosmetic surgery: what it can do for you. Beauty aids: telling the good ones from the bad ones. Itchy skin
Abstracts: Costs of promoting independence. There is hope for the future: national survey results reveal that geriatric medicine fellows are well-educated in end-of-life care
Abstracts: Creative celebrating. A disrespectful daughter-in-law. An expert's advice on how to treat elders
Abstracts: Cross-sectional age differences in personality among Medicare patients aged 65 to 100. Aging and visual masking: sensory and attentional factors
Abstracts: Cruise for less. Adding up the extras on cruise ships. A traveler's strategy: Europe for less
Abstracts: Cruises with a twist. You can go home again. Seeing Europe by boat
Abstracts: Cure for winter? My dancing daffodils! Happy car trips? Follow these rules! From men who dress like babies to 'National Geographic' specials: A discriminating viewer's look at daytime tv
Abstracts: Current-events knowledge in adults: an investigation of age, intelligence, and nonability determinants. Age, ability, and the role of prior knowledge on the acquisition of new domain knowledge: Promising results in a real-world learning environment
Abstracts: Current status and future directions of Geriatric general surgery. Appropriateness of quality indicators for older patients with advanced dementia and poor prognosis
Abstracts: Current status and future directions of Geriatric general surgery. part 2 Prevention of weight loss in dimentia with comprehensive nutritional treatment
Abstracts: Curricular framework: core competencies in multicultural geriatric care. Ethnicity and dementia
Abstracts: Curriculum recommendations for resident training in geriatrics interdisciplinary team care. The evidence for excellent nursing
Abstracts: Daily pain that was excruciating at some time in the previous week: prevalence, characteristics, and outcomes in nursing home residents
Abstracts: Daily stressors and memory failures in a naturalistic setting: Findings from the VA normative aging study. Age differences in exposure and reactions to interpersonal tensions: A daily dairy study
Abstracts: Daytime sleepiness is associated with 3-year incident dementia and cognitive decline in older Japanese-American men
Abstracts: Dealing with negative social exchanges in later life: Coping responses, goals and effectiveness. Substitution and compensation in the social networks of older widowed women
Abstracts: Deals on campus digs. A tasty walk on the wild side. Rescuing plants from the past
Abstracts: Decision-making and adult protective services workers: identifying critical factors. A national study of involuntary protective services to adult protective services clients
Abstracts: Decision making and the principles of screening for breast cancer. Breast cancer screening in older women: an overview
Abstracts: Decisions for Hospice care in Patients with advanced Cancer. Physician confidence and interest in learning more about common geriatric topics: a needs assessment
Abstracts: Declare germ warfare this cold season. Staying healthy on the road or in the air. Tips for trips
Abstracts: Decreasing hospitalization rates for older home care patients with symptoms of depression. A model for managing delirious older inpatients
Abstracts: Decreasing use of percutaneous endoscopic gastronomy tube feeding for veterans with Dementia - racial difference remain
Abstracts: Delirium is independently associated with poor functional recovery after hip fracture. Reducing delirium after hip fracture: a randomized trial
Abstracts: Delirium: Still searching for risk factors and effective preventive measures. Closing the gap - provider and researcher responsibility
Abstracts: Delirium symptoms in post-acute care: prevalent, persistent, and associated with poor functional recovery. The protective effect of social engagement on mortality in long-term care
Abstracts: Dementia as a risk factor for falls and fall injuries among nursing home residents. Medical care for nursing home residents: differences by dementia status
Abstracts: Dementia: case ascertainment in a community survey. Minority use of community long-term care services: a comparative analysis
Abstracts: Dementia diagnostic guidelines: methodologies, results, and implementation costs. Neuroimaging in the dementia assessment: Is it necessary?
Abstracts: Dementia patients who live alone: research and clinical challenges. Advance directives and advancing age
Abstracts: Dementias that present with and without posterior cortical features: an important clinical distinction. The 'subsyndromal' syndromes of aging
Abstracts: Dental caries, periodontal disease, and cardiac arrhythmias in community-dwelling older persons aged 80 and older: is there a link?
Abstracts: Dependence in activities of daily living and cognitive impairment strongly predicted mortality in older urban residents in Brazil: a 2-year follow-up
Abstracts: Depressed albumin and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol: signposts along the final common pathway of frailty
Abstracts: Depression and disability associated with impaired vision: the MoVIES Project. Neuroticism predicts depression and disability in age-related macular degeneration
Abstracts: Depressive symptom experiences among older women: a comparison of alternative measurement approaches. The role of self-enhancing evaluations in a successful life transition
Abstracts: Depressive symptoms across older spouses and the moderating effect of marital closeness. Flashbulb memories and posttraumatic stress reactions across the life span: Age-related effects of the German occupation of Denmark during World War II
Abstracts: Depressive symptoms and risk of Alzheimer's disease in more highly educated older people. Elder abuse in te community: prevalence and consequences
Abstracts: Depressive symptoms as arisk factor for disabling back pain in community-dwelling older persons. Where is the vision for fall prevention?
Abstracts: Deriving a risk-adjustment model for pressure ulcer development using the minimum data set. Are we improving the quality of nursing home care: the case of pressure ulcers
Abstracts: Detecting balance deficits in frequent fallers using clinical and quantitative evaluation tools. Alfacalcidol reduces the number of fallers in a community-dwelling elderly population with a minimum calcium intake of more than 500 mg daily
Abstracts: Detection and management of cognitive impairment in primary care; the steel valley seniors survey. Pathology and pathways of Alzheimer's disease with an update on new developments in treatment
Abstracts: Detection and management of falls and instability in vulnerable elders by community physicians. Selecting target conditions for quality of care improvement in vulnerable older adults
Abstracts: Detection of delirium in the intensive care unit: comparison of Confusion Assessment Method for the Intensive Care Unit with Confusion Assessment Method ratings
Abstracts: Determinants of interpersonal support and self-direction in group residential facilities. A typology of social climates in group residential facilities for older people
Abstracts: Determinants of self-management strategies to reduce out-of-pocket prescription medication expense in homebound older people
Abstracts: Developing and testing training materials on elder abuse and neglect for nurse aides. Elder abuse and neglect in Poland
Abstracts: Developing and testing training materials on elder abuse and neglect for nurse aides. part 2 Elder abuse and neglect in residential settings: the need for inclusiveness in elder abuse research
Abstracts: Developing a stroke unit using the acute care for elders intervention and model of care. Geriatric Resources for Assessment and Care of Elders (GRACE): a new model of primary care for low-income seniors
Abstracts: Developmental regulation and after a developmental deadline: the sample case of "biological clock" for childbearing
Abstracts: Development and validation of a geriatric knowledge test for medical students. The effects of Megestrol Acetate suspension for elderly patients with reduced appetite after hospitalization: A phase II randomized clinical trial
Abstracts: Development and validation of a physical performace instrument for the functionally impaired elderly: the Physical Disability Index (PDI)
Abstracts: Development of a scale to predict decline in patients with mild Alzheimer's disease. How proxies make decisions about research for patients with Alzheimer's disease
Abstracts: Development of a test battery to identify older drivers at risk for self-reported adverse driving events. The relationship between number of medications and weight loss or impaired balance in older adults
Abstracts: Diabetes and dementia in long-term care. Critical review of resident assessment protocols. Galantamine maintains ability to perform activities of daily living in patients with Alzheimer's disease
Abstracts: Diagnosis and treatment odf depression in the elderly medicare population: predictors, disparities, and trends
Abstracts: Diagnosis and treatment of osteoporosis in patients with vertebral compression fractures. Bone density testing in older women and its association with patient age
Abstracts: Diagnosis of geriatric patients with severe dizziness. Interactive video specialty consultations in long-term care
Abstracts: Diet and the suitability of the male fischer 344 rat as a model for aging research. Dietary restriction alters characteristics of glucose fuel use
Abstracts: Dietary restriction alone and in combination with oral ethoxyquin/2-mercaptoethylamine in mice. Concerns about rodent models for aging research
Abstracts: Dieting after 50: changes you need to make now. We uneasy riders need our defining challenge. Do you need long-term-care insurance?
Abstracts: Differences in amount of informal care received by Non-Hispanic whites and Latinos in a nationally representative sample of older Americans
Abstracts: Differences in end-of-life preferences between congestive heart failure and dementia in a medical house calls program
Abstracts: Differences in mortality of black and white patients enrolled in the Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly
Abstracts: Differential age-related processing limitations in recall and recognition tasks. Effects of memory training on the subjective memory functioning and mental health of older adults: a meta-analysis
Abstracts: Differential effects of raloxifene and estrogen on insulin sensitivity in postmenopausal women. Effects of ultra-low-dose estrogen therapy on muscle and physical function in older women
Abstracts: Differing patterns of antiresorptive pharmacotherapy in nursing facility residents and community dwellers. Weight outcomes among antidepressant users in nursing facilities
Abstracts: Dimensionality of everyday problem solving in older adults. Everyday problem solving in older adults: observational assessment and cognitive correlates
Abstracts: Disability outcomes of older Medicare HMO enrollees and fee-for-service Medicare beneficiaries. Why physicians need to become more proficient in assessing their patients' competency and how they can achieve this
Abstracts: Disability, residential mobility, and changes in living arrangements. Age-related changes of sympathetic outflow to muscles in humans
Abstracts: Disability, residential mobility, and changes in living arrangements. part 2 Levels of disability among US adults with arthritis
Abstracts: Discourse comprehension and problem solving: decisions about the treatment of breast cancer by women across the life span
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