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Articles in Nov, 1998 issue of Age and Ageing

• The prevalence of diagnoses, impairments, disabilities and handicaps in a population of elderly people living in a defined geographical area: the Gospel Oak project
  by Rowan H. Harwood
• Cancer in the Elderly: a Nursing and Medical Perspective. - book reviews
  by Margot Gosney
• Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography in elderly patients
  by Charles E. Ashton
• The use of general practitioner elderly beds in community hospitals
  by Kenneth M. Rhodes
• Risk of admission within 4 weeks of discharge of elderly patients from the emergency department—the DEED study
  by Gideon A. Caplan
• The use of the Short Form -36 questionnaire for older adults - SF
  by Monts Ferrer
• The effect of walking aids on exercise capacity and oxygenation in elderly patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
  by Jamal Roomi
• Hip protectors and hip fractures
  by Pirkko O. Jantti
• Carotid disease in acute stroke
  by Gillian E. Mead
• Physical activity and dehydroepiandrosterone sulphate, insulin-like growth factor I and testosterone in healthy active elderly people
  by Marc Bonnefoy
• News and reviews
  by Diogenes
• Effect of zinc or zinc plus arginine supplementation on antibody titre and lymphocyte subsets after influenza vaccination in elderly subjects: a randomized controlled trial
  by Mauro Provinciali
• Symptom Management in Advanced Cancer. - book reviews
  by Margot Gosney
• Long-term outcome of percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy feeding in patients with dysphagic stroke
  by Anthony James
• Alcohol and mortality: is there a U-shaped relation in elderly people?
  by Morten Gronbaek
• Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh Consensus Conference on Medical Management of Stroke, 26-27 May 1998
• Fruit and vegetable consumption in later life
  by Angela E. Johnson
• Proximal femoral fracture: achievements and prospects
  by Christopher A. Austin
• Prevalence of coronary heart disease, associated manifestations and electrocardiographic findings in elderly Finns
  by Merja Ahto
• Jaw reflexes in healthy old people
  by Anastassia E. Kossioni
• Euthanasia and old age
  by Peter H. Millard