Age and Ageing

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Articles in March 1998 issue of Age and Ageing

• Can bedside assessment reliably exclude aspiration following acute stroke?
  by David G. Smithard
• Placement of dementia sufferers in residential and nursing home care
  by Carol Bannister
• Hypophysial insufficiency in old age: a forgotten syndrome?
  by Fernando Jose Ruiz Laiglesia
• Inter-rater reliability and validity of the Action Research arm test in stroke patients
  by Ching-Lin Hsieh
• Will elderly rest home residents wear hip protectors?
  by M. Tracey A. Villar
• Social support and activities of daily living in older Afro-Caribbean and white UK residents - Letters to the Editor
  by Marcus Richards
• Estimating total Barthel scores from just three items: the European Stroke Database 'minimum dataset' for assessing functional status at discharge from hospital
  by John Ellul
• Home from home: residents' opinions of nursing homes and long-stay wards
  by Paul F.D. Higgs
• Association between malnutrition, poor general health and oral dryness in hospitalized elderly patients
  by Valerie Dormenval
• Quality of life and longevity: a study of centenarians
  by Marirosa Dello Buono
• Variations by age in symptoms and dependency levels experienced by people in the last year of life, as reported by surviving family, fiends and officials
  by Julia Addington-Hall
• The viability of soft tissues in elderly subjects undergoing hip surgery
  by Dan L. Bader
• A kinematic comparison between elderly and young subjects standing up from and sitting down in a chair
  by France Mourey
• Prolonged digitoxin half-life in very elderly patients
  by Thomas Bohmer
• Age-related variability in body composition methods for assessment of percent fat and fat-free mass in men aged 20-74 years
  by Michael G. Bemben
• Acceptability and compliance with wearing energy-shunting hip protectors: a 6-month prospective follow-up in a Finnish nursing home
  by Jari Parkkari
• Hip protectors - Editorial
  by Tim J. Wilkinson
• Depression in elderly outpatients with disabling chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
  by Abebw M. Yohannes
• Assessment of femoral bone fragility and fracture risk by ultrasonic measurements at the calcaneus
  by Steven Boonen
• European Academy for Medicine of Ageing: a new network for geriatricians in Europe
  by Harald J.J. Verhaar
• Methodology, results and quality of clinical trials of tacrine in the treatment of Alzheimer's disease: a systematic review of the literature
  by Jesus Lopez Arrieta
• Management of spasticity
  by Michael P. Barnes
• An inpatient bed for acute nursing home admissions
  by Stuart G. Hutchinson
• Previous psychiatric history as a risk factor for late-life dementia: a population-based case-control study
  by Brian Cooper
• Research into the treatment of vascular dementia in China using traditional therapies - Letter From … China
  by Jinzhou Tian