Age and Ageing

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Articles in May 1997 issue of Age and Ageing

• Sensitivity of the cough reflex in young and elderly subjects
  by Donald M. Newnham
• Death, Dying and Residential Care. - book reviews
  by Donald Portsmouth
• Fear of falling and restriction of mobility in elderly fallers
  by Bruno J. Vellas
• Textbook of Geriatric Psychiatry, 2d ed. - book reviews
  by Tom Arie
• Environmental hazards in the homes of older people
  by Susan E. Carter
• Who Will Care? Future Prospects for Family Care of Older People in the European Union. - book reviews
  by John Gladman
• Health status and disability among elderly people in three UK districts
  by Ronan A. Lyons
• Geriatric Assessment Technology: The State of the Art. - book reviews
  by Ian Philp
• The role of a specialist team in implementing continuing health care guidelines in hospitalized patients
  by Alice Cockram
• A Guide to the Care of the Elderly. - book reviews
  by Jeremy Playfer
• Screening for depression among acutely ill geriatric inpatients with a short geriatric depression scale
  by Ajit Shah
• Geriatrics: A Lange Clinical Manual. - book reviews
  by Jeremy Playfer
• Managing methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in hospital: the balance of risk
  by Sheldon P. Stone
• The performance of simple instruments in detecting geriatric conditions and selecting community dwelling older people for geriatric assessment
  by Rose C. Maly
• The natural history of delirium in older hospitalized patients: a syndrome of heterogeneity
  by Mark A. Rudberg
• A travel account of an 11-city tour of British geriatric units - Letter from … the Netherlands
  by Marcel G.M. Olde Rikkert
• Reliability of parathyroid hormone measurements in the period immediately following hip fracture
  by Antony Johansen
• Stroke: A Practical Guide to Management. - book reviews
  by John Gladman
• Longitudinal trends in late-life insomnia: implications for prescribing
  by Kevin Morgan
• Epidemiology in Old Age. - book reviews
  by Jolyon Meara