Age and Ageing

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Articles in May 1998 issue of Age and Ageing

• Inadequate caloric intake: a risk factor for mortality of geriatric patients in the acute-care hospital
  by Raffaele Antonelli Incalzi
• A comparison of the Barthel index and Nottingham extended activities o daily living scale in the assessment of disability in chronic airflow limitation in old age
  by Abebaw M. Yohannes
• Individuality and responsiveness of biochemical indices of dehydration in hospitalized elderly patients
  by Marcel G.M. Olde Rikkert
• A comparison of mental health among minority ethnic elders and whites in East and North London
  by Ellen R.T. Silveira
• Community hospitals - Editorial
  by William R. Primrose
• Effects of ageing on the initial metabolic response to accidental injury
  by Roger N. Barton
• Medication prescribing and administration in nursing homes
  by Michael S. Roberts
• The psychiatric needs of ethnic minority elders in the UK
  by Ajit Shah
• Age-related decline in the knowledge of diabetes mellitus and hypoglycaemic symptoms in non-insulin-dependent diabetic patients in Hong Kong
  by Cho Yin Yung
• Quality of life in nursing-home residents: an intervention study of the effect of mental stimulation through an audiovisual programme
  by Lisa Ronnberg
• Screening for depression and cognitive impairment in older people from ethnic minorities
  by Greta Riat
• Inter-hospital variations in length of hospital stay following hip fracture
  by Martyn J. Parker
• The clock-drawing test
  by Berit Agrell
• Growing old in Japan
  by Naoki Ikegami
• Hospital-acquired diarrhoea in elderly patients: epidemiology and staff awareness
  by Lorraine Kyne
• The 'eye test' in the identification of patients with late-onset Alzheimer's disease - Letters to the editor
  by Ludovica Caputo
• Population-based study of pain in elderly people: a descriptive survey
  by Bruno Brochet
• Cost analysis of early supported hospital discharge for stroke
  by Paul McNamee
• Still's disease in an 80-year-old woman - Letters to the editor
  by Chi Chiu Mok
• The effect of age and quality of life on doctors' decisions to anticoagulate patients with atrial fibrillation
  by Mark Sudlow
• Rectal examination in elderly subjects: attitudes of patients and doctors
  by Rosemary Morgan
• Investigating heart failure in elderly people: does everyone need an echocardiogram?
  by Niall L.T. Cox
• Community hospitals and district general hospital medical bed use by elderly people: a study of 342 general practitioner beds in Oxfordshire
  by Peter Cook, J.
• Use of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors in elderly patients with heart failure
  by Shaun O'Keeffe
• The relationship of anthropometry and bio-electrical impedance to dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry in elderly men and women
  by Nicola C. chapman