Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Randomized Trial to Improve Prescribing Safety in Ambulatory Elderly Patients
pp. 977-985(9)
Authors: Raebel, Marsha A.; Charles, Jeanya; Dugan, Jennifer; Carroll, Nikki M.; Korner, Eli J.; Brand, David W.; Magid, David J.

Effect of Telephone Counseling on Physical Activity for Low-Active Older People in Primary Care: A Randomized, Controlled Trial
pp. 986-992(7)
Authors: Kolt, Gregory S.; Schofield, Grant M.; Kerse, Ngaire; Garrett, Nick; Oliver, Melody

Increased Satisfaction with Care and Lower Costs: Results of a Randomized Trial of In-Home Palliative Care
pp. 993-1000(8)
Authors: Brumley, Richard; Enguidanos, Susan; Jamison, Paula; Seitz, Rae; Morgenstern, Nora; Saito, Sherry; McIlwane, Jan; Hillary, Kristine; Gonzalez, Jorge

An Electronic Medical Record Intervention Increased Nursing Home Advance Directive Orders and Documentation
pp. 1001-1006(6)
Authors: Lindner, Serge A.; Ben Davoren, J.; Vollmer, Andrew; Williams, Brie; Seth Landefeld, C.

Inconsistency Over Time in the Preferences of Older Persons with Advanced Illness for Life-Sustaining Treatment
pp. 1007-1014(8)
Authors: Fried, Terri R.; O'Leary, John; Van Ness, Peter; Fraenkel, Liana

Effect of Xuezhikang on Cardiovascular Events and Mortality in Elderly Patients with a History of Myocardial Infarction: A Subgroup Analysis of Elderly Subjects from the China Coronary Secondary Prevention Study
pp. 1015-1022(8)
Authors: Ye, Ping; Lu, Zong-Liang; Du, Bao-min; Chen, Zuo; Wu, Yang-Feng; Yu, Xue-Hai; Zhao, Yu-Cheng

Depressive Symptoms in Older African-American and White Adults with Functional Difficulties: The Role of Control Strategies
pp. 1023-1030(8)
Authors: Gitlin, Laura N.; Hauck, Walter W.; Dennis, Marie P.; Schulz, Richard

Effect of Dementia and Treatment of Dementia on Time to Discharge from Assisted Living Facilities: The Maryland Assisted Living Study
pp. 1031-1037(7)
Authors: Lyketsos, Constantine G.; Samus, Quincy M.; Baker, Alva; McNabney, Mathew; Onyike, Chiadi U.; Mayer, Lawrence S.; Brandt, Jason; Rabins, Peter; Rosenblatt, Adam

The New Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Benefit: An Estimation of Its Effect on Prescription Drug Costs in a Medicare Population with Atrial Fibrillation (See editorial comments by Dr. Richard Stefanacci on pp 1134-1136)
pp. 1038-1043(6)
Authors: Evans-Molina, Carmella; Regan, Susan; Henault, Lori E.; Hylek, Elaine M.; Schwartz, Gregory R.

Lower Cardiac Output Is Associated with Greater White Matter Hyperintensities in Older Adults with Cardiovascular Disease
pp. 1044-1048(5)
Authors: Jefferson, Angela L.; Tate, David F.; Poppas, Athena; Brickman, Adam M.; Paul, Robert H.; Gunstad, John; Cohen, Ronald A.

Mortality Risk in Older Inner-City African Americans
pp. 1049-1055(7)
Authors: Malmstrom, Theodore K.; Andresen, Elena M.; Wolinsky, Fredric D.; Philip Miller, J.; Stamps, Kathryn; Miller, Douglas K.

Trends in Hypertension Prevalence, Awareness, Treatment, and Control in Older U.S. Adults: Data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 1988 to 2004
pp. 1056-1065(10)
Authors: Ostchega, Yechiam; Dillon, Charles F.; Hughes, Jeffery P.; Carroll, Margaret; Yoon, Sarah

Using the Mini-Mental State Examination for Tracking Cognition in the Older Population Based on Longitudinal Data
pp. 1066-1071(6)
Authors: Chatfield, Mark; Matthews, Fiona E.; Brayne, Carol

Diagnostic Accuracy of Criteria for Urinary Tract Infection in a Cohort of Nursing Home Residents
pp. 1072-1077(6)
Authors: Juthani-Mehta, Manisha; Tinetti, Mary; Perrelli, Eleanor; Towle, Virginia; Van Ness, Peter H.; Quagliarello, Vincent

Organizational Relationships Between Nursing Homes and Hospitals and Quality of Care During Hospital-Nursing Home Patient Transfers
pp. 1078-1084(7)
Authors: Boockvar, Kenneth S.; Burack, Orah R.

Energy Requirements in Hospitalized Elderly People
pp. 1085-1089(5)
Authors: Alix, Emmanuel; Berrut, Gilles; Boré, Maryvonne; Bouthier-Quintard, Françoise; Buia, Jean Marie; Chlala, André; Cledat, Yves; d'Orsay, Geneviève; Lavigne, Christian; Levasseur, Régis; Mouzet, Jean Baptiste; Ombredanne, Marie Pierre; Sallé, Agnès; Gaillard, Cathy; Ritz, Patrick

The Role of Cognitive Functioning and Distress in Suicidal Ideation in Older Adults
pp. 1090-1094(5)
Authors: Ayalon, Liat; Mackin, Scott; Arean, Patricia A.; Chen, Hongtu; McDonel Herr, Elizabeth C.

Exercise: A Potential Contributing Factor to the Relationship Between Folate and Dementia
pp. 1095-1098(4)
Authors: Middleton, Laura E.; Kirkland, Susan A.; Maxwell, Colleen J.; Hogan, David B.; Rockwood, Kenneth

Preliminary Derivation of a Nursing Home Confusion Assessment Method Based on Data from the Minimum Data Set
pp. 1099-1105(7)
Authors: Dosa, David; Intrator, Orna; McNicoll, Lynn; Cang, Yuwei; Teno, Joan

Increasing Generic Drug Use in Medicare Part D: The Role of Government (See editorial comments by Dr. Richard Stefanacci on pp 1134-1136)
pp. 1106-1109(4)
Authors: Kohl, Senator Herb; Shrank, William H.

Effect of the Medicaid Deficit Reduction Act on Older Adults
pp. 1110-1114(5)
Author: Koss, Diana B.

Medicare Part D and Nursing Home Residents (See editorial comments by Dr. Richard Stefanacci on pp 1134-1136)
pp. 1115-1125(11)
Authors: Stevenson, David G.; Huskamp, Haiden A.; Keating, Nancy L.; Newhouse, Joseph P.

Tracking Clerkship Experience: Just What Do Clinical Clerks See on an Elder Care Rotation?
pp. 1126-1133(8)
Authors: Diachun, Laura L.; Van Bussel, Lisa; Ens, Andrea; Dumbrell, Andrea C.; Hillier, Loretta M.

Medicare Part D: It Should Be All About Quality … Stupid!
pp. 1134-1136(3)
Author: Stefanacci, Richard G.

Cui Bono and the Electrocardiogram
pp. 1137-1138(2)
Author: Becker, Ward G.

RETHINKING THE RESIDENT ASSESSMENT PROTOCOLS
pp. 1139-1140(2)
Authors: Fries, Brant E.; Morris, John N.; Bernabei, Roberto; Finne-Soveri, Harriet; Hirdes, John

PREDICTORS OF MOBILITY IN MEDICALLY UNSTABLE ELDERLY PATIENTS WITH HIP FRACTURES: A PRELIMINARY STUDY IN A GERIATRIC WARD
pp. 1140-1141(2)
Authors: Atalay, Ayce; Turhan, Nur

REDOX STATUS OF COENZYME Q₁₀ IS ASSOCIATED WITH CHRONOLOGICAL AGE
pp. 1141-1142(2)
Authors: Wada, Hiroo; Goto, Hajime; Hagiwara, Shin-Ichi; Yamamoto, Yorihiro

TUMOR HYPOXIA IMAGING WITH [F-18] FLUORONITROIMIDAZOLE IN NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG CANCER
pp. 1142-1144(3)
Authors: Yasuda, Hiroyasu; Kaneta, Tomohiro; Takai, Yoshihiro; Nakayama, Katsutoshi; Iwata, Ren; Ito, Masatoshi; Tsujitani, Michihiko; Takahashi, Shoki; Yamada, Shogo; Sasaki, Takahiko; Yanagihara, Kazuhiro; Yamaya, Mutsuo

ATYPICAL NEUROPSYCHIATRIC SYMPTOMS REVEALING HASHIMOTO'S ENCEPHALOPATHY
pp. 1144-1146(3)
Authors: Hommet, Caroline; Mondon, Karl; Huc, Melina; Jeffredo, Sophie; Constans, Thierry; de Toffol, Bertrand; Camus, Vincent

MANAGEMENT OF NONCANCER PAIN IN COMMUNITY-DWELLING PERSONS WITH DEMENTIA
pp. 1146-1146(1)
Author: King, Steven A.

ACUTE ABDOMINAL AORTIC THROMBOSIS AS A COMPLICATION OF THE HEIMLICH MANEUVER
pp. 1146-1147(2)
Authors: Martin, Thomas J.; Bobba, Ravi K.; Metzger, Rosemarie; Madalina, Macrea; Bollu, Madhavi; Patel, Bharatbhai G.; Kazemi, Mehdi M.

INITIATING REFERRAL IN MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT: WHO RINGS THE BELL?
pp. 1147-1149(3)
Authors: Prodan, Calin I.; Monnot, Marilee; Brumback, Roger A.; Ross, Elliott D.

SLEEP APNEA AND FALLS IN OLDER PEOPLE
pp. 1149-1150(2)
Authors: Kaushik, Shweta; Wang, Jie Jin; Mitchell, Paul

RISE AND FALL OF SKELETAL MUSCLE SIZE OVER THE ENTIRE LIFE SPAN
pp. 1150-1152(3)
Authors: Arts, Ilse M. P.; Pillen, Sigrid; Overeem, Sebastiaan; Jurgen Schelhaas, H.; Zwarts, Machiel J.

FACTORS PREDICTING 2-YEAR COGNITIVE DECLINE IN NONAGENARIANS WITHOUT COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT AT BASELINE: THE NONASANTFELIU STUDY
pp. 1152-1154(3)
Authors: Formiga, Francesc; Ferrer, Assumpta; Reñe, Ramon; Riera, Antoni; Gascon, Jordi; Pujol, Ramón

Conferences and Courses
pp. 1155-1160(6)