This week's This week in the BMJ

	Rehabilitation for stroke is as successful at home as in hospital [Full text] FREE

	In elderly people a simple tool predicts falls, and an exercise programme reduces risk of falls [Full text] FREE

	Prevention of insulin resistance may reduce risk of Alzheimer's disease [Full text] FREE

	Burden of illness from colds exceeds that of flu in elderly people [Full text] FREE

	Mild cognitive impairment is linked to raised mortality risk [Full text] FREE

Editorials

This week's Editorials

	Aging: a subject that must be at the top of world agendas
	Sally Greengross, Elaine Murphy, Lois Quam, Paula Rochon, Richard Smith
	BMJ  1997;315:1029-1030 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	There is no such thing as aging
	Richard Peto, Richard Doll
	BMJ  1997;315:1030-1032 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Richard Doll at 85
	Richard Smith
	BMJ  1997;315:1031 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Will you still need me, will you still screen me, when I'm past 64?
	Graham C Sutton
	BMJ  1997;315:1032-1033 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Including elderly people in clinical trials
	Jerry Avorn
	BMJ  1997;315:1033-1034 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	The debate of the age
	Jessica Westall
	BMJ  1997;315:1034 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

News

This week's News

	Nobel prize winners unravel aging process
	Zosia Kmietowicz
	BMJ  1997;315:1035-1038 [Extract] [Full text]

	Older shift workers should work morning shifts
	Caroline White
	BMJ  1997;315:1035-1038 [Extract] [Full text]

	In brief
	BMJ  1997;315:1035-1038 [Extract] [Full text]

	Training in care of elderly needs to improve
	Susan Mayor
	BMJ  1997;315:1035-1038 [Extract] [Full text]

	Commission calls for rethink on care of elderly people
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1997;315:1035-1038 [Extract] [Full text]

	Older smokers are left out of antismoking policies
	Caroline White
	BMJ  1997;315:1035-1038 [Extract] [Full text]

	Alzheimer's disease drug not recommended
	Jacqui Wise
	BMJ  1997;315:1035-1038 [Extract] [Full text]

	South East Asia confronts its rapidly aging population
	Shah Ebrahim
	BMJ  1997;315:1035-1038 [Extract] [Full text]

	Speaking out for the aging population
	Julia Tavares de Alvarez
	BMJ  1997;315:1035-1038 [Extract] [Full text]

Clinical review

This week's Clinical review

	Recent advances: Geriatric medicine
	Marco Pahor, William B Applegate
	BMJ  1997;315:1071-1074 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

General practice

This week's General practice

	Acute viral infections of upper respiratory tract in elderly people living in the community: comparative, prospective, population based study of disease burden
	Karl G Nicholson, Julie Kent, Victoria Hammersley, Esperanza Cancio
	BMJ  1997;315:1060-1064 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Randomised controlled trial of a general practice programme of home based exercise to prevent falls in elderly women
	A John Campbell, M Clare Robertson, Melinda M Gardner, Robyn N Norton, Murray W Tilyard, David M Buchner
	BMJ  1997;315:1065-1069 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Effectiveness of influenza vaccination policy at targeting patients at high risk of complications during winter 1994-5: cross sectional survey
	John Watkins
	BMJ  1997;315:1069-1070 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

Soundings

This week's Soundings

	Old men at play
	Colin Douglas
	BMJ  1997;315:1100 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Personal views

This week's Personal views

	Please don't make a fuss, dear
	Michael J Chamberlain
	BMJ  1997;315:1100-1101 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	If I can do it anyone can
	Katherine Harris
	BMJ  1997;315:1100-1101 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Medicine and books

This week's Medicine and books

	Ageing Europe, by Alan Walker, Tony Maltby
	Michael Gordon
	BMJ  1997;315:1103 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Caring for the Fourth Age: A Practical Guide to Medical Problems in Old Age, by J J Oram
	W J MacLennan
	BMJ  1997;315:1103 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Education and debate

This week's Education and debate

	Geriatric medicine: a brief history
	John Grimley Evans
	BMJ  1997;315:1075-1077 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Molecular biology's impact on our understanding of aging
	David M A Mann
	BMJ  1997;315:1078-1081 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Population aging and health
	Robert N Butler
	BMJ  1997;315:1082-1084 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Coronary heart disease: an older woman's major health risk
	Nanette K Wenger
	BMJ  1997;315:1085-1090 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Healthy aging
	Kay-Tee Khaw
	BMJ  1997;315:1090-1096 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Optimising drug treatment for elderly people: the prescribing cascade
	Paula A Rochon, Jerry H Gurwitz
	BMJ  1997;315:1096-1099 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Minerva

This week's Minerva

	Minerva
	BMJ  1997;315:1104 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Fillers

This week's Fillers

	An experience that shaped my career: My first diagnosis
	James Horsfall
	BMJ  1997;315 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Alternative definitions
	Ambrose Bierce
	BMJ  1997;315 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Endpiece: Scientific distinction hampers private practice?
	BMJ  1997;315 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

	Tales from retirement: A senior's lecture tour
	E J M Campbell
	BMJ  1997;315 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Career focus

This week's Career focus

	Life, your career, and the pursuit of happiness...
	Carl Gray
	BMJ  1997;315:2 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Doctors looking for well remunerated additions to their career portfolio ...
	BMJ  1997;315:3 [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: The BMA has updated its model contract for doctors in ...
	BMJ  1997;315:3a [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: The report of a task force set up to consider ...
	BMJ  1997;315:3b [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Briefing: Job sharing is one way of working flexibly, but first ...
	BMJ  1997;315:3c [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

CHOICE

This week's CHOICE

	Aging: on a full sea we are now afloat
	BMJ  1997;315 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

This week's MEDICINE AND THE MEDIA

	Old fools, rogues, lovers, and sages
	Colin Currie
	BMJ  1997;315:1102 [Full text] [Request Permissions]

Papers

This week's Papers

	Randomised controlled trial to evaluate early discharge scheme for patients with stroke
	Anthony G Rudd, Charles D A Wolfe, Kate Tilling, Roger Beech
	BMJ  1997;315:1039-1044 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Association between features of the insulin resistance syndrome and alzheimer's disease independently of apolipoprotein e4 phenotype: cross sectional population based study
	Johanna Kuusisto, Keijo Koivisto, Leena Mykkänen, Eeva-Liisa Helkala, Matti Vanhanen, Tuomo Hänninen, Kari Kervinen, Y Antero Kesäniemi, Paavo J Riekkinen, Markku Laakso
	BMJ  1997;315:1045-1049 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Development and evaluation of evidence based risk assessment tool (STRATIFY) to predict which elderly inpatients will fall: case-control and cohort studies
	D Oliver, M Britton, P Seed, F C Martin, A H Hopper
	BMJ  1997;315:1049-1053 [Abstract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Impact of mild cognitive impairment on survival in very elderly people: cohort study
	J Gussekloo, R G J Westendorp, E J Remarque, A M Lagaay, T J Heeren, D L Knook
	BMJ  1997;315:1053-1054 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Foot morbidity and exposure to chiropody: population based study
	Ian Harvey, Stephen Frankel, Ronald Marks, David Shalom, Maria Morgan
	BMJ  1997;315:1054-1055 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Mortality related to cold weather in elderly people in southeast England, 1979-94
	G C Donaldson, W R Keatinge
	BMJ  1997;315:1055-1056 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Adverse drug reactions in elderly patients as contributing factor for hospital admission: cross sectional study
	Cyndie K Mannesse, Frans H M Derkx, Maria A J de Ridder, Tischa J M van der Cammen, Arie J Man in 't Veld
	BMJ  1997;315:1057-1058 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Breast examinations in older women: questionnaire survey of attitudes of patients and doctors
	Eugene Haigney, Rosemary Morgan, Debra King, Branwell Spencer
	BMJ  1997;315:1058-1059 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

	Exclusion of elderly people from clinical research: a descriptive study of published reports
	G Bugeja, A Kumar, Arup K Banerjee
	BMJ  1997;315:1059 [Extract] [Full text] [Request Permissions] FREE

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