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Contents 2000
Volume 19.1, February 2000
Volume
19.2, May 2000
Volume
19.3, August 2000
Volume
19.4, November 2000
Professional Practice Update
Management of lower urinary tract symptoms in
men...........................................................................2
Samantha Pillay, Villis Marshall and Carole Pinnock
Innovations in Aged Care
The Clinical Value Compass:
achieving benchmarking and quality improvement in aged
care.................11
Michael Woodward, Jospehine Beer, Samantha Mackay and Len
Gray
Review Article
Poor functional health literacy:
the silent disability for older
people........................................................14
Leigh Tooth, Michele Clark and Kryss McKenna
Research
South Australia's ageing
population and its increasingly multicultural
nature............................................23
Graeme Hugo
Prevalence of analgesic and
psychotropic medication use by older people with chronic
pain..................33
Francis Kung, Stephen J. Gibson and Robert D. Helme
Brief Reports
Using the Internet to build
bridges to isolated older
people...................................................................38
Rick Swindell
Predicting depression in a sample
of older women living in a retirement
village...................................... 40
Debra Rickwood and Kylie J. Rylands
Letter to the Editor
Special needs, special
wants...............................................................................................................
43
Ljubica Petrov and Lawrence Arnold
Bookshelf
Book
reviews......................................................................................................................................45
Other books
received..........................................................................................................................47
1999 Reviewers
Editorial Review Panel,
1999...............................................................................................................52
Volume 19.1 Supplement February 2000
Abstracts of papers, Aged and Community Services Australia and the Australian Association of Gerontology Joint National Conference Sydney, 1999. 92pages
Opinion
The burden of disease and injury among older
Australians………………………………...............….54
Colin Mathers and Theo Vos
Professional Practice Update
End of life decision making: practical and
ethical issues for health
professionals………...................….57
Colleen Cartwright
Innovations in Aged Care
Creating a profile of residents in a special
dementia
hostel…………………………….................….63
Richard B. Lefroy
Research
Information and communication practices: the
joint concerns of age and gender in the
information
age……………………………………………………………………………….........69
Karen R. Barnett, Laurie R. Buys and Barbara A. Adkins
Hitting a century: centenarians in
Australia…………………………………………………..............75
John McCormack
Prevalence of geriatric 'syndromes'
in a tertiary
hospital…………………………………….............81
B. Nair, I. O'Dea, L. Lim and A. Thakkinstian
Anthropometric and laboratory markers of
nutritional status in a large sample of older Australians:
the ALSA
study………………………………………………………………................................85
C.H. Whitehead, L.C. Giles, G.R. Andrews and P. Finucane
Brief Report
Footwear and hip fracture-related falls in
older
people……………………………………..........….91
Fleur Hourihan, Robert G. Cumming, Karen M. Taverner-Smith and
Ian Davidson
Case Report
The importance of home visits: a case of
extreme
polypharmacy…………………………….............94
Wen Kwang Lim and Janis Mason
Letters to the Editor
Cognitive screening of older hospital
patients……………………………………………...........…..96
Benny Katz and Robert D. Helme
Special needs of the ethnic
aged........................................................................................................96
Licia Kokocinski
Bookshelf
Book
reviews………………………………………………………………………………….......99
Other books
received………………………………………………………………......……....…102
Opinion
PEG feeding, dementia and the need for policies
and guidelines
C.M. Cartwright and M.A. Steinberg ….…………………………………………………..……...........106
IYOP Review Forum
IYOP: how older people have benefited
Patricia Reeve …………………………………………………………………………......….....108
IYOP: a health-care provider's viewpoint
John Snowdon ……………………………………………………………………...................…109
After IYOP: a foresight panel? Coordinated
research?
John McCallum …………………………………………………………………….…..........…..111
Innovation in Aged Care
Development of a training program in clinical
geropsychology
Edward Helmes and Susan Gee……………………………………………………
..........…...…113
Coordination and elder abuse: development of
interagency protocols in NSW
Paul Sadler and Glen Sorensen ………………………………………………………
…........….118
Review Article
Mature age employment: recent developments in
public policy in Australia and the UK
Philip Taylor, Margaret Steinberg and Linda Walley
……………………………….....…....…...125
Research
Rent assistance policy for residents of
retirement villages
Tony Eardley …………………………………………………………………………....…..........130
Immunisation rates in older veterans and war widows
Balakrishnan Nair, Julie Byles, Meredith Tavener and Robyn Heinze ……………….…..............136
Pet ownership is not associated with future
health: a nine year prospective study in older Australians
Leon A. Simons, Judith Simons, John McCallum and Vechiel
Friedlander ………….......…........139
Effects of pet ownership on the health and
well-being of older people
Y. Wells and H. Rodi …………………………………………………………………….........…..143
Brief Report
Care and support assistance provided in
retirement villages: expectations vs reality
Laurie R. Buys ………………………………………………………………………….........…...149
Bookshelf
Book reviews
…………………………………………………………………………....…....…...152
Other books received
………………………………………………………….…….......…...…....154
Opinion
Driving into danger? Compulsory driving licence
cancellation in Alzheimer's disease
J. Hecker .......................................................................................................................................
158
Gerontological nursing: Jack and Jill of all
trades and master or mistress of none?
A. Pearson, M.FitzGerald and K. Walsh .......................................................................................160
ASGM Position Statement
Geriatric assessment and community practice
C. Whitehead and R Penhall .........................................................................................................
165
Review Articles
Participation in, and barriers to, training:
the experience of older adults
M. Cully, A. VandenHeuvel, R. Curtain and M. Wooden .............................................................
172
Community care of older Chinese people in Hong
Kong: a selective review
M.H.L. Lui, D.T.F. Lee and A.E. Mackenzie
................................................................................
180
Research
A longitudinal study of alcohol consumption and
functional disability in a community sample of older people
O.F. Dent, D.A. Grayson, L.M. Waite, J.S. Cullen, H. Creasey,
H.P. Bennett,
B.J. Casey and G.A. Broe .............................................................................................................
185
Knowledge and beliefs of older Australians
about sexuality and health
V. Minichiello, D. Plummer and D. Loxton ..................................................................................
190
'Acopia': a useful term or not?
J.L. Obeid and S.J. Ogle ...............................................................................................................
195
Case report
A case of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease in an older
Chinese woman
A.K.W. Wong and D.K.Y. Chan
....................................................................................................
199
Bookshelf
Book
reviews..................................................................................................................................
201
Other books received
.....................................................................................................................
203
Annual Index
Author and subject index to 2000
issues..........................................................................................
207
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