Background In old age, reduction in physical function leads to loss of independence, the
need for hospital and long-term nursing-home care, and premature death. We did a …

Comprehensive geriatric assessment is a technique for multidimensional diagnosis of frail
elderly people with the purpose of planning and/or delivering medical, psychosocial, and …

The object of screening for disease is to discover those among the apparently well who are
in fact suffering from disease. They can then be placed under treatment and, if the disease is …

There is disagreement on the usefulness of comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) due
to conflicting results from individual trials. We did a meta-analysis on 28 controlled trials …

With a psychiatrist's standardized clinical diagnosis as the criterion, the 'Mini-Mental
State'Examination (MMSE) was 87% sensitive and 82% specific in detecting dementia and …

Much previous research on elderly people had focused on their problems, and had created
an impression of a group of isolated individuals suffering from almost insurmountable social …

Screening examinations are widely advocated for the early detection of disease in the
elderly (Williamson et al., 1964; Lowther, McLeod and Williamson, 1970; Williams et al …

We conducted a case-control study in 100 cases who had Alzheimer's-type dementia and
100 age-, sex-, and education-matched, nondemented controls to evaluate the hypothesis …

This article looks at the “fourth age” as a manifestation of the fragmentation of “old age”. We
argue that the fourth age emerges from the institutionalization of the infirmities of old age set …

Background Previous estimates of the prevalence of geriatric depression have varied. There
are few large population-based studies; most of these focused on individuals younger than …