Contents
Geriatrics and Gerontolog y International Volume 18 Issue 8, August 2018
Sex-specific associations between smoking habits and reaching longevity: Netherlands Cohort Study
L Brandts and PA van den Brandt 1249
BEHAVIORAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
Factors that promote new or continuous participation in social group activity among Japanese community-dwelling older adults:
A 2-year longitudinal study
Y Nemoto et al. 1259
SOCIAL RESEARCH, PLANNING AND PRACTICE
Risk factors for falls in terms of attention during gait in community-dwelling older adults
T Inoue et al. 1267
Potentially avoidable hospitalizations, non-potentially avoidable hospitalizations and in-hospital deaths among residents of long-term care facilities
B Jeon et al. 1272
BIOLOGY
Prevalence of and factors associated with successful aging in Brazilian older adults: Frailty in Brazilian older people Study (FIBRA RJ)
AC Canêdo et al. 1280
Telomere shortening and frailty in Mexican older adults
M Ortiz-Ramírez et al. 1286
METHODOLOGICAL REPORT
European repository of explicit criteria of potentially inappropriate medications in old age
I Ivanova et al. 1293
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR CASE REPORTS
Trial of activity with a human-shaped robot for care recipients
E Takano et al. 1298
Ventricular tachycardia: An electrocardiographic artifact induced by tremors
A Charpin et al. 1299
Striatal hand in an elderly man with disseminated tuberculosis:
An unusual first case
R Gaude et al. 1300
RESEARCH STUDIES
Prevention of accidental deaths among people with dementia missing in the community in Japan
T Saito et al. 1301
Correlation between regional cerebral blood flow and body composition in healthy older women: A single-photon emission computed tomography study
C Fujisawa et al. 1303
Direct oral anticoagulants in the early phase of non-valvular atrial fibrillation-related ischemic stroke in very old patients undergoing systemic thrombolysis and/or mechanical thrombectomy
L Masotti et al. 1304
COMMENTS
Part II Comments on: Improving physical fitness and health status perception in community-dwelling older adults through a structured program for physical activity promotion in the city of Naples, Italy:
A randomized controlled trial
J Padulo et al. 1306
Causal inference from an observational study of geriatric rehabilitation pharmacotherapy
R Momosaki et al. 1307
EPIDEMIOLOGY, CLINICAL PRACTICE AND HEALTH
Effectiveness of weekend physical rehabilitation for functional recovery in geriatric patients with hip fracture
K Hasebe et al. 1143
Physiological and psychological effects of gardening activity in older adults
A Hassan et al. 1147
Role of autonomic nervous activity, as measured by heart rate variability, on the effect of mortality in disabled older adults with low blood pressure in long-term care
K Shibasaki et al. 1153
Prevalence, risk factors and adverse outcomes of anticholinergic burden in patients with advanced chronic conditions at hospital admission
D Sevilla-Sánchez et al. 1159
Impairment in toileting behavior after a stroke
E Kawanabe et al. 1166
Importance of frailty evaluation in the prediction of the prognosis of patients with chronic subdural hematoma
K Shimizu et al. 1173
Path analysis of caregiver characteristics and neuropsychiatric symptoms in Alzheimer’s disease patients
LL Delfi no et al. 1177
Risk factors for nursing- and healthcare-associated urinary tract infection
K Sugishita et al. 1183
Association of fall history with the Timed Up and Go test score and the dual task cost: A cross-sectional study among independent community-dwelling older adults
T Asai et al. 1189
Functional and clinical outcomes of patients aged younger and older than 85 years after rehabilitation post-hip fracture surgery in a co-managed orthogeriatric unit
P Mazzola et al. 1194
Frailty phenotype and its association with all-cause mortality in community-dwelling Norwegian women and men aged 70 years and older: The Tromsø Study 2001–2016
PL Langholz et al. 1200
Effects of knee taping during functional activities in older people with knee osteoarthritis: A randomized controlled clinical trial
K-n Park and S-h Kim 1206
Emergency surgery in octogenarians: Outcomes and factors affecting mortality in the general hospital setting
JC Bolger et al. 1211
Use of proton pump inhibitors is associated with increased mortality due to nosocomial pneumonia in bedridden patients receiving tube feeding
K Hamai et al. 1215
Factors associated with discontinuing or not starting oral anticoagulant therapy in older hospitalized patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation
J Díez-Manglano et al. 1219
Postural sway normative data across the adult lifespan: Results from 6280 individuals on the Balance Tracking System balance test
DJ Goble and HS Baweja 1225
Assessment of aspiration pneumonia using the Anticholinergic Risk Scale
E Kose et al. 1230
Factors affecting the appetites of persons with Alzheimer’s disease and mild cognitive impairment
S Suma et al. 1236
Less than one-third of hip fracture patients return to their prefracture level of instrumental activities of daily living in a prospective cohort study of 480 patients
S Moerman et al. 1244
