Contents
Geriatrics and Gerontolog y International Volume 19 Issue 8, August 2019
Reference range of clinical blood tests in physically independent patients of advanced age with groin hernia in a Japanese hospital
M Matsuo and K Tazawa 780
Older adults are prioritized in terms of waiting time under the emergency triage system in Guangzhou, China
W Pan et al. 786
Association between decrease in frequency of going out and oral function in older adults living in major urban areas
Y Mikami et al. 792
Diabetes, arthritis, urinary incontinence, poor self-rated health, higher body mass index and lower handgrip strength are associated with falls among community- dwelling middle-aged and older adults: Pooled analyses from two cross-sectional Malaysian datasets
DKA Singh et al. 798
Relationship between blood coagulability and sense of burden among caregivers of patients with dementia
A Hirano et al. 804
Development of the Barthel Index 5 years after hip fracture:
Results of a prospective study
T Knauf et al. 809
Factors of post-stroke dementia: A nationwide cohort study in Taiwan
C-H Li et al. 815
BEHAVIORAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
Functional training in postmenopause: Cardiac autonomic modulation and cardiorespiratory parameters,
a randomized trial
MPC Rezende Barbosa et al. 823
SOCIAL RESEARCH, PLANNING AND PRACTICE
Care preferences of healthy, middle-aged adults in Japan and the USA if they acquired dementia: A cross-sectional observational study
M Nakanishi et al. 829
BIOLOGY
Quantitative evaluation of age-related changes to pelvic floor muscles in magnetic resonance images from 369 patients
Y Komemushi et al. 834
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR COMMENTS
Post-intensive care unit respiratory failure in older patients:
Can we predict intensive care unit discharge properly?
P Ruggeri et al. 838
Authors’ reply to comments on “Post-intensive care unit respiratory failure in older patients liberated from intensive care unit and ventilator”
Y-C Chen et al. 839
Neprilysin inhibitors and chest pain perception in acute myocardial infarction
E Siniorakis et al. 840
REVIEW ARTICLE
Era of geriatric medical challenges: Multimorbidity among older patients
M Kuzuya 699
EPIDEMIOLOGY, CLINICAL PRACTICE AND HEALTH
Does transpersonal trust moderate the association between chronic conditions and general practitioner visits in the oldest old? Results of the AgeCoDe and AgeQualiDe study
A Hajek et al. 705
Social determinants of the association among cerebrovascular disease, hearing loss and cognitive impairment in a middle-aged or older population:
Recurrent neural network analysis of the Korean Longitudinal Study of Aging (2014–2016)
K-S Lee and KW Park 711
Effect of watching professional baseball at a stadium on health-related outcomes among Japanese older adults:
A randomized controlled trial
R Kawakami et al. 717
Prevalence of frailty status among the European elderly population: Findings from the Survey of Health, Aging and Retirement in Europe
G Manfredi et al. 723
Polypharmacy and gait speed in individuals with mild cognitive impairment
H Umegaki et al. 730
Gait asymmetry assessment for older adults by measuring circular gait speed
N Ichihashi et al. 736
Alcohol consumption and incident dementia in older Japanese adults: The Okayama Study
Y Liu et al. 740
Associations between self-reported hearing loss and outdoor activity limitations, psychological distress and self-reported memory loss among older people: Analysis of the 2016 Comprehensive Survey of Living Conditions in Japan
M Iwagami et al. 747
Taking metformin and cognitive function change in older patients with diabetes
BK Koo et al. 755
Diagnosis of postoperative delirium in older adults using the Confusion Assessment Method for the intensive care unit in non-intensive care unit settings: A test modification might improve its diagnostic performance
T Wongviriyawong et al. 762
Efficacy of a newly developed auditory–cognitive training system on speech recognition, central auditory processing and cognitive ability among older adults with normal cognition and with neurocognitive impairment
Y Yusof et al. 768
Spouse’s functional disability and mortality: The Ohsaki Cohort 2006 Study
T Sone et al. 774
