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Geriatric Pain Measure short form: development and initial evaluationEva Blozik
Department of Geriatrics and Institute of Scoial and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
J Am Geriatr Soc 55:2045-50. 2007..To develop and evaluate a short form of the 24-item Geriatric Pain Measure (GPM) for use in community-dwelling older adults...
Promotion of health in older people: a randomised controlled trial of health risk appraisal in British general practiceDanielle Harari
Department of Ageing and Health, Guys and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust, St Thomas Hospital, London SE1 7EH, UK
Age Ageing 37:565-71. 2008..This article describes a trial using HRA to evaluate the effect on health behaviour and preventative-care uptake in older people in NHS primary care...
Development, feasibility and performance of a health risk appraisal questionnaire for older personsAndreas E Stuck
Department of Geriatrics, University of Bern, Spital Bern Ziegler, Morillonstrasse 75 91, CH 3001 Bern, Switzerland
BMC Med Res Methodol 7:1. 2007..Health risk appraisal is a promising method for health promotion and prevention in older persons. The Health Risk Appraisal for the Elderly (HRA-E) developed in the U.S. has unique features but has not been tested outside the United States...- The PRO-AGE study: an international randomised controlled study of health risk appraisal for older persons based in general practiceAndreas E Stuck
University Department of Geriatrics, Spital Bern Ziegler, Morillonstrasse 75 91, CH 3001 Bern, Switzerland
BMC Med Res Methodol 7:2. 2007..This paper describes the study protocol, the recruitment, and base-line data for evaluating the success of randomisation of the PRO-AGE (PRevention in Older people-Assessment in GEneralists' practices) project... 
The relationship between pain intensity and severity and depression in older people: exploratory studySteve Iliffe
Department of Primary Care and Population Sciences, University College London, London, UK
BMC Fam Pract 10:54. 2009..In addition we explored whether other potentially modifiable factors might increase the risk of depressed mood in these persons...- The older persons' assessment and liaison team 'OPAL': evaluation of comprehensive geriatric assessment in acute medical inpatientsD Harari
Department of Ageing and Health, Guys and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust, UK
Age Ageing 36:670-5. 2007..Reducing hospital length of stay (LOS) in older acute medical inpatients is a key productivity measure. Evidence-based predictors of greater LOS may be targeted through Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA)... - New-onset fecal incontinence after stroke: prevalence, natural history, risk factors, and impactDanielle Harari
Department of Healthcare of the Elderly, Guy s and St Thomas Hospitals Trust, London, UK
Stroke 34:144-50. 2003..The purpose of this study was to describe the prevalence, natural history, associations, and impact of new-onset FI after stroke... - Treatment of constipation and fecal incontinence in stroke patients: randomized controlled trialDanielle Harari
Department of Aging and Health, St Thomas Hospital, 9th Floor, North Wing, Lambeth Palace Rd, London SE1 7EH, UK
Stroke 35:2549-55. 2004..This is the first randomized controlled trial to evaluate treatment of constipation and fecal incontinence in stroke survivors... - Proactive care of older people undergoing surgery ('POPS'): designing, embedding, evaluating and funding a comprehensive geriatric assessment service for older elective surgical patientsDanielle Harari
Department of Ageing and Health, St Thomas Hospital, 9th Floor, North Wing, Lambeth Palace Road, London SE1 7EH, UK
Age Ageing 36:190-6. 2007..older people undergoing elective surgery have significant post-operative problems prolonging hospitalisation... - Health risk appraisal in older people 1: are older people living alone an "at-risk" group?Kalpa Kharicha
Department of Primary Care and Population Sciences, University College London, Hampstead Campus, Rowland Hill Street, London, UK
Br J Gen Pract 57:271-6. 2007..Attention is turning to interventions targeted at 'at-risk' groups. Living alone in later life is seen as a potential health risk, and older people living alone are thought to be an at-risk group worthy of further intervention... - Health risk appraisal for older people in general practice using an expert system: a pilot studyS Iliffe
Department of Primary Care and Population Sciences, Royal Free and University College London Medical School, London, UK
Health Soc Care Community 13:21-9. 2005..These findings have informed a wider exploratory study in general practice... - Health risk appraisal in older people 3: prevalence, impact, and context of pain and their implications for GPsClaudia Carmaciu
Department of Primary Care and Population Sciences, University College London, London, UK
Br J Gen Pract 57:630-5. 2007..Pain is a common experience in later life. There is conflicting evidence of the prevalence, impact, and context of pain in older people. GPs are criticised for underestimating and under-treating pain... - User involvement in the development of a health promotion technology for older people: findings from the SWISH projectS Iliffe
Department of Primary Care and Population Health, University College London, London, UK
Health Soc Care Community 18:147-59. 2010..Modified with the addition of social domains, the HRAO technology could be a suitable tool to achieve current policy objectives... - The impact of educational level on oral health-related quality of life in older people in LondonGeorgios Tsakos
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, UCL Medical School, London, UK
Eur J Oral Sci 117:286-92. 2009..Policies targeting lower educated groups should be complemented with whole-population strategies for the reduction of oral health inequalities... - Intermediate care--where are we now?Danielle Harari
King s College London, and Elderly Care Unit, Guy s and St Thomas Hospital
Clin Med 2:477-9. 2002 - Health risk appraisal in older people 2: the implications for clinicians and commissioners of social isolation risk in older peopleSteve Iliffe
Department of Primary Care and Population Sciences, University College London, Hampstead Campus, Rowland Hill Street, London, UK
Br J Gen Pract 57:277-82. 2007..Social isolation is associated with poorer health, and is seen by the World Health Organisation (WHO) as one of the major issues facing the industrialised world... - Fear of falling limiting activity in young-old women is associated with reduced functional mobility rather than psychological factorsFinbarr C Martin
Guy s and St Thomas Hospital, Lambeth Palace Road, London, UK
Age Ageing 34:281-7. 2005..This is sometimes associated with activity limitation, with potential adverse health implications. The explanatory contributions of physical and psychosocial factors to this syndrome are unclear... - Management of fecal incontinence in adultsC Norton
King s College London, Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery, London, UK
Neurourol Urodyn 29:199-206. 2010..The article summarises the evidence and recommendations from the committee for clinical practice and future research... - Self-reported visual function in healthy older people in Britain: an exploratory study of associations with age, sex, depression, education and incomeSteve Iliffe
Department of Primary Care and Population Sciences, Royal Free and UCL Medical School, Hampstead Campus, London NW3 2PF, UK
Fam Pract 22:585-90. 2005..Measurement of visual acuity is unlikely to be helpful in identifying this impairment, but targeted assessment of visual function may be beneficial. There is uncertainty about the defining characteristics of the target group... - Predicting the risk of hospital admission in older persons--validation of a brief self-administered questionnaire in three European countriesJan T Wagner
Department of Geriatrics, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
J Am Geriatr Soc 54:1271-6. 2006..The Pra is likely of high interest to governments and health insurance companies worldwide as a basis for programs aimed at health risk management in older persons...