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Cumulative anticholinergic exposure is associated with poor memory and executive function in older menLing Han
Department of Internal Medicine, Program on Aging, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 56:2203-10. 2008..To examine the longitudinal relationship between cumulative exposure to anticholinergic medications and memory and executive function in older men...
Dynamics of functional aging based on latent-class trajectories of activities of daily livingLing Han
Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
Ann Epidemiol 23:87-92. 2013..This study sought to identify and characterize major patterns of functional aging based on activities of daily living (ADL)...- Antidepressant use and cognitive functioning in older medical patients with major or minor depression: a prospective cohort study with database linkageLing Han
Department of Internal Medicine and Program on Aging, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA
J Clin Psychopharmacol 31:429-35. 2011..The objective of this study is to examine this relationship in older medical patients with different depression diagnoses... - 12-month cognitive outcomes of major and minor depression in older medical patientsLing Han
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
Am J Geriatr Psychiatry 16:742-51. 2008..To examine the temporal relationship between depression diagnoses and cognitive function in older medical patients... - Factors associated with recovery of prehospital function among older persons admitted to a nursing home with disability after an acute hospitalizationThomas M Gill
Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, Dorothy Adler Geriatric Assessment Center, 20 York Street, New Haven, CT 06504, USA
J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 64:1296-303. 2009..The objective of this study was to identify the factors associated with recovery of prehospital function among older persons admitted to a nursing home with disability after an acute hospitalization... - Risk factors and precipitants of long-term disability in community mobility: a cohort study of older personsThomas M Gill
Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06504, USA
Ann Intern Med 156:131-40. 2012..Relatively little is known about why older persons develop long-term disability in community mobility... - Bath aids and the subsequent development of bathing disability in community-living older personsThomas M Gill
Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 55:1757-63. 2007..To determine whether the availability of bath aids may forestall the subsequent development of bathing disability... - Trajectories of disability in the last year of lifeThomas M Gill
Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510, USA
N Engl J Med 362:1173-80. 2010..Despite the importance of functional status to older persons and their families, little is known about the course of disability at the end of life... - Functional trajectories in older persons admitted to a nursing home with disability after an acute hospitalizationThomas M Gill
Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06510, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 57:195-201. 2009..To characterize the functional trajectories of older persons admitted to a nursing home with disability after an acute hospitalization... 
Estimates of active and disabled life expectancy based on different assessment intervalsThomas M Gill
Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06504, USA
J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 60:1013-6. 2005..We performed a prospective cohort study to compare estimates of active and disabled life expectancy based on traditional assessment intervals of 1--2 years with those based on more frequent assessments at 1-month intervals...- Bathing disability and the risk of long-term admission to a nursing homeThomas M Gill
Yale University School of Medicine, Dorothy Adler Geriatric Assessment Center, 20 York Street, New Haven, CT 06504, USA
J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 61:821-5. 2006.... - Antidepressant use and cognitive deficits in older men: addressing confounding by indications with different methodsLing Han
Yale University Internal Medicine Program on Aging, New Haven, CT, USA
Ann Epidemiol 22:9-16. 2012..Antidepressant use has been associated with cognitive impairment in older persons. We sought to examine whether this association might reflect an indication bias... - Predisposing factors and precipitants for bathing disability in older personsThomas M Gill
Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 55:534-40. 2007..To identify potential predisposing factors and precipitants for bathing disability... - The course of delirium in older medical inpatients: a prospective studyJane McCusker
Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Community Studies, St Mary s Hospital, McGill University, 3830 Lacombe Avenue, Montreal, Quebec H3T 1M5, Canada
J Gen Intern Med 18:696-704. 2003.... - The relationship between intervening hospitalizations and transitions between frailty statesThomas M Gill
Adler Geriatric Assessment Center, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06504, USA
J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 66:1238-43. 2011..We performed a prospective longitudinal study to evaluate the relationship between intervening hospitalizations and these transitions... - The temporal relationship between depression symptoms and cognitive functioning in older medical patients--prospective or concurrent?Ling Han
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 61:1319-23. 2006..The objective of this study, using repeated measures over a 12-month period, was to examine the short-term temporal relationship between depressive symptoms and cognitive impairment... - Comparisons between older men and women in the trajectory and burden of disability over the course of nearly 14 yearsThomas M Gill
Yale School of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, New Haven, CT Electronic address
J Am Med Dir Assoc 14:280-6. 2013..To more completely evaluate these gender differences, the current study set out to compare the trajectories and burden of disability over an extended period between older men and women... - Effects of statin use on muscle strength, cognition, and depressive symptoms in older adultsJoseph V Agostini
Clinical Epidemiology Research Center, VA Connecticut Healthcare System, West Haven, Connecticut 06516, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 55:420-5. 2007..To determine the relationship between hydroxymethyl glutaryl coenzyme A reductase inhibitor (statin) use and proximal muscle strength, cognition, and depression in older adults... - The relationship between number of medications and weight loss or impaired balance in older adultsJoseph V Agostini
Clinical Epidemiology Research Center, VA Connecticut Healthcare System, West Haven, Connecticut 06516, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 52:1719-23. 2004..To examine the relationship between cumulative medication exposure and risk of two common manifestations of adverse drug effects: weight loss and impaired balance... - Association between antihypertensive medication use and non-cardiovascular outcomes in older menJoseph V Agostini
Clinical Epidemiology Research Center 151B, VA Connecticut Healthcare System, 950 Campbell Avenue, West Haven, CT, USA
J Gen Intern Med 22:1661-7. 2007.... - Transitions between frailty states among community-living older personsThomas M Gill
Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn 06504, USA
Arch Intern Med 166:418-23. 2006..Little is known about the natural course of frailty. We performed a prospective study to determine the transition rates between frailty states and to evaluate the effect of the preceding frailty state on subsequent frailty transitions... - Symptoms of delirium among elderly medical inpatients with or without dementiaMartin G Cole
Departments of Psychiatry, St. Mary's Hospital, Montreal, Quebec H3T 1M5, Canada
J Neuropsychiatry Clin Neurosci 14:167-75. 2002.... - Modifiable risk factors for nursing home-acquired pneumoniaVincent Quagliarello
Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06520 8022, USA
Clin Infect Dis 40:1-6. 2005..This study sought to identify modifiable risk factors for pneumonia in elderly nursing home residents... - Epidemiology of restricting back pain in community-living older personsUna E Makris
Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
J Am Geriatr Soc 59:610-4. 2011..To estimate the incidence of back pain leading to restricted activity (restricting back pain) in community-living older persons and to characterize its descriptive epidemiology...