Contents
Geriatrics and Gerontolog y International Volume 18 Issue 8, August 2018
EPIDEMIOLOGY, CLINICAL PRACTICE
AND HEALTH
Effectiveness of weekend physical rehabilitation for functional
recovery in geriatric patients with hip fracture1143
K Hasebe et al.
Physiological and psychological effects of gardening activity inolder adults
1147
A Hassan et al.
Role of autonomic nervous activity, as measured by heart ratevariability, on the effect of mortality in disabled older adults
with low blood pressure in long-term care1153
K Shibasaki et al.
Prevalence, risk factors and adverse outcomes of anticholinergic burdenin patients with advanced chronic conditions at hospital admission
1159
D Sevilla-Sánchez et al.
Impairment in toileting behavior after a stroke1166
E Kawanabe et al.
Importance of frailty evaluation in the prediction of the prognosis ofpatients with chronic subdural hematoma
1173
K Shimizu et al.
Path analysis of caregiver characteristics and neuropsychiatric
symptoms in Alzheimer’s disease patients1177
LL Delfino et al.
Risk factors for nursing- and healthcare-associated urinary tract infection1183
K Sugishita et al.
Association of fall history with the Timed Up and Go test score
and the dual task cost: A cross-sectional study among independentcommunity-dwelling older adults
1189
T Asai et al.
Functional and clinical outcomes of patients aged younger andolder than 85 years after rehabilitation post-hip fracture surgery
in a co-managed orthogeriatric unit
1194
P Mazzola et al.
Frailty phenotype and its association with all-cause mortality incommunity-dwelling Norwegian women and men aged 70 years
and older: The Tromsø Study 2001–2016
1200
PL Langholz et al.
Effects of knee taping during functional activities in older people
with knee osteoarthritis: A randomized controlled clinical trial
1206
K-n Park and S-h Kim
Emergency surgery in octogenarians: Outcomes and factors
affecting mortality in the general hospital setting
1211
JC Bolger et al.
Use of proton pump inhibitors is associated with increased
mortality due to nosocomial pneumonia in bedridden patients
receiving tube feeding
1215
K Hamai et al.
Factors associated with discontinuing or not starting oral
anticoagulant therapy in older hospitalized patients withnon-valvular atrial fibrillation
1219
J Díez-Manglano et al.
Postural sway normative data across the adult lifespan: Resultsfrom 6280 individuals on the Balance Tracking System balance test
1225
DJ Goble and HS Baweja
Assessment of aspiration pneumonia using the Anticholinergic
Risk Scale
1230
E Kose et al.
Factors affecting the appetites of persons with Alzheimer’s disease
and mild cognitive impairment
1236
S Suma et al.
Less than one-third of hip fracture patients return to their prefracturelevel of instrumental activities of daily living in a prospective cohortstudy of 480 patients
1244
S Moerman et al.

Sex-specific associations between smoking habits and reaching
longevity: Netherlands Cohort Study
L Brandts and PA van den Brandt

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BEHAVIORAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
Factors that promote new or continuous participation in socialgroup activity among Japanese community-dwelling older adults:
A 2-year longitudinal study
1259
Y Nemoto et al.

SOCIAL RESEARCH, PLANNING
AND PRACTICE
Risk factors for falls in terms of attention during gait incommunity-dwelling older adults
T Inoue et al.
Potentially avoidable hospitalizations, non-potentially avoidable
hospitalizations and in-hospital deaths among residents oflong-term care facilities
B Jeon et al.

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BIOLOGY
Prevalence of and factors associated with successful aging in Brazilian
older adults: Frailty in Brazilian older people Study (FIBRA RJ)
1280
AC Canêdo et al.
Telomere shortening and frailty in Mexican older adults
1286
M Ortiz-Ramírez et al.

METHODOLOGICAL REPORTEuropean repository of explicit criteria of potentially inappropriate
medications in old age
I Ivanova et al.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITORCASE REPORTS
Trial of activity with a human-shaped robot for care recipients
E Takano et al.
Ventricular tachycardia: An electrocardiographic artifact inducedby tremors
A Charpin et al.
Striatal hand in an elderly man with disseminated tuberculosis:
An unusual first case
R Gaude et al.

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RESEARCH STUDIES
Prevention of accidental deaths among people with dementia
missing in the community in Japan
1301
T Saito et al.
Correlation between regional cerebral blood flow and bodycomposition in healthy older women: A single-photon emissioncomputed tomography study
1303
C Fujisawa et al.
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
1304
L Masotti et al.

COMMENTSPart II Comments on: Improving physical fitness and health statusperception in community-dwelling older adults through a structured
program for physical activity promotion in the city of Naples, Italy:
A randomized controlled trial
1306
J Padulo et al.
Causal inference from an observational study of geriatricrehabilitation pharmacotherapy
1307
R Momosaki et al.