Contents
Geriatrics and Gerontolog y International Volume 21 Issue 8, August 2021
COMMISSION REPORT

Toward the development of a vibrant, super-aged society:
The future of medicine and society in JapanK Iijima et al.

SOCIAL RESEARCH, PLANNING AND PRACTICE
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REVIEW ARTICLE

Impact of frailty metabolic phenotypes on the managementof older people with type 2 diabetes mellitus
AH Abdelhafiz et al.

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EPIDEMIOLOGY, CLINICAL PRACTICE
AND HEALTH

Effect of early intensive rehabilitation on the clinical outcomesof patients with acute stroke
K Oyanagi et al.
Characteristics and outcomes of older patients with coronavirus
disease 2019 in JapanK Tanaka et al.
Measuring positive caregiving experiences in family caregiversof nursing home residents: A comparison of the PositiveExperiences Scale, Gain in Alzheimer Care INstrument,
and Positive Aspects of Caregiving questionnaire
HJ A Smaling et al.
Association of regional white matter hyperintensity
volumes with cognitive dysfunction and vascular risk factors
in patients with amnestic mild cognitive impairment
K Hirao et al.
Association of advanced glycation end-products levels with
vascular events in postmenopausal women
T Urano et al.
The relationship between alcohol intake and falls hospitalization:
Results from the EPIC-Norfolk
GJ Tan et al.
Association between social frailty as well as early physicaldysfunction and exercise intolerance among older patients
receiving hemodialysis
N Usui et al.
Ostomy prevalence and survival in elderly patients with stage III
and IV rectal cancer
B Badic et al.
Perioperative changes in physical performance affect short-term
outcome in elderly cardiac surgery patients
T Morisawa et al.
Gait speed and pain status as discriminatory factors for
instrumental activities of daily living disability in older
adults with knee osteoarthritis
K Nanjo et al.

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BIOLOGY

Korean mistletoe (Viscum album var. coloratum) extends thelifespan via FOXO activation induced by dSir2 in Drosophilamelanogaster
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S-H Lee et al.
Taller adult height is associated with better performance of cognitive
trajectories in Chinese over 45 years old: Evidence from the
China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study732
L Luo et al.

LETTERS TO THE EDITORCASE REPORTS
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Utilization of transfer support equipment for meeting with family
members in a nursing home during the COVID-19 pandemic:
A case report
T Yoshimi et al.
Cerebral pathological findings in long-lived patient with Werner
syndrome and dementia
M Kuzuya et al.
Biliary pseudolithiasis in an older patient treated with lascufloxacin
T Nagamine
Clenbuterol poisoning due to a mix-up between clenbuterolhydrochloride and other similarly shaped drug tablets
S Urushidani and A Kuriyama

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RESEARCH STUDIES
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BEHAVIORAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

Clinical features of 65-year-old individuals in Japan diagnosed
with possible sarcopenia based on the Asian Working Group forSarcopenia 2019 criteria
H Miura et al.
Association between frequency of snacking and all-cause
mortality among community-dwelling young-old adults:
An age-specific prospective cohort study
T Kobayashi et al.
Use of the Dementia Assessment Sheet for Community-based
Integrated Care System 21 items among Chinese
community-dwelling older adults
Y Chen et al.

Municipal long-term care workforce supply and in-home deaths
at the end of life: Panel data analysis with a fixed-effectmodel in JapanK Abe et al.
Behavioral and psychological symptoms in institutional residents
with dementia in Taiwan
S-W Hsieh et al.

Agreement on dementia severity levels between the 8-item
and 21-item Dementia Assessment Sheet for Community-based
Integrated Care System
S Mitsutake et al.
Kihon Checklist: Thai version
P Assantachai et al.
The COVID-19 pandemic and organizational resilience as
unanticipated outcome of introducing socially assistive robots
in nursing homes
K Obayashi et al.
Does the COVID-19 pandemic robustly influence the incidenceof frailty?
M Yamada and H Arai

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COMMENTS
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Frailty and health risk in older people
T Kawada
Reply to ``In reference to preoperative serum biomarkers in theprediction of postoperative delirium following abdominal
surgery’’
M Ida et al.
Dementia as a risk factor for aspiration in patients with
COVID-19
H Yoshikawa et al.
Video intervention for end-of-life care
A Guan et al.

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