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  1. Ambient air pollution and risk of incident dementia in older men living in a region with relatively low concentrations of pollutants: The Health in Men Study
  2. Wishing to die or self-harm after stroke: A planned secondary analysis of the AFFINITY Randomised Controlled Trial
  3. Australian older adults' views on using social media for reducing social isolation and loneliness in hearing impaired older adults: A community conversation
  4. Validation of the Good Spirit, Good Life quality‐of‐life tool for older Aboriginal Australians
  5. Lithium and Stroke Recovery: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Stroke Models in Rodents and Human Data
  6. New methods are required to replace surveys of older people for dementia
  7. Cognitive Impairment After Stroke and Treatment With Fluoxetine: A Planned Analysis of the AFFINITY Randomized Controlled Trial
  8. Patient Controlled Analgesia and its effect on postoperative outcomes in an older cohort of patients undergoing orthopaedic procedures: A retrospective observational study
  9. Evolution of trauma care and the trauma registry in the West Australian health system
  10. Measures Associated With Early, Late, and Persistent Clinically Significant Symptoms of Depression 1 Year After Stroke in the AFFINITY Trial
  11. Pattern of prescription of psychotropics (antipsychotics, antidepressants and benzodiazepines) in Western Australian residential aged care facilities
  12. Efficacy of Probucol on cognitive function in Alzheimer’s disease: Study protocol for a double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomised phase II trial (PIA Study)
  13. Aged care staff perceptions of an online training program for responsive behaviours of residents with dementia
  14. Why is the use of inappropriate medicines so high in Aboriginal Australians?
  15. Associations of Osteocalcin Forms With Metabolic Syndrome and Its Individual Components in Older Men: The Health In Men Study
  16. Long-term exposure to outdoor air pollution and risk factors for cardiovascular disease within a cohort of older men in Perth
  17. Depression and the Risk of Fractures in Later Life: the Health In Men Cohort Study
  18. Why is it so hard to organise healthcare for older people in residential aged care facilities in Australia?
  19. Development of a Toolkit to support sustainable culture change in residential aged care
  20. Erratum to: Screening for and Managing the Person with Frailty in Primary Care: ICFSR Consensus Guidelines
  21. Hearing aids to support cognitive functions of older adults at risk of dementia: the HearCog trial- clinical protocols
  22. Self-reported health and older Aboriginal Australians – healing, balance, connection, and inner spirit are important learnings for all of us
  23. Preventing depression among older people living in rural areas: A randomised controlled trial of behavioural activation in collaborative care
  24. Sociodemographic, lifestyle and medical influences on serum testosterone and sex hormone–binding globulin in men from UK Biobank
  25. U-Shaped Relationship of Leukocyte Telomere Length With All-Cause and Cancer-Related Mortality in Older Men
  26. Safety and efficacy of fluoxetine on functional outcome after acute stroke (AFFINITY): a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial
  27. Optimisation of medications used in residential aged care facilities: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials
  28. Androgens In Men Study (AIMS): protocol for meta-analyses of individual participant data investigating associations of androgens with health outcomes in men
  29. Perspectives of older adults regarding barriers and enablers to engaging in fall prevention activities after hospital discharge
  30. Let’s CHAT (community health approaches to) dementia in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities: protocol for a stepped wedge cluster randomised controlled trial
  31. U-Shaped Association of Plasma Testosterone, and no Association of Plasma Estradiol, with Incidence of Fractures in Men
  32. The Well-Being of Carers of Older Aboriginal People Living in the Kimberley Region of Remote Western Australia: Empowerment, Depression, and Carer Burden
  33. Dementia in LATE Life – Where to from here?
  34. Osteocalcin and its forms across the lifespan in adult men
  35. Associations of plasma IGF1, IGFBP3 and estradiol with leucocyte telomere length, a marker of biological age, in men
  36. Brain frailty and small vessel disease for stroke outcome prediction
  37. General practitioners’ perceptions of their communication with Australian Aboriginal patients with acquired neurogenic communication disorders
  38. A mixed methods process evaluation of a person-centred falls prevention program
  39. “You felt like a prisoner in your own self, trapped”: the experiences of Aboriginal people with acquired communication disorders
  40. A screening tool for acquired communication disorders in Aboriginal Australians after brain injury: lessons learned from the pilot phase
  41. The Healthy Heart‐Mind Trial: Randomized Controlled Trial of Melatonin for Prevention of Delirium
  42. Physical Frailty: ICFSR International Clinical Practice Guidelines for Identification and Management
  43. Behavioural activation in nursing homes to treat depression (BAN-Dep): study protocol for a pragmatic randomised controlled trial
  44. Depression, antidepressants and the risk of cardiovascular events and death in older men
  45. Assessment, incidence and factors associated with urinary incontinence in older Aboriginal Australians
  46. Neither Hormonal Factors Nor AGEs Explain Lower Prostate Cancer Risk in Older Men With Diabetes Mellitus
  47. Multifactorial falls prevention programmes for older adults presenting to the emergency department with a fall: systematic review and meta-analysis
  48. ‘I’ve got to row the boat on my own, more or less’: aboriginal australian experiences of traumatic brain injury
  49. Evaluation of Tailored Falls Education on Older Adults' Behavior Following Hospitalization
  50. Long-term Exposure to Low Air Pollutant Concentrations and the Relationship with All-Cause Mortality and Stroke in Older Men
  51. Potentially suboptimal prescribing of medicines for older Aboriginal Australians in remote areas
  52. Differential associations of ferritin and 25‐hydroxyvitamin D with fasting glucose and diabetes risk in community dwelling older men
  53. Evaluation of RESPOND, a patient-centred program to prevent falls in older people presenting to the emergency department with a fall: A randomised controlled trial
  54. The associations of anthropometric, behavioural and sociodemographic factors with circulating concentrations of IGF‐I, IGF‐II, IGFBP‐1, IGFBP‐2 and IGFBP‐3 in a pooled analysis of 16,024 men from 22 studies
  55. The longitudinal association between natural outdoor environments and mortality in 9218 older men from Perth, Western Australia
  56. High‐Sensitivity Cardiac Troponin I Improves Cardiovascular Risk Prediction in Older Men: HIMS (The Health in Men Study)
  57. Apathy and depressive symptoms in older people and incident myocardial infarction, stroke, and mortality: a systematic review and meta-analysis of individual participant data [Erratum]
  58. Vitamin D and the endocrinology of ageing
  59. When is Alzheimer’s not dementia—Cochrane commentary on The National Institute on Ageing and Alzheimer’s Association Research Framework for Alzheimer’s Disease
  60. Vitamin D
  61. Falls After Hospital Discharge: A Randomized Clinical Trial of Individualized Multimodal Falls Prevention Education
  62. Cross-sectional associations of sex hormones with leucocyte telomere length, a marker of biological age, in a community-based cohort of older men
  63. A Collaborative Analysis of Individual Participant Data from 19 Prospective Studies Assesses Circulating Vitamin D and Prostate Cancer Risk
  64. The National Institute on Aging and Alzheimer's Association research framework: A commentary from the Cochrane Dementia and Cognitive Improvement Group
  65. Impact of a prudent lifestyle on the clinical outcomes of older men with bipolar disorder
  66. Higher circulating androgens and higher physical activity levels are associated with less central adiposity and lower risk of cardiovascular death in older men
  67. Older men with bipolar disorder diagnosed in early and later life: Physical health morbidity and general hospital service use
  68. Sex hormones and incident dementia in older men: The health in men study
  69. Hearing loss and incident psychosis in later life: The Health in Men Study (HIMS)
  70. International Clinical Practice Guidelines for Sarcopenia (ICFSR): Screening, Diagnosis and Management
  71. Low Free Testosterone and Prostate Cancer Risk: A Collaborative Analysis of 20 Prospective Studies
  72. Missing Voices: Profile, Extent, and 12-Month Outcomes of Nonfatal Traumatic Brain Injury in Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal Adults in Western Australia Using Linked Administrative Records
  73. Response to Letter to the Editor: “Advanced Glycation End Products and esRAGE Are Associated With Bone Turnover and Incidence of Hip Fracture in Older Men”
  74. Substance use among older adults with bipolar disorder varies according to age at first treatment contact
  75. Advanced Glycation End Products and esRAGE Are Associated With Bone Turnover and Incidence of Hip Fracture in Older Men
  76. Older men with bipolar disorder: Clinical associations with early and late onset illness
  77. Psychological therapies for depression in older adults residing in long-term care settings
  78. Hearing loss and the risk of dementia in later life
  79. Precision Medicine: The Future Management of Geriatric Conditions
  80. Subclinical thyroid dysfunction and circulating thyroid hormones are not associated with bone turnover markers or incident hip fracture in older men
  81. Mortality in a cohort of remote-living Aboriginal Australians and associated factors
  82. Apathy and depressive symptoms in older people and incident myocardial infarction, stroke, and mortality: a systematic review and meta-analysis of individual participant data
  83. Impact of tailored falls prevention education for older adults at hospital discharge on engagement in falls prevention strategies postdischarge: protocol for a process evaluation
  84. The Australian Aged Care and Its Implications for the Korean Aging Crisis
  85. Reducing falls in older adults recently discharged from hospital: a systematic review and meta-analysis
  86. Risk of dementia associated with psychotic disorders in later life: the health in men study (HIMS)
  87. Plasma free thyroxine in the upper quartile is associated with an increased incidence of major cardiovascular events in older men that do not have thyroid dysfunction according to conventional criteria
  88. Involving Primary Care Health Professionals in Geriatric Assessment
  89. HBA1C IS ASSOCIATED WITH FRAILTY IN A GROUP OF ABORIGINAL AUSTRALIANS
  90. Body Mass Index and Vascular Disease in Men Aged 65 Years and Over: HIMS (Health In Men Study)
  91. 18F PET with florbetapir for the early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease dementia and other dementias in people with mild cognitive impairment (MCI)
  92. 18F PET with florbetaben for the early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease dementia and other dementias in people with mild cognitive impairment (MCI)
  93. 18F PET with flutemetamol for the early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease dementia and other dementias in people with mild cognitive impairment (MCI)
  94. Higher IGFBP3 is associated with increased incidence of colorectal cancer in older men independently of IGF1
  95. Using Evidence to Guide the Diagnosis and Management of People With Dementia
  96. Progressive impairment of testicular endocrine function in ageing men: Testosterone and dihydrotestosterone decrease, and luteinizing hormone increases, in men transitioning from the 8th to 9th decades of life
  97. A randomized controlled trial of physical activity with individual goal-setting and volunteer mentors to overcome sedentary lifestyle in older adults at risk of cognitive decline: the INDIGO trial protocol
  98. Risk of prevalent and incident dementia associated with insulin-like growth factor and insulin-like growth factor-binding protein 3
  99. Longevity Klotho gene polymorphism and the risk of dementia in older men
  100. The Asia-Pacific Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Management of Frailty
  101. Systolic Blood Pressure and Vascular Disease in Men Aged 65 Years and Over
  102. Depression as a modifiable factor to decrease the risk of dementia
  103. Effectiveness of falls prevention interventions for older adults newly discharged from hospital: a systematic review protocol
  104. Higher Dihydrotestosterone Is Associated with the Incidence of Lung Cancer in Older Men
  105. Development of the Aboriginal Communication Assessment After Brain Injury (ACAABI): A screening tool for identifying acquired communication disorders in Aboriginal Australians
  106. Bone turnover markers: Defining a therapeutic target
  107. Cochrane Dementia Group Turns 21—Older and (Slightly) Wiser
  108. Reducing falls after hospital discharge: a protocol for a randomised controlled trial evaluating an individualised multimodal falls education programme for older adults
  109. Depression Among Nonfrail Old Men Is Associated With Reduced Physical Function and Functional Capacity After 9 Years Follow-up: The Health in Men Cohort Study
  110. ‘It promoted a positive culture around falls prevention’: staff response to a patient education programme—a qualitative evaluation
  111. Suicide in older men: The health in men cohort study (HIMS)
  112. Higher thyrotropin concentration is associated with increased incidence of colorectal cancer in older men
  113. Profile of diabetes in men aged 79-97 years: the Western Australian Health in Men Study
  114. The clinical value of fluid biomarkers for dementia diagnosis
  115. Aerobic exercise
  116. Evidence-based occupational therapy for people with dementia and their families: What clinical practice guidelines tell us and implications for practice
  117. Reducing depression during the menopausal transition with health coaching: Results from the healthy menopausal transition randomised controlled trial
  118. Affective Disorders, Psychosis and Dementia in a Community Sample of Older Men with and without Parkinson’s Disease
  119. Falls risk assessment outcomes and factors associated with falls for older Indigenous Australians
  120. Assessing people with dementia: the role of the aged care assessment team and memory clinics
  121. Plasma ferritin concentrations are not associated with abdominal aortic aneurysm diagnosis, size or growth
  122. Risk of dementia and death in community-dwelling older men with bipolar disorder
  123. Reference Ranges for Thyroid-Stimulating Hormone and Free Thyroxine in Older Men: Results From the Health In Men Study
  124. ‘My independent streak may get in the way’: how older adults respond to falls prevention education in hospital
  125. Depressive symptoms in midlife: the role of reproductive stage
  126. 18F PET ligands for the early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease dementia and other dementias in people with mild cognitive impairment (MCI)
  127. A Human Variant of Glucose-Regulated Protein 94 That Inefficiently Supports IGF Production
  128. Prevalence and incidence of frailty in Aboriginal Australians, and associations with mortality and disability
  129. Timely Diagnosis for Dementia: The Need for Specialists
  130. Duration of diabetes and its association with depression in later life: The Health In Men Study (HIMS)
  131. Clinical practice guidelines for dementia in Australia
  132. Deprescribing in Frail Older People: A Randomised Controlled Trial
  133. Prospective longitudinal study of testosterone and incident depression in older men: The Health In Men Study
  134. The Healthy Heart-Mind trial: melatonin for prevention of delirium following cardiac surgery: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
  135. Missing voices: Profile and extent of acquired communication disorders in Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal adult stroke survivors in Western Australia using linked administrative records
  136. Excessive alcohol consumption increases mortality in later life: a genetic analysis of the health in men cohort study
  137. Educators’ perspectives about how older hospital patients can engage in a falls prevention education programme: a qualitative process evaluation
  138. Hypovitaminosis D and frailty: Epiphenomenon or causal?
  139. Physical activity and vascular disease in a prospective cohort study of older men: The Health In Men Study (HIMS)
  140. What can we learn about dementia from research in Indigenous populations?
  141. Proportion of Undercarboxylated Osteocalcin and Serum P1NP Predict Incidence of Myocardial Infarction in Older Men
  142. Age-specific population centiles for androgen status in men
  143. Depression as a risk factor for cognitive impairment in later life: the Health In Men cohort study
  144. The KICA Carer: informant information to enhance the Kimberley Indigenous Cognitive Assessment
  145. Insulin Resistance and Depressive Symptoms in Older Men: The Health in Men Study
  146. Association between the Advanced Glycosylation End Product-Specific Receptor Gene and Cardiovascular Death in Older Men
  147. Study Protocol: Missing Voices – Communication Difficulties after Stroke and Traumatic Brain Injury in Aboriginal Australians
  148. Fall rates in hospital rehabilitation units after individualised patient and staff education programmes: a pragmatic, stepped-wedge, cluster-randomised controlled trial
  149. Incidence and predictors of cognitive impairment and dementia in Aboriginal Australians: A follow‐up study of 5 years
  150. How Many Older People Are Frail? Using Multiple Imputation to Investigate Frailty in the Population
  151. Impact of Tai-Chi on Falls Among Preclinically Disabled Older People. A Randomized Controlled Trial
  152. Vitamin D concentration and its association with past, current and future depression in older men: The Health In Men Study
  153. Comparison of anthropometric measures as predictors of cancer incidence: A pooled collaborative analysis of 11 Australian cohorts
  154. Depression, Frailty, and All-Cause Mortality: A Cohort Study of Men Older than 75 Years
  155. The PACE Study: A Randomized Clinical Trial of Cognitive Activity Strategy Training for Older People with Mild Cognitive Impairment
  156. Ageing on Hammond Island: Is there cause for concern in the Torres Strait?
  157. Diabetes, Myocardial Infarction and Stroke Are Distinct and Duration-Dependent Predictors of Subsequent Cardiovascular Events and All-Cause Mortality in Older Men
  158. Association of Depression with Sexual and Daily Activities: A Community Study of Octogenarian Men
  159. Reported amount of salt added to food is associated with increased all-cause and cancer-related mortality in older men in a prospective cohort study
  160. Prevalence, associated factors, mood and cognitive outcomes of traumatic brain injury in later life: the health in men study (HIMS)
  161. Systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized placebo-controlled trials of folate and vitamin B12 for depression
  162. Resident-to-resident physical aggression leading to injury in nursing homes: a systematic review
  163. Higher Serum Undercarboxylated Osteocalcin and Other Bone Turnover Markers Are Associated With Reduced Diabetes Risk and Lower Estradiol Concentrations in Older Men
  164. Corrigendum to “Hospital costs associated with depression in a cohort of older men living in Western Australia” [General Hospital Psychiatry 36 (2014) 33–37]
  165. In Older Men, Higher Plasma Testosterone or Dihydrotestosterone Is an Independent Predictor for Reduced Incidence of Stroke but Not Myocardial Infarction
  166. B vitamins to enhance treatment response to antidepressants in middle-aged and older adults: results from the B-VITAGE randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial
  167. RESPOND: a patient-centred programme to prevent secondary falls in older people presenting to the emergency department with a fall—protocol for a mixed methods programme evaluation
  168. Mortality among People with Severe Mental Disorders Who Reach Old Age: A Longitudinal Study of a Community-Representative Sample of 37892 Men
  169. Grey Matter Changes Associated with Deficit Awareness in Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Voxel-Based Morphometry Study
  170. Depression, dementia and cognition in older people
  171. Propositional idea density in older men’s written language: Findings from the HIMS study using computerised analysis
  172. Reducing depression during the menopausal transition: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial
  173. RAndomised controlled trial to imProve depressIon and the quality of life of people with Dementia using cognitive bias modification: RAPID study protocol
  174. Reported High Salt Intake Is Associated with Increased Prevalence of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm and Larger Aortic Diameter in Older Men
  175. Association between alcohol and cardiovascular disease: Mendelian randomisation analysis based on individual participant data
  176. RESPOND—a patient-centred programme to prevent secondary falls in older people presenting to the emergency department with a fall: protocol for a multicentre randomised controlled trial
  177. In Older Men, Lower Plasma 25-Hydroxyvitamin D Is Associated with Reduced Incidence of Prostate, but Not Colorectal or Lung Cancer
  178. Reporting standards for studies of diagnostic test accuracy in dementia: The STARDdem Initiative
  179. Plasma and cerebrospinal fluid amyloid beta for the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease dementia and other dementias in people with mild cognitive impairment (MCI)
  180. Angiogenesis inhibition and depression in older men
  181. Hormones and Cardiovascular Disease in Older Men
  182. The Kimberley Assessment of Depression of Older Indigenous Australians: Prevalence of Depressive Disorders, Risk Factors and Validation of the KICA-dep Scale
  183. Plasma Angiopoietin-1 Is Lower After Ischemic Stroke and Associated With Major Disability But Not Stroke Incidence
  184. Exercise is medicine, for the body and the brain
  185. Understanding diagnosis and management of dementia and guideline implementation in general practice: a qualitative study using the theoretical domains framework
  186. Alcohol consumption and cognitive impairment in older men: A mendelian randomization study
  187. In Older Men an Optimal Plasma Testosterone Is Associated With Reduced All-Cause Mortality and Higher Dihydrotestosterone With Reduced Ischemic Heart Disease Mortality, While Estradiol Levels Do Not Predict Mortality
  188. A stepped-wedge cluster randomised controlled trial for evaluating rates of falls among inpatients in aged care rehabilitation units receiving tailored multimedia education in addition to usual care: a trial protocol
  189. Hospital costs associated with depression in a cohort of older men living in Western Australia
  190. Validity of Self-Reported versus Hospital-Coded Diagnosis of Stroke: A Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Study
  191. A risk table to assist health practitioners assess and prevent the onset of depression in later life
  192. e-ageing: Development and evaluation of a flexible online geriatric medicine educational resource for diverse learners
  193. Hip fractures among Indigenous Western Australians from 1999 to 2009
  194. The FABS trial: A randomised control trial of the effects of a 6-month physical activity intervention on adherence and long-term physical activity and self-efficacy in older adults with memory complaints
  195. Homocysteine, depression and cognitive function in older adults
  196. Dietary patterns as predictors of successful ageing
  197. Advances in research, education and practice in geriatric medicine, 1982-2012
  198. The triangular association of ADH1B genetic polymorphism, alcohol consumption and the risk of depression in older men
  199. 150 minutes of vigorous physical activity per week predicts survival and successful ageing: a population-based 11-year longitudinal study of 12 201 older Australian men
  200. HDL cholesterol and the risk of depression over 5 years
  201. Low Vitamin D Status Is an Independent Predictor of Increased Frailty and All-Cause Mortality in Older Men: The Health in Men Study
  202. Brain and mood changes over 2 years in healthy controls and adults with heart failure and ischaemic heart disease
  203. Plasma total homocysteine is associated with abdominal aortic aneurysm and aortic diameter in older men
  204. Social connectedness and predictors of successful ageing
  205. Higher free thyroxine levels are associated with all-cause mortality in euthyroid older men: the Health In Men Study
  206. ACTIVEDEP: a randomised, controlled trial of a home-based exercise intervention to alleviate depression in middle-aged and older adults
  207. Diabetes and ageing in the Melbourne Collaborative Cohort Study (MCCS)
  208. Is Hypovitaminosis D Associated with Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm, and is There a Dose–response Relationship?
  209. Lower plasma testosterone or dihydrotestosterone, but not estradiol, is associated with symptoms of intermittent claudication in older men
  210. Peripheral arterial disease increases the risk of subsequent hip fracture in older men: the Health in Men Study
  211. Homocysteine, Frailty, and All-Cause Mortality in Older Men: The Health in Men Study