Canadian Medical Association Journal / Journal de l'Association médicale canadienne October 15, 1997 / Le 15 octobre 1997 CMAJ 1997; 157 (8) © 1997 Canadian Medical Association / Association médicale canadienne

Global Theme Issue on Aging

In this issue · Dans ce numéro 1001 1003 Editor's preface Mot du rédacteur en chef 1007 News and analysis · Nouvelles et analyses Appetite suppressants withdrawn MDs the key to better pain management Task force to study impact of hospital closures on MDs Traditional meets modern in Malawi eye program Hypertensive crisis on tap? BC appeals court decision on billing numbers Warning issued on test kits Winnipeg centre created to study aging, prepare for problems Brain waves for ultrasound therapy Parkinson disease gene leads to other clues Genital mutilation may raise awkward issues of MDs after birth 1015 Letters · Correspondance [Instructions to correspondents / Directives aux correspondants] Fitness to drive and the onus to report, P.J. Potter Vets uncowed by fee article fees, K.L. Mould What's in a name?, W.B. Houston Migraine research methods, H. Fisher; response: M.J. Gawel, W.E.M. Pryse-Phillips Alcohol left out of health promotion for young people?, P.D. McCarthy & P. McCarthy; response: J.W. Mackie Ruling out spinal fractures in trauma, R.D. Dewar Terfenadine and SSRIs, G. Tafler For calcium, pick milk over marketing, T. Anderson Questioning tests for AMI, T.O. Cheng; response: J. Hoey The placebo effect, S.M.H. Alibhai; C. Weijer   Growing old in Canada · Vieillir au Canada 1025 The health of Canada's elderly population: current status and future implications, M.W. Rosenberg, E.G. Moore [full text / résumé]   Body and mind · Corps et esprit 1037 Functional decline in old age, R. Hébert [full text / résumé] 1047 Alzheimer's disease: current knowledge, management and research, S. Gauthier, M. Panisset, J. Nalbantoglu, J. Poirier [full text / résumé] 1055 Depression in elderly medical inpatients: a meta-analysis of outcomes, M.G. Cole, F. Bellavance [abstract / résumé] 1061 Pharmacologic treatment of depression in late life, A.J. Flint [full text / résumé] 1071 Revisiting the O complex: urinary incontinence, delirium and polypharmacy in elderly patients, D.B. Hogan [full text / résumé] 1081 Medical management of frailty: confessions of a gnostic, K. Rockwood [full text / résumé]   Soul · Reflets de l'âme 1087 My brilliant career, L. E. Sutherland 1091 Journeys through our health care system: the lives my parents live, N. Yurkovich [abstract / en bref]   Society · Société 1095 Detecting and managing elder abuse: challenges in primary care, P. Krueger, C. Patterson, for the Research Subcommittee of the Elder Abuse and Self-Neglect Task Force of Hamilton­Wentworth [full text / résumé] 1101 Caring for elderly people at home: the consequences to caregivers, E. Grunfeld, R. Glossop, I. McDowell, C. Danbrook [full text / résumé] 1107 Promoting the health of senior citizens, C. Patterson, J. Feightner [full text / résumé] 1116 Care for Canada's frail elderly population: Fragmentation or integration?, H. Bergman, F. Béland, P. Lebel, A.-P. Contandriopoulos, P. Tousignant, Y. Brunelle, T. Kaufman, E. Leibovich, R. Rodriguez, M. Clarfield [full text / résumé] 1123 Are we in store for some intergenerational warfare?, C. Gray [full text] 1179 Deaths · Nécrologie   Pulse · Médicogramme 1180 Specialists are getting older; working longer / Les spécialistes vieillisssent, et travaillent plus longtemps 1127 On_the_Net@cma.ca · Sur_le_Net@cma.ca Resources · Ressources 1129 Conferences · Conférences 1137 Advertisers' index · Index des annonceurs 1137 Prescribing index · Index de l'information sur les ordonnances 1168 Classified advertising · Annonces classées   ISSN 0820-3946 157 (8) 997-1180 (1997)