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Aged HealthLast update: 28 September 2009, I've divided this page into two sections. The first provides you with some tips on searching for material on Medline, and the second provides links to other Australian and overseas web resources, including some full text material. You will find material on mental disorders in old age on my mental health/psychiatry page. Searching MedlineRemember that Medline has a Thesaurus of terms - MeSH (Medical Subject Headings), a controlled vocabulary used for indexing articles in Medline. MeSH terminology provides a consistent way to retrieve information where authors may use different terminology for the same concepts.You will find material on aged health issues in Medline, but you will need to be aware of the thesaurus (MeSH) terms used to search for this group of people. Sometimes you will find the age factor as part of the term - for example Health Services for the Aged, while at others you will need to add the age category to the name of a health problem. One of Medline's great advantages is its list of age groups which you can use when searching. You will find these listed in the Mesh Database. Many topics in MeSH have hierarchies of more specific subcategories or related terms. The indentations in the lists reflect the structure of the hierarchy, and the + signs at the end of terms indicate that there is a further hierarchy of terms not displayed here. Any of these terms can be searched individually, or you can "explode" terms to search sections of the list. If you focus on Aged and look at the finer subdivisions you will find Aged, 80 and over "Exploding" Aged will retrieve articles on aged generally, but will also search for the more specific categories of Aged, 80 and over, or Frail elderly. Below is a simple example of a search for articles on prevention of falls in older people. COMBINE Accidental Falls (MeSH term) AND Aged (MeSH term) PubMed Search Formulationaccidental falls/pc[majr] AND aged[mh] NOT (adult[mh:noexp] OR middle age[mh] OR child[mh]) AND english[lang]This search strategy uses the headings accidental falls and aged. The section in the square brackets includes majr - which focuses the search on articles where the subject is a major issue in the article. I've added a subheading to accidental falls - "pc" which stands for "prevention and control". Other subheadings I could have chosen are - economics, mortality, statistics and numerical data, or trends. Most MeSH terms have subheadings which can be applied to them, and this is the range of options available for accidental falls. For a list of the abbreviations used for subheadings in PubMed click here In this search I have chosen to exclude adults, middle age, children and adolescents. NOT (adult[mh:noexp] OR middle age[mh] OR child[mh]) This is because I want to find articles which deal only with the aged NOT articles which deal with children or adults too. PubMed's default setting is to "explode" all terms, and so I've had to specify that I don't want it to explode the term adult (as I would otherwise end up with a search which contradicted itself by including the category Aged, and then excluding it). The search is then limited to articles which are in English or which have English abstracts. Click here to see how it works. PubMed search. You can also limit searches by aged groups by performing a search and then applying age limit options from the "Limit" fields. Australian SourcesAgeing (ABS) Ageing and
Aged Care (AIHW) The
Ageing Australian Population and Future Health Costs: 1996 - 2051 Ageing
Gracefully: An Overview of the Economic Implications of Australia's
Ageing
Population Profile ARCHI - Older Person Chronic Disease Model of Care Disability
and Ageing: Australian Population Patterns and Implications Health Report - Ageing National
Health and Medical Research Council. Publications. Aged Care Older
Australia at a Glance, 2007 (4th. Ed) Overseas SourcesAdding life to years : report of the Expert Group on Healthcare of Older People An
Aging World: 2001 AgingStats.Gov - Web Site
of the Federal Interagency Forum on Aging-Related Statistics Care of the Elderly - The Commonwealth Fund HealthandAge.com Healthy Aging - State of Aging and Health in America Report Journals
on Aging MEDLINEPlus: Nutrition for Seniors MEDLINEPlus: Seniors' Health Issues MEDLINEplus: Seniors' Health Topics MEDLINEplus is the National Library of Medicine's consumer health information portal. Lists of links are evaluated/reviewed/quality-filtered. Merck
Manual of Geriatrics
(Internet Edition) Merck Manual of Health and Aging The National Academies Press: Aging National
Service
Framework for Older People NHS Evidence - Later life NIHSeniorHealth Health
Information for Older Adults Preventing Falls Among Older Adults t Royal
Commission
on Long Term Care for the Elderly Teaching/Training Models on Trends in Health and Aging Why
is Health Treatment for the Elderly Less Expensive than for the Rest of
the Population? Health Care Rationing in Germany With
Respect to Old Age: Long Term Care - Rights and Responsibilities World Population Ageing: 1950-2050 |
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