URINARY incontinence in the elderly is prevalent, morbid, costly, and neglected. It affects 5
to 15 per cent of elderly people living in the community, 1 and its prevalence increases to …

DESIGN: Prospective, randomized, blinded. SETTING: Inpatient academic tertiary medical
center. PARTICIPANTS: 126 consenting patients 65 and older (mean age 79±8 years, 79 …

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the role of delirium in the natural history of functional recovery after
hip fracture surgery, independent of prefracture status. DESIGN: Prospective cohort study …

Voiding dysfunctions are common in the elderly. Yet the pathogenesis and pathophysiology
have remained largely unknown. To date there has been little information on structure of the …

Objective.—To determine the relative importance of fall characteristics, body habitus, and
femoral bone mineral density (BMD) in predicting hip fracture in community-dwelling elderly …

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to identify risk factors for urinary incontinence in
middle-aged women. STUDY DESIGN: We conducted a cross-sectional analysis of 83,355 …

Little is known about the causes of urinary incontinence in institutionalized elderly people,
despite the fact that $8 billion is annually devoted to diapering those afflicted. We have …

Context: Although androgen deprivation therapy (ADT) for prostate cancer is associated with
bone loss, little is known about when this bone loss occurs. Objective: We postulated that …

Although 1 million institutionalized elderly persons have urinary incontinence, little is known
about the causes of this problem. We conducted clinical and physiologic studies to …

Purpose: To determine the importance of fall characteristics, body habitus, function, and hip
bone mineral density as independent risk factors for hip fracture in frail nursing home …