Age and Ageing (Vol. 41, No. 5, September 2012).
ageing.oxfordjournals.org/content/vol41/issue5/index.dtl?etoc
August 21, 2012
CAAR – Center for Retirement Research at Boston College Issue Brief – August 21, 2012
“2010 SCF Suggests Even Greater Retirement Risks,” by Alicia H. Munnell (IB No. 12-15, August 2012, .pdf format, 6p.).
crr.bc.edu/briefs/2010-scf-suggests-even-greater-retirement-risks/
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CAAR – UK Parliamentary Library Standard Note – August 21, 2012
“Public service pensions – background,” by Djuna Thurley (SN06183, August 2012, .pdf format, 18p.).
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CAAR – Public Library of Science (PLoS) Articles – August 21, 2012
A. “Bias in Amputation Research; Impact of Subjects Missed from a Prospective Study,” by Lauren V. Fortington, Jan H. B. Geertzen, Joline C. Bosmans, and Pieter U. Dijkstra (PLoS ONE 7(8): e43629. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0043629, XML, HTML, and .pdf format, 6p.).
www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0043629
B. “Poor Decision Making Is a Consequence of Cognitive Decline among Older Persons without Alzheimer’s Disease or Mild Cognitive Impairment,” by Patricia A. Boyle, Lei Yu, Robert S. Wilson, Keith Gamble, Aron S. Buchman, and David A. Bennett (PLoS ONE 7(8): e43647. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0043647, XML, HTML, and .pdf format, 5p.).
www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0043647
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CAAR – Journal Table of Contents – August 21, 2012
Canadian Journal on Aging/Revue canadienne du vieillissement (Vol. 31, No. 3, September 2012).
journals.cambridge.org/action/displayIssue?decade=2010&jid=CJG&volumeId=31&issueId=03&iid=8675468
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CAAR – Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Article Abstracts – August 21, 2012
A. “Complement factor H genotypes impact risk of age-related macular degeneration by interaction with oxidized phospholipids,” by Peter X. Shaw, Li Zhang, Ming Zhang, Hongjun Du, Ling Zhao, Clara Lee, Seanna Grob, Siok Lam Lim, Guy Hughes, Janet Lee, Matthew Bedell, Mark H. Nelson, Fang Lu, Martin Krupa, Jing Luo, Hong Ouyang, Zhidan Tu, Zhiguang Su, Jin Zhu, Xinran Wei, Zishan Feng, Yaou Duan, Zhenglin Yang, Henry Ferreyra, Dirk-Uwe Bartsch, Igor Kozak, Liangfang Zhang, Feng Lin, Hui Sun, Hong Feng, and Kang Zhang (Vol. 109, No. 34, Aug. 21, 2012, p. 13757-13762).
www.pnas.org/content/109/34/13757.abstract
B. “ERK1/2 activation is a therapeutic target in age-related macular degeneration,” by Sami Dridi, Yoshio Hirano, Valeria Tarallo, Younghee Kim, Benjamin J. Fowler, Balamurali K. Ambati, Sasha Bogdanovich, Vince A. Chiodo, William W. Hauswirth, Jennifer F. Kugel, James A. Goodrich, Steven L. Ponicsan, David R. Hinton, Mark E. Kleinman, Judit Z. Baffi, Bradley D. Gelfand, and Jayakrishna Ambati (Vol. 109, No. 34, Aug. 21, 2012, p. 13781-13786).
www.pnas.org/content/109/34/13781.abstract
C. “Postsynaptic dysfunction is associated with spatial and object recognition memory loss in a natural model of Alzheimer’s disease,” by Álvaro O. Ardiles, Cheril C. Tapia-Rojas, Madhuchhanda Mandal, Frédéric Alexandre, Alfredo Kirkwood, Nibaldo C. Inestrosa, and Adrian G. Palacios (Vol. 109, No. 34, Aug. 21, 2012, p. 13835-13840).
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CAAR – US National Institutes of Health (NIH) Seniorhealth Website Update – August 21, 2012
A section on “Older Drivers” has been added to NIHSeniorHealth.
nihseniorhealth.gov/olderdrivers/howagingaffectsdriving/01.html
NIHSeniorHealth:
Tables of Contents
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CAAR – US Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Inspector General Report – August 21, 2012
“Questionable Billing by Community Mental Health Centers” (OEI-04-11-00100, August 2012, .pdf format, 30p.).
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CAAR – US National Institute on Aging, Alzheimer’s Disease Education and Referral Center Tip Sheets – August 21, 2012
“Caregiving Tips” (August 2012, .pdf format).
www.nia.nih.gov/alzheimers/announcements/2012/08/new-online-tip-sheets-alzheimers-caregivers
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