Louise M. Waite

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe experiences and perspectives of people with dementia and their family caregivers in making decisions about institutional care placement and identify five themes: ensuring safety (avoiding injury due to frailty, protecting against dangerous behaviors, preventing aggressive encounters), reaching breaking point (insufferable burden of caregiving, needs exceeding capabilities, intensifying family conflict, loneliness and isolation, straining under additional responsibilities, making extreme personal sacrifices), vulnerability in lacking support (ill-prepared for crisis, unable to access professional expertise, unpredictable prognostic trajectory, uncertainty navigating health care services,

TL;DR: The aim of the present longitudinal study of community‐dwelling older men was to examine the association between cognitive status at baseline, and falls, fractures and bone loss over time.

TL;DR: Compared to their Australian-born counterparts, older Italian-born men have a lower mortality than expected considering their lower SES, higher smoking and higher morbidity.

TL;DR: Fracture risk may be increased in older men who lose higher lean relative to fat mass and weight loss interventions for obese older men should target maintenance of lean mass.

TL;DR: To describe the prevalence and correlates of alcohol consumption and tobacco smoking among older Australian men, a large sample of men in their 60s and 70s were surveyed.