Are we equipped to rehabilitate old people?

Are we ever too old?

The aging population increases the demand of intensive care unit (ICU) treatments. However, the availability of ICU beds is limited. Thus, ICU admission of octogenarians is considered controversial. The population above 80 years is a very heterogeneous group though, and age alone might not be the best predictor. Aim of this study was to analyze resource consumption and outcome of octogenarians ...

Old People—Must We Shut Them Away?

? must we shut them away? Dr. Norman Capstick outlines a scheme which would save many old people from the isolation of an institution, but still enable them to receive the care and treatment that they need The aim of keeping old people in the community is partly to avoid resignation to an institutional life, with its loss of independence, and also because a hospital is essentially a therapeutic...

'Homosexuality: are we adequately equipped to address this issue in clinical practice'?

How we predict what other people are going to do.

We present a framework for discussing two major aspects of social cognition: the ability to predict what another person is like and what another person is likely to do next. In the first part of this review, we discuss studies that concern knowledge of others as members of a group and as individuals with habitual dispositions. These include studies of group stereotypes and of individual reputat...

Happy birthday: we are one year old

About a year ago we launched Systematic Reviews. During this first year we have been delighted by the journal’s growth and rate of development. At the time of writing we have published 84 articles. Of these, 42 were protocols, 17 were completed systematic reviews, 9 were methods papers, and 16 were other types of articles including two overviews. Twenty articles have been highly accessed, meani...