Blood, Birds, and the Old Road

The Road to a Healthy Old Age

Citizenship and Old Age: The End of the Road?

This paper is concerned with the interlinked issues of citizenship and the structured dependency of older people within Social Gerontology. It argues that implicit in much British Social Gerontology is a strategy of advancing the wellbeing of elderly people through the extension of citizenship rights. Absence of these rights leads to poverty, exclusion and ageism being commonplace experiences o...

Panting and blood carbon dioxide in birds.

CALDER, W+ A., AND KNUT SCHMIDT-NELSEN. Punting and blood carbon dioxide in birds. Am. J* Physiol, 215(2): 4771482. 1968.-The respiration of resting and panting birds was studied in nine species representing a wide range of size, morphology, and habits. All these birds had similar values for arterial blood PCU~ and pH during normal resting respiration (28 mm C02, pH = 7.5). These values are muc...

Blood Pressure and Old Age.

Twenty years ago, Thompson and Todd (1922) published an article entitled "Old age and blood pressure problems." They recorded the blood pressure in a hundred and two Chelsea pensioners over the age of seventy-five, noting that forty-six of them had systolic figures over 150 mm. and twenty-three over 170 mm. They also found that apparently similar men in normal health showed great differences in...

Comparison of Birds Detected from Roadside and Off-Road Point Counts in the Shenandoah National Park

Roadside point counts are generally used for large surveys to increase the number of samples. We examined differences in species detected from roadside versus off-road (200-m and 400-m) point counts in the Shenandoah National Park. We also compared the list of species detected in the first 3 minutes to those detected in 10 minutes for potential species biases. Results from 81 paired roadside an...