Review Article
Late-life Depression: Current Issues and New Challenges
Depression in late life (>60 years old) is one of the most common and treatable psychiatric disorders in the elderly. It not only causes...
Neurofibrillary and Ethico-legal Tangles: In Search of Surrogates for Dementia Patients Lacking Decision-making Capacity...
Dementia is an age-prevalent chronic degenerative disease that causes gradual and progressive deterioration of a patient’s cognitive abilities. With Singapore’s rapidly ageing population, the...
Assessing Decision-making Capacity in Dementia Patients: A Semi-structured Approach
Given the rapid ageing of Singapore, all practising clinicians can expect to see an exponential rise in the medical and surgical problems of the...
An Evidence-based Clinical Approach to the Diagnosis of Dementia
The prevalence of dementia or cognitive impairment in local studies has been shown to range from 2% to 13%. These differences in prevalence rates...
Urinary Incontinence in Older Persons: A Simple Approach to a Complex Problem
Urinary incontinence is the involuntary loss of urine which is objectively demonstrable and is a social or hygienic problem. Trivial as it may sound,...
The Development of Geriatric Psychiatry Services in Singapore
The population of Singapore is ageing. In 2002, it was estimated that there were 252,700 persons aged >65 years, forming 7.5% of the population....
Aged Care Issues and Services in Australia
In Australia, the number of elderly people is increasing rapidly. In 2001, the population of Australia was approximately 19 million people and about 12.6%...
Aged Care Services in Singapore – An Overview
The last century has witnessed the establishment of geriatric medicine as a well-recognised medical specialty supported by a respectable body of evidence, which shows...
Radionuclide Therapy of Hepatocellular Carcinoma
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a common malignancy worldwide. It is a major cause of death from cancer in East Asia, especially China, Japan, Korea,...
Clinical Positron Emission Tomography Imaging—Current Applications
Like other radionuclide techniques, positron emission tomography (PET) is based on the tracer principle – a small amount of labelled ligand is used to...