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AgeLine provides bibliographic references and original abstracts for materials related to aging and middle age, from an interdisciplinary perspective of psychology, economics, sociology, gerontology, public policy, business, health and health care services, and consumer issues. Documents on health care and policy comprise about half the database. Document types include: journal articles, books, book chapters, reports, and government documents. Journal coverage includes research, professional and general interest titles. |
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American Association of Retired Persons (AARP) | |||
| Segments and Years of Coverage | |||
| AARP (1978 to present, with selective retrospective coverage. ) | |||
The limit of databases that you can select for a multifile search session is based upon database segments rather than actual databases. The Ovid multifile segment limit is set at 120 to avoid impacting your search sessions. This database includes 1 segment. | |||
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| All Fields in this Database | |||
| Abstract (AB) | Funding Source (FS) | Publication Year (YR) | |
| Accession Number (AN) | Identifiers (ID) | Series Title (ST) | |
| Authors (AU) | Monographic Information (MI) | Source (SO) | |
| Availability (AV) | Notes (NT) | Title and Monographic Title (TI) | |
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Default Fields for Display, Print, Email, and Save: The following fields are included by default for each record. |
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| Descriptors (DE) | Publication Type (PT) | Update Code (UP) | |
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All Fields for Display, Print, Email, and Save: Use the Select Fields button in the Results Manager at the bottom of the Main Search Page to choose the fields for a record. |
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| Descriptors (DE) | Publication Type (PT) | Update Code (UP) | |
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Elements of Source (SO) Field: Ovid searches the following fields as part of the record source. |
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| Combined field for journal name, season, month, year, volume, issue, part, and pagination (components are not individually indexed). | |||
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The following list is sorted alphabetically by the two-letter label, and includes the relevant alias, at least one example for all searchable fields, and a description of the field.
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| AB | Abstract [Word Indexed] urban elderly.ab. pet therap$.ab. |
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The Abstract (AB) field contains 100-200 word originally written summary of the main points of the document. | ||||||||
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| AN | Accession Number [Phrase Indexed] 25479.an. 66419.an. |
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The Accession Number (AN) is an AgeLine-generated unique accession number, such as 106234. | ||||||||
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| AU | Authors [Word & Phrase Indexed] hekman ellen l.au. rabbitt $.au. |
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The Author (AU) field can include personal authors, editors, and compilers and be preceded by:
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| AV | Availability [Word Indexed] scan.av. social security administration.av. |
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The Availability (AV) field provides the source for obtaining the document or for obtaining more information about the document. The field may include:
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| DE | Descriptors [Word & Phrase Indexed] |
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The Descriptors (DE) field contains single or multiple-word index terms assigned to each citation to reflect the main focus of the document. All descriptors are taken from the AgeLine Thesaurus of Aging Terminology. The term "Older Adults" is assigned to most AgeLine records. |
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| FS | Funding Source [Word Indexed] |
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The Funding Source (FS) field is the name of the organization (mainly foundations) or government unit funding the research for the document. Corporate authors are not listed as funding sources. |
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| ID | Identifiers [Word Indexed] |
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The Identifiers (ID) field contains terms that reflect new oremerging concepts and which may appear in future editions of the Thesaurus of Aging Terminology. Not all records include identifiers. | ||||||||
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| MI | Monographic Information [Word Indexed] |
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The Monographic Information (MI) field includes further details on the Title (TI) and Source (SO). | ||||||||
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The Notes (NT) field is miscellaneous information not provided by other fields; might include title of former edition, reprint status, conference information, or availability of non-English version. | ||||||||
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| PT | Publication Type [Word Indexed] |
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The Publication Type (PT) field contains the type of article the record is, such as a Journal Article, Book, Chapter, Dissertation, Video. | ||||||||
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| SO | Source [Word Indexed] |
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The Source (SO) field contains the citation information for the article. This can include the publisher name and location, the volume, issue/ part, the pagination and the date of publication. | ||||||||
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| ST | Series Title [Word Indexed] |
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The Series title (ST) field is assigned by publisher if part of a series of documents. Not standardized--may include report and volume numbers, such as Aged care series, No. 8; Contemporary world issues; CRR WP, 2004-02. | ||||||||
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| TI | Title and Monographic Title [Word Indexed] |
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The Title (TI) field includes the title of a journal article, book, chapter, dissertation, video. | ||||||||
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| UP | Update Code [Phrase Indexed] |
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The Update Code (UP) is in the format YYMM, where YY is the 2 digit year and MM is the month of the update. | ||||||||
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| YR | Publication Year [Phrase Indexed] |
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The Publication Year (YR) contains the year of publication. | ||||||||
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You can use special words and symbols to combine search terms and refine a search. For efficient searching, use the most appropriate operator from the list below to combine search terms. For more information on these and other searching techniques, including command line syntax searching, refer to the Ovid Gateway Help.
| Operator | Syntax | Search Example | Sample Results |
| OR | x or y | vitamin c or ascorbic acid |
"Consumption of vitamin-C-rich foods in male care receivers and intake of fiber and fluids in female care receivers increased after the NHE intervention." |
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The OR operator retrieves records that contain any or all of the search terms. For example, the search heart attack or myocardial infarction retrieves results that contain the terms heart attack, myocardial infarction or both terms; results are all inclusive. You can use the OR operator in both unqualified searches and searches applied to a specific field. | ||
| AND | x and y | herbal and supplement |
"Who are the users of vitamin-mineral and herbal preparations among community-living older adults?" |
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The AND operator retrieves only those records that include all of the search terms. For example, the search blood pressure and stroke retrieves results that contain the term blood pressure and the term stroke together in the same record; results are exclusive of records that do not contain both of these terms. You can use the AND operator in both unqualified searches and searches applied to a specific field. | ||
| NOT | x not y | supplement not herbal |
"Early nutritional supplementation immediately after diagnosis of infectious disease improves body weight in psychogeriatric nursing home residents." |
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The NOT operator retrieves records that contain the first search term and excludes the second search term. For example, the search health reform not health maintenance organizations retrieves only those records that contain the term health reform but excludes the term health maintenance organizations. In this way, you can use the NOT operator to restrict results to a specific topic. You can use the NOT operator in both unqualified searches and searches applied to a specific field. |
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| Adjacency (ADJ) | x y | herbal supplement |
"Herbal supplements in older adults: consider interactions and adverse events that may result from supplement use." |
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The Adjacent operator (ADJ) retrieves records with search terms next to each other.You do not need to separate search terms manually by inserting ADJ between them, because when you separate terms with a space on the command line, Ovid automatically searches for the terms adjacent to one another. For example, the search blood pressure is identical to the search blood adj pressure. | ||
| Defined Adjacency (ADJn) | x ADJn y | benefits adj3 medicare |
"Racial disparities in the diagnosis of breast cancer persist for older women, despite public health initiatives to reduce or eliminate racial disparities, changes in Medicare benefits to cover cancer screening and federal legislation to improve the quality of mammography services." |
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The defined adjacency operator (ADJn) retrieves records that contain search terms within a specified number (n) of words from each other in any order. To use the adjacency operator, separate your search terms with ADJ and a number from 1 to 99. For example, the search physician adj5 relationship retrieves records that contain the words physician and relationship within five words of each other in either direction. This particular search retrieves records containing such phrases as physician patient relationship, patient physician relationship, or relationship of the physician to the patient. | ||
| Frequency (FREQ) | x.ab./FREQ=n | medicare.ab. /freq=5 |
"2006 Medicare explained." |
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The frequency operator (FREQ) lets you specify a threshold of occurrence of a term in the records retrieved from your search. Records containing your search term are retrieved only if the term occurs at least the specified (n) number of times. In general, records that contain many instances of your search term are more relevant than records that contain fewer instances. The frequency operator is particularly useful when searching a text field, such as Abstract or Full Text, for a common word or phrase. | ||
| Unlimited Truncation ($) | x$ | rat$ |
"Delirium subtype identification and the validation of the Delirium Rating Scale" |
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Unlimited truncation retrieves all possible suffix variations of the root word indicated. To apply unlimited truncation to a term, type the root word or phrase followed by either of the truncation characters: $ (dollar sign) or : (colon). For example, in the truncated search disease$, Ovid retrieves the word disease as well as the words diseases, diseased, and more. | ||
| Limited Truncation ($) | x$n | dog$1 |
"Where the trail grows faint: a year in the life of a therapy dog team." |
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Limited truncation specifies a maximum number of characters that may follow the root word or phrase. For example, the truncated search dog$1 retrieves results with the words dog and dogs; but it does not retrieve results with the word dogma. | ||
| Mandated Wildcard (#) | xx#y | wom#n |
"Intergenerational contract, women's labor, and social change in contemporary rural South China." |
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Searching with a mandated wildcard retrieves all possible variations of a word in which the wildcard is present in the specified place. You can use it at the end of a term to limit results to only those that contain the word plus the mandated character. For example, the search dog# retrieves results that contain the word dogs, but not those that contain the word dog, effectively limiting results to only those that contain the plural form of the word. The mandated wild card character (#) is also useful for retrieving specialized plural forms of a word. For example, the search wom#n retrieves results that contain both woman and women. You can use multiple wild cards in a single query word. | ||
| Optional Wildcard (?) | xx?y | colo?r |
"HIV risk and intimate partner violence among older women of color: a descriptive analysis. |
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The optional wild card character (?) can be used within or at the end of a search term to substitute for one or no characters. This wild card is useful for retrieving documents with British and American word variants since it specifies that you want retrieval whether or not the extra character is present. For example, the optional wild card search colo?r retrieves results that contain the words color or colour. You can use multiple wild cards in a single query word. | ||
| Literal String ("") | "x / y" | "go/no-go" |
"Correlations were moderate to high between the FDT and Stroop Color Word Test (modified to include a fourth switching task similar to FDT-IV), Symbol Search, Color Trails, go/no-go tests, and Ruff 2and7 Selective Attention Test." |
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"Clinical Gerontologist. 2006. Vol. 29, No. 4. p. 99-104. (6p.)" |
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Quotation marks can be used to retrieve records that contain literal strings, when the string includes special characters, such as a forward slash (/). Quotation marks can also be used to retrieve records that contain numbers that may otherwise be confused for earlier searches. In the example, a search for 3.vo would limit the string from your third search in your search history to the volume field. By including the number in quotation marks, the search will retrieve documents with a 3 in the volume number. |
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Latest Update |
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limit 1 to latest update |
A limit to latest update restricts retrieval to documents which were most recently added to the database. |
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| Publication Type | Sentence Syntax: Command Syntax: |
limit 1 to pt=book |
A limit by Publication Type restricts retrieval by any of the publication types indexed by AARP, including classifications such as "journal", "book", "dvd", and so on. |
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Publication Year |
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A limit to publication year retrieves documents from a given year covered in the AGELINE database. If you choose this option you will be prompted to enter the desired year in 4 digit format, such as "1989" or a range, such as "1998-2000". |
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<Sample 1> Accession Number 66849. Author Bruck, Laura. Title Today's ancillaries, part 2: art, music and pet therapy. Source Nursing Homes Long Term Care Management. Jul-Aug 1996. Vol. 45, No. 7. p. 36+. (8p.) Abstract Explores modern approaches to the use of art, music, and pet therapy in long term care. A growing number of nursing homes are discovering the benefits of art and music therapy in achieving a number of therapeutic goals. While some private insurance reimburses for psychologist-ordered art therapy sessions, third-party payers generally do not reimburse for art therapy in the nursing home, a situation that may change as art therapists seek state licensure. Art therapy, in addition to encouraging residents to express themselves creatively, can provide useful information about the severity of a medical condition, especially dementia; can elicit reminiscing and socialization when verbal communication is impaired; can offer a nonthreatening means of expressing emotions; and can improve dexterity and range of motion. Music, as a powerful trigger of memory, emotions, and the senses, has great therapeutic potential in a nursing home. It can encourage socialization and decrease isolation, aid in pain management and communication, have a calming effect and reduce agitation, and tap into memory. Residents with dementia may be completely disoriented to time and place but can often remember and sing every word of songs from long ago, giving them a sense of pride and a link to their past. Therapeutic benefits of pet therapy include a lowering of blood pressure, reduction in stress, and unconditional love and affection. Suggestions are given for ensuring a successful pet visit, and questions of dog versus cat and puppy/kitten versus adult animal are discussed. Addresses and telephone numbers for art, music, and pet therapy organizations are provided. (SW) (AgeLine Database, copyright 1996 American Association of Retired Persons, all rights reserved) Descriptors United-States Older-Adults Nursing-Homes Long-Term-Care Institutionalized-Elderly Pets Art-Therapy Music-Therapy Quality-of-Life Identifiers Pet Therapy Publication Type Journal Article. Update Code 9610 |
<Sample 2> Accession Number 67961. Author Baldwin, Roberta L. Craven, Ruth F. Dimond, Margaret. Title Falls: are rural elders at greater risk?. Source Journal of Gerontological Nursing. Aug 1996. Vol. 22, No. 8. p. 14-21. (8p.) Abstract Examined the risk factors and incidence of falls among rural, community-living older adults. Data were gathered on 31 adults aged 65-89 using the Study of Falls in the Elderly instrument, which includes demographics, history of previous falls, circumstances surrounding most recent fall, recent illnesses, clothing worn at time of fall, medications, and other factors. Fifty-two percent of respondents had sustained at least one fall in the previous year, which is a higher fall rate than the 30-35 percent rate generally reported in the literature. In general, fallers were represented in greater numbers in the 75 and younger age group. Of the 31 percent of falls that resulted in injuries, none were serious or required medical attention. Environmental factors, such as tripping on a piece of firewood and having brush snap underfoot, contributed to well over half of the falls in the study. Nearly half of the falls were related to home maintenance or support, reflecting demands of rural living. Eighty-nine percent indicated no concern about falling in a variety of routine or recreational activities, and no fear of being injured should they fall. Findings indicate that the fall-risk profile for rural elderly differs from that of their nonrural counterparts. (WD) (AgeLine Database, copyright 1996 American Association of Retired Persons, all rights reserved) Descriptors United-States Older-Adults Rural 65+ Young-Old Old-Old Falls Risk-Factors Injuries Publication Type Journal Article. Update Code 9610 |
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