[Scoring and validation of the Clock Face Test in psychometric assessment of elderly subjects].

Aims: To propose an original evaluation and validation of the Clock Face Test (CFT).

Method: Outpatients; 163 elderly people, aged over 65 years. Factory analysis, Student's test.

[Evaluation of labetalol in general medicine in aged patients with hypertension. Compliance, efficacy and safety in long-term treatment].

The efficacy and the clinical and biological safety of labetalol were assessed, in primary care, in an ambulatory hypertensive elderly population, with systolo-diastolic hypertension (mean 175 +/- 14/100 +/- 7 mmHg) monitored during a 6 month period by general practitioners. Two hundred and sixty six of the 309 patients recruited (86%) completed the study, with satisfactory compliance. Mean blood pressure reduction after six months treatment was 27.

[Abuse and violence against the elderly].

If the problem is not new in its nature, it happens frequently considering the increase of potential victims and aggressors. The elderly are special targets regarding to their fragility and life conditions. Abuse and neglect are related to physical, financial and care aspects.