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  Stigmatizing a "normal" condition: Urinary incontinence in late life

  The geriatric medical literature presents a perspective on urinary incontinence in the elderly that is sharply divergent from the realities of medical and lay responses to incontinence. It reveals a consensus that urinary incontinence, a major health problem among the elderly, is treatable and frequently reversible.
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  Managing an uncertain illness trajectory in old age: Patients' and physicians' views of stroke

  Examines illness trajectories from two vantage points, that of older persons who have had a stroke and that of physicians who care for stroke patients.