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mrepstein · 5 years

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Brian Epstein’s Address & Telephone Book

A small leather bound pocket address and telephone book that was owned and used by Brian Epstein. The book dates to 1967 and it consists of 57 pages of addresses and telephone number some of which are typed, some of which are in Epstein’s hand and some which have been added by hand on his behalf. // (click HERE to view more pages from the book)

The book contains a total of 404 entries - a selection of them are listed below:

ATV Ltd

ABC Television Ltd

AIR London Ltd.

Tom Arnold Ltd

Neil Aspinall

Artistes Car Hire

Annabels [nightclub]

Alexander’s Restaurant

Ashley Steiner Famous [talent agency]

Al Aronowitz

Atlantic Records

Eric Andersen

Bob Anthony

Bryce Hanmer & Co [accounting firm]

Bedford, Okrent & Co

BBC Television Centre

BBC Broadcasting House

Al Brodax

Cilla Black

Mr. & Mrs. Tony Barrow

Mr. & Mrs Don Black

Bryan Barrett

Jack Barclay Ltd [Bentley dealership]

Peter Brown

Mr. & Mrs. B. Bullough

Mr. & Mrs J. Bullough

Miss J. Balmer

Mr. &. Mrs. Ivan Bennett

Eric Burdon

Francisco Bermudez

Lionel Bart

David Bailey

Bag O’Nails

Tony Barlow

Ray Bartell

Rodney Barnes

Bruno One Restaurant

Sid Bernstein

Kenn Brodziak

Leonard Bernstein

Al Bennett

Beverly Hills Hotel

Brian Bedford

Scotty Bower

David Ballman

Bob Bonis

Bill Buist

Arthur Buist

Dr. Norman Cowan

Curzon House Club

Crockfords Club

Clermont Club

Cromwellian Club

Paddy Chambers

Radio Caroline

Michael Codron

Cap-Estel Le

Mr. & Mrs. J. Cassen

Columbia Pictures Ltd

Eric Clapton

Capitol Records Mexico

Michael Cooper

Roger Curtis

Neil Christian

Maureen Cleave

Thomas Clyde

Cash Box

CBS Records Ltd

Denny Cordell

William Cavendish

Caprice Restuarant

David Charkham

Capitol Records

Columbia Broadcasting System

Bob Crewe

May Cunnell

Car Hire Co. for Lincoln

Dr. Kenneth Chesky

Capitol Records (Voyle Gilmore)

Irving E. Chezar

Danny Cleary

Bobby Colomby

Bob Casper

Andre Cadet

Daily Express

Disc & Music Echo

Decca Records

Bernard Delfont Ltd

Bernard Delfont

Noel Dixon

Jimmy Douglas

Chris Denning

Simon Dee

Rik Dane

Dolly’s [nightclub]

Hunter Davies

Terry Doran

Pat Doncaster

Norrie Drummond

Alan David

John Dunbar

Peter Dalton

Kappy Ditson

Robert Dunlap

Robert L. David

Diana Dors

Ivor Davis

Tom Dawes

Brandon de Wilde

Don Danneman

Malcolm Evans

Clive J. Epstein

Mr. & Mrs. H. Epstein

EMI Records Ltd

EMI Studios

Geoffrey Ellis

Etoile Restaurant

Tim Ellis

Terry Eaton

Kenny Everett

John East

Bob Eubanks

Esther Edwards

Ahmet Ertegun

Alan Freeman

David Frost

Georgie Fame

Robert Fraser

Andre Fattacini

Dan Farson

Billy Fury

Barry Finch

Marianne Faithfull

Robert Fitzpatrick

Warren Frederikson

John Fisher

Danny Fields

Francis Fiorino

Dr. Geoffrey Gray

Hamish Grimes

Derek Grainger

Rik Gunnell

Rik Gunnell Agency Ltd

Derrick Goodman & Co.

Peter Goldman

Christopher Gibbs

David Garrick

Geoffrey Grant

Mick Green

John P. Greenside

Michael Gillet

General Artists Corp.

John Gillespie

Voyle Gilmore

George Greif

Ren Grevatt

Milton Goldman

M. Goldstein

Gary Grove

Henry Grossman

Mr. & Mrs. Berrell Hyman

Doreen Hyman

Mr. & Mrs. Basil J. Hyman

Mrs. A. Hyman

Steve Hardy

H. Huntsman & Son Ltd

Simon Hayes

Frankie Howerd

Henry Higgins

Chris Hutchins

Tony Howard

Wendy Hanson

Marty Himmel

Casper Halpern

John Heska

Ricky Heiman

Joe Hunter

Ty Hargrove

Hullabaloo.

Walter Hofer

M.A. Jacobs & Son

David Jacobs [lawyer]

Dick James Music Ltd

Mr. & Mrs. D. James

Mick Jagger

Brian Jones

Michael Jeffries

Drummond Jackson

David Jacobs [d.j.]

Brian Joyce

Gerry Justice

Gibson Kemp

Johnathan King

Mr. & Mrs Maurice Kinn

Kingsway Recording Studios

Ashley Kozac

Kafetz Camera Ltd.

Reg King

Andrew Koritsas

Ed Kenmore

Walker Kundzicz

John Kurland

Murray Kauffman

Larry Lamb

Martin Landau

Kit Lambert

Dick Lester

Mr. & Mrs. Vic Lewis

Tony Lynch

Radio London

Mike Leander

John Lyndon

Bernard Lee

Kenny Lynch

Denny Laine

Lomax Alliance

Ed Leffler

David G. Lowe

Richard W. Lean

Goddard Lieberson

Laurie Records

Liberty Records

London Records

Alan Livingston

Melody Maker

Peter Murray

Keith Moon

Mr. & Mrs. G. Martin

Mr. & Mrs. Brian Matthew

Midland Bank Limited

Vyvienne Moynihan

Gerry Marsden

Ian Moody

Michael McGrath

Cathy McGowan

Mr. & Mrs. J. McCartney

Albert Marrion

Robin Maughan

Peter Maddok

Gordon Mills

Brian McEwan

John Mendell Jnr.

Marshall Migatz

Fred Morrow

Chruch McLaine

Vincent Morrone

Jeffrey Martin Co.

Gavin Murrell

Dean Martin

Gordon B. McLendon

Sal Mineo

Scott Manley

Bernard Mavnitte

Verne Miller

John Neville

Joanne Newfield

Tommy Nutter

Francisco Neuner

Tatsuji Nagasima

New Musical Express

NEMS Enterprises Ltd

Graham Nash

Nemperor Artists Ltd

Louis Nizer

Bob Nauss

Gene Narmore

George H. Ornstein

Olympic Sound Studios

A. L. Oldham

Myles Osternak

Roy Onsborg

Col. Tom Parker

Jerry Pam

Plaza Hotel

PAN AM. rep

Bob Perlman

Allen Pohju

Robert H. Prech

John Pritchard

Prince Of Wales Theatre

Don Paul

Sean Phillips

Jon Pertwee

Ricki Pipe

Dr. D. A. Pond

David Puttnam

David Puttnam Associates

Tom Parr

Harry Pinsker

Kenneth Partridge

Larry Parnes

Priory Nursing Home

Viv Prince

Steve Paul

Radnor Arms [pub]

Leo Rost

Keith Richard

Record Mirror

Dolly Robertson-Ward

Charles Ross

Rules Restuarant

Marian Rainford

Bobby Roberts

Bill Rosado

Vic Singh

Speakeasy [club]

Simon and Marijke

Simon Shops

Judith Symons

Keith Skeel

Tony Sharman

Simon Scott

Barrie Summers

John Singleton

Squarciafichi

Don Short

Dr. Walter Strach

Walter Shenson

John Sandoe Ltd

Bobby Shafto

Harry South

Brian Sommerville

Robert Stigwood

David Shaw

Chris Stamp

Aaron Schroeder

Stephen, Jacques & Stephen [law firm]

Leo Sullivan

Gene Schwann

Herb Schlosser

Gary Smith

Jim Stewart [co-founder, Stax Records]

John Simon

Jerry N. Schatzberg

Lex Taylor

Robert Shoot

Lauren Stanton

St. Regis Hotel

Eric Spiros

Howard Soloman

Taft Limousine Corp

[Sidney] Traxler (lawyer)

T.W.A. Ken S. Fletcher [director, public relations, TWA]

Derek & Joan Taylor

T.W.A. (Victor Page)

Martin Tempest

Evelyn Taylor

Twickenham Studios

Kenneth Tynan

Alistair Taylor

F. T. Turner & Son Ltd.

R. S. Taylor

Michael Taylor

George Tempest

Norm Talbott

United Artists Corp Ltd

U.P.I.

Klaus & Christine Voormann

V.I.P. Travel Ltd

Mark Warman

Gary Walker

Robert Whitaker

Peter Watkins

Peter Weldon

Mrs. Freda Weldon

Alan Warren

Orson Welles

Sir David Webster

Alan Williams

Dennis Wiley

Terry Wilson

Nathan Weiss

Norman Weiss

Gerry Wexler

Murial Young

Bernice Young

Peter Zorcon

#Brian Epstein #handwriting #60s

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wishcub8-blog · 5 years

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LA’s next big earthquake could displace 270,000 people

In the three days after the Northridge Earthquake, sociologist Paul O’Brien trekked to the epicenter to collect survivors’ stories. He spoke with 31 survivors, some over the phone, but for the most part, he met people where they were lodging during those first few days and nights: on the street.

“One could not drive down any street in the Northridge section of town, and not find tents staked out on lawns, in parks, and anywhere else residents could find room,” he wrote in a research report published the same year.

Twenty five years later, experts still look back at Northridge to prepare for the inevitable: The next “Big One” will force hundreds of thousands of people out of their houses. How authorities respond to the crisis will largely determine the number of people displaced—and how long they will have to wait until they can return to home.

“It is a bit daunting if we were to have the Big One, just because LA is so big and so densely populated,” says Sonya Young-Jimenez, an emergency management coordinator for the city’s recreation and parks department, which shoulders the immense task of identifying and assessing sites for potential disaster shelters. “We’re talking hundreds of thousands of people being affected.”

The impact will be felt more intensely for some Angelenos than for others. It’s expected that those who can afford it will either flee or profit, increasing the value of their homes through renovations made with insurance payouts. Those who can’t will be left with fewer resources to pick up the pieces.

What unfolds in the aftermath could permanently change LA’s demographics, potentially exacerbating the gap between the rich and poor and even causing regional depressions. A short-term shelter crisis could evolve into a long-term community-building crisis. The general anxiety reported after natural disasters could result in so many people moving away that businesses shutter.

The Lopez and Garcia families camp out in a city park after their homes were heavily damaged by the Northridge earthquake.

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In 2008, a team of scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey used complex computer models to simulate what would happen if a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck the San Andreas fault.

The report, titled ShakeOut, estimates that quake would kill 1,800 people; rupture 966 roads, 21 railroads and 32 aqueducts; down 141 power lines; and damage 300,000 buildings.

As many as 270,000 people across Southern California would be displaced from their homes. About 500 public shelters would be needed to house roughly 175,000 of those people—nearly double the population of Santa Monica—because they wouldn’t be able to find shelter with family or friends or in hotels.

The biggest issues first responders and evacuees will face won’t be the ones caused by the quake itself. The real trouble will start after the ground stops shaking, says Lucy Jones, seismologist and author of The Big Ones: How Natural Disasters have Shaped Us.

Fires, water shortages, limited transit, job accessibility, and communication outages like the loss of cell phone service will exacerbate the damage and displacement.

“You get this compounding problem,” says Jones. “The economic system works because we all feed on each other. If employees aren’t going to work, then they’re also not going to eat at the nearby restaurant. Every one individual job has impact.”

Today, rising temperatures and changing intensity of winds could potentially be survivors’ worst enemy. As Jones laments, the Santa Ana Winds could stoke fires sparked by the quake, into fires not unlike the Woolsey and Camp Fires at the end of 2018.

Those issues could be complicated by the current homelessness crisis, leaving hundreds of thousands of Angelenos without temporary or even short-term shelter.

Officials are acutely aware that LA’s worsening housing shortage could raise the number of people displaced after a disaster. If hundreds or thousands of housing units were made inhabitable due to earthquake damage, even more people would be searching for new places to live.

Last year’s horrific wildfires are a tragic example, with tens of thousands of people displaced from the Camp Fire swamping the city of Chico.

The fires have presented incoming California Gov. Gavin Newsom and his office of emergency services an opportunity to change the way the state responds and delivers aid.

“That we still have a lot of people in shelters is indicative that we’re still learning,” says Tina Curry, the department’s deputy director of planning and preparedness. “But sometimes shelter operations can be extended and we’ll have to learn to support that.”

A loss of housing after the Woolsey Fire has created a surge in renters and spikes in listings, forcing the city of Malibu to put price gouging rules into place indefinitely.

Hefty payouts from insurance companies also fuel the problem. Updating insurance policies to a loss-of-use type is an effective way to prepare for a disaster, but as Jason Ballman, communications manager at the Southern California Earthquake Center emphasized, it also has priced people who don’t have insurance, or can’t afford it, out of the game.

In the case of Malibu and the Woolsey Fire, “some people who lost homes—and could afford it—simply left the country for the rest of the year,” Sandro Dazzan, real estate agent with The Agency told The Real Deal.

In 1994, people who could afford it named the earthquake as the catalyst for leaving California for good, as the New York Times chronicled in a 1994 article. As experts point out, and as the Los Angeles Times has reported, the population in Los Angeles has only ever dipped four times—two of those times occurring in the years following the Northridge quake.

If Californians were to flee, all eyes are on Arizona as the most probable state to absorb SoCal’s potential refugees—so much so that Phoenix leaders spent the latter part of 2018 running drills in the event that the Big One does come.

But what happens to those who choose not to leave?

Data collected after Northridge indicates people will head outside, to parks, open areas, anything away from a building, as long as it’s relatively near their own homes.

The recreation and parks department is preparing for many people to form tent camps in open spaces or on their front lawns. Official shelters, like those operated by the Red Cross and other agencies, will be set up in recreation facilities and public buildings.

“We do assessments of all our sites,” said Young-Jimenez. “And our partner is the Red Cross. Every week they’re assessing something. It’s pretty much ongoing.”

For many others, staying in LA will not be a choice.

“One statistic claims that for affluent white men, it takes an average of seven days to return home post-disaster, but for poor women of color, it takes an average of seven years,” says ShakeOut co-author Dennis Mileti, retired sociologist and director emeritus of the Natural Hazards Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder, citing findings published by natural disaster sociologist Robert Bolin after the Whittier Narrows Earthquake in 1987.

“I keep telling people: Stop worrying about the earthquake killing you, start worrying about the earthquake bankrupting you.”

Young-Jimenez’s department is using software that layers socioeconomic data on top of geographic and seismic data to model potential scenarios. The models can be used to identify how poorer areas of the city—those with older homes that most likely haven’t been retrofitted—would be affected by a major earthquake, in comparison to more affluent areas.

The reality is that earthquakes are indiscriminate. As Jones puts it: “Earthquakes shake everybody.”

But because of the difference in quality of infrastructure and lack of accessible resources people in lower-income communities face, the effects are often not.

“If you’re poor, you’re more likely to live in substandard housing, and be in a job that says to you, ‘Oh hell, give up,’” Jones says. “I keep telling people: Stop worrying about the earthquake killing you, start worrying about the earthquake bankrupting you.”

It’s also essential to consider where people come from, says Joselito Garcia-Ruiz, regional disaster program officer for the Red Cross’s LA Region.

“I came to work during Northridge, and I saw with my own eyes that many people from Central America and Mexico at that time were afraid to go inside the shelters, because they came from the ’85 earthquake in Mexico and they brought with them that experience,” he said.

While the long-term effects of a major quake could forever alter the economic and cultural landscape of Los Angeles—potentially sending its most vulnerable communities into economic depression while more affluent residents flee—there may be another surprising outcome.

Natural disasters are also good at knocking down social barriers.

Those unplanned shelters that popped up in 1994 were established not only out of convenience, but because of the bonds that had formed across walls both real and socially constructed. People—neighbors who may not have known each other until their homes were destroyed—wanted to be near each other.

“Even people who before a disaster hated each other, will end up hugging and kissing each other,” said Mileti. “It brings the best out in humanity.”

Source: https://la.curbed.com/2019/1/15/18182585/earthquake-california-evacuation-shelter-predictions

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hockeydraw3-blog · 5 years

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LA’s next big earthquake could displace 270,000 people

The Lopez and Garcia families camp out in a city park after their homes were heavily damaged by the Northridge earthquake.

AFP/Getty Images

In 2008, a team of scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey used complex computer models to simulate what would happen if a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck the San Andreas fault.

The report, titled ShakeOut, estimates that quake would kill 1,800 people; rupture 966 roads, 21 railroads and 32 aqueducts; down 141 power lines; and damage 300,000 buildings.

Fires, water shortages, limited transit, job accessibility, and communication outages like the loss of cell phone service will exacerbate the damage and displacement.

Those issues could be complicated by the current homelessness crisis, leaving hundreds of thousands of Angelenos without temporary or even short-term shelter.

Last year’s horrific wildfires are a tragic example, with tens of thousands of people displaced from the Camp Fire swamping the city of Chico.

The fires have presented incoming California Gov. Gavin Newsom and his office of emergency services an opportunity to change the way the state responds and delivers aid.

A loss of housing after the Woolsey Fire has created a surge in renters and spikes in listings, forcing the city of Malibu to put price gouging rules into place indefinitely.

But what happens to those who choose not to leave?

Data collected after Northridge indicates people will head outside, to parks, open areas, anything away from a building, as long as it’s relatively near their own homes.

“We do assessments of all our sites,” said Young-Jimenez. “And our partner is the Red Cross. Every week they’re assessing something. It’s pretty much ongoing.”

For many others, staying in LA will not be a choice.

“I keep telling people: Stop worrying about the earthquake killing you, start worrying about the earthquake bankrupting you.”

The reality is that earthquakes are indiscriminate. As Jones puts it: “Earthquakes shake everybody.”

But because of the difference in quality of infrastructure and lack of accessible resources people in lower-income communities face, the effects are often not.

It’s also essential to consider where people come from, says Joselito Garcia-Ruiz, regional disaster program officer for the Red Cross’s LA Region.

Natural disasters are also good at knocking down social barriers.

“Even people who before a disaster hated each other, will end up hugging and kissing each other,” said Mileti. “It brings the best out in humanity.”

Source: https://la.curbed.com/2019/1/15/18182585/earthquake-california-evacuation-shelter-predictions

#read more #see more #check it out #interesting #learn more

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huntinggearsuperstores · 5 years

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aidenknow · 5 months

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Clone 49: A Ballman clone that wears a modified helmet which has a helmet guard in order to protect himself while monitoring Boxxer’s whereabouts. This is so Ballman can plan an attack on Boxxer in advance.

I tried to add more doodles in this page since there are a few empty spaces left, but I gave up when I got art block. So here ya go!!

Clone 94 belongs to @htz-sany

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brainplaguerewind · 7 years

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Hi I was wondering since you love the queen do you have any headcannons about her? I'm asking for um science

I have actually never been asked this, this is a really thought provoking question.

I really like the idea of, like Dedan said, “By the queen’s thousand faces!” that she does, indeed, have different faces. Not in the way of, for example, being two-faced, but everyone sees her differently. Mortis even drew her three different ways when I asked him to draw her. If that’s not proof, I’m not sure what is.

I love the idea of her crown floating with her, whether it is the Crown of the Dead, or the intricate design Mortis started drawing her with in the first picture set he drew, but didn’t finish. The Crown of the Dead seems to be important to her. It uses the competence, “Aspirating Suzerain” which only heals itself. If you look at the meaning of those words and put them together, it means, in my opinion after I spent some time looking up and researching each word, the ambition of a sovereign (supreme ruler/monarch). It heals itself through the hopes of a ruler, especially a monarch. And we know a certain Queen who had great aspirations for the world she rebuilt. I completely associate her with that crown. But, uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

The idea of her having tentacle arms opposed to having hands always intrigued me. It explains her design in the game but Mortis has been drawing her with hands recently. The tentacle arms are colored dark like her skin so they definitely are part of her and not her dress. It appears her left one is the one wrapped around her waist and the other is crossed behind her back. I think they are some sort of tentacle of some sort or, because of the recent art, she can transform them into either. Her concept art of the, “Bad Queen” has the huge hands and long fingers too that almost look like the tentacle. Though one huge finger would be very weird. I prefer the tentacles for the game canon. But maybe she has tentacles because that’s the way the Batter sees her and, in the recent art which could be considered how WE see her, she has hands. I like that idea.

I believe she is the most powerful being in the game but the Batter was made to be unbeatable. When you get a Game Over screen, it is obviously because the Batter died. But no one else sees that except us. In the canon of the game, the Batter goes from Zone 0 to Hugo in one try. He was made in the image of Ballman from The Panic in Ballville. We see the Boxxer as the hero, but unable to win due to the overwhelming number of clones. Meaning, Ballman (a person who plays ball, slang for baseball. You know, like a batter) is unable to lose and, even in the short time we are in the comic, it’s assumed Boxxer was overwhelmed. Ballman was unable to lose, the Batter was unable to lose since he was created that way. It wasn’t that the Queen was weak (maybe she was from rebuilding the world), but she had no chance because of how the Batter was created.

I’ll wrap this up, because this is getting lengthy.

When she is drawn as the sun during The Room, the sun stands for her because of her being the life-force of the zones. She uses her energy (I might be paraphrasing pretty bad but bear with me) to possibly create the all of the elements and send them to the zones. The one that is specifically mentioned is plastic. Plastic is shown as solid objects that are soft and safe for Elsen, and is shown in liquid form that looks like water, which is really essential for life to humans. Elsen are said to be clones of one human (Felix told me this, he spoke to Mortis about it) and are all affected by a strange disease (maybe they require it to survive like us). Plastic is sent to the zones to be transformed into objects but is never said to be drank or consumed; another thing that’s never explained. What I’m getting at is, like the sun, she is essential to the survival of everything and everyone in the zones. She radiates her energy, like our sun, to the world.

And also, she has sang, “You are my Sunshine” to Hugo at least once.

Maybe she is also like the sun because she is never always around for Hugo. When she is gone, it’s darkness, a fear of his. When she is there, she lightens up his life.

I hope you enjoy this answer. It was incredibly fun the write.

#off (game)#vader eloha #off (mortis ghost)#ask #anon #i did a lot of research for this

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agespecific · 6 years

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Journal of the American Geriatrics Society Research Summary

Older women are at higher risk for developing breast cancer than younger women are—almost half of all breast cancer cases, and most breast cancer deaths, occur in women who are 65 or older. Despite this, we know very little about how breast cancer and its treatments affect older women. In particular, we don’t fully understand how the disease and chemotherapy treatments affect a woman’s ability to function and perform daily activities.

For older adults, knowing how chemotherapy may affect you is important, especially if there’s a chance it could affect your ability to live independently. Understanding your risk for such problems would be good information to have when it comes to choosing treatments.

To learn more about how breast cancer and its treatments might affect older women’s abilities to function, a team of researchers designed a study. They published their results in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.

The researchers reviewed information from an earlier study, which included 633 women aged 65 or older who had been diagnosed with breast cancer. That study compared the effectiveness of two different chemotherapy treatments. Researchers of that study asked participants questions, including:

Do you have trouble with strenuous activities, like carrying a heavy shopping bag?

Do you have any trouble taking a long walk?

Do you have any trouble taking a short walk outside the house?

Do you need to stay in bed or in a chair during the day?

Do you need help with eating, dressing, washing yourself, or using the toilet?

In their new study, the researchers’ goal was to learn about changes in the participants’ ability to perform daily activities after the participants received chemotherapy. The researchers also wanted to learn more about why some women lost some of their abilities—or experienced a decline—in performing daily activities, and why other women were able to recover the abilities they had before their treatment.

The researchers said that their findings might help identify breast cancer survivors at risk of physical function decline and might shed light on future treatments designed to decrease this risk.

The researchers learned that short-term decline in physical function was common among older adults treated with chemotherapy for breast cancer. In the study, almost half (42 percent) of the participants experienced a decrease in their ability to function from pre-chemotherapy to the end of treatment. And almost one-third (30 percent) of the participants experienced a decline in their ability to function from before they started chemotherapy to 12 months later.

Among patients who experienced physical function decline from before chemotherapy to end of chemotherapy, about half (47 percent) were resilient, meaning they “bounced back” to the activity level they previously had within 12 months after starting chemotherapy treatment.

The impact of treatment on physical function is an important consideration for older adults. Functional decline is associated with loss of independence and increased risks for hospitalization and nursing home placement.

Interestingly, some older adults who experience problems performing their daily activities after cancer treatment are able to bounce back. Also known as “resilience,” this process of recovery is considered vital to successful aging. Resilient older adults may be more able to recover after a stressful experience like chemotherapy.

“In our study, about half of the patients who experienced functional decline were able to ‘bounce back’ to their former function, and we considered them to be physically resilient,” said the researchers. “We also learned that half of the patients were resistant to decline, and maintained their functional status throughout treatment,” they added.

Risk factors for functional decline one year after chemotherapy included:

Fatigue

Having breathing difficulties

Being unmarried or lacking social support, such as assistance from family and friends

Poor appetite, which could indicate poor nutrition and/or depression

The helpful actions that could increase ability to “bounce back” include:

Diet and exercise programs. One study showed that starting a diet and exercise program within 18 months of breast cancer diagnosis is linked to an improvement in the ability to function.

Behavior Interventions. In one study, 49 percent of older, overweight survivors of breast, colorectal, and prostate cancer who enrolled in a two-year exercise, diet, and weight-loss program did not experience a decline in their abilities to function. In fact, 57 percent recovered to their pre-treatment level.

This summary is from “Functional Decline and Resilience among Older Women Receiving Adjuvant Chemotherapy for Breast Cancer.” It appears online ahead of print in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. The study authors Arti Hurria, MD; Enrique Soto-Perez-de-Celis, MD; Jacob B. Allred, MS; Harvey Jay Cohen, MD; Anait Arsenyan, MPH; Karla Ballman, PhD; Jennifer Le-Rademacher, PhD; Aminah Jatoi, MD; Julie Filo, BS; Jeanne Mandelblatt, MD, MPH; Jacqueline M. Lafky, MS; Gretchen Kimmick, MD, MS; Heidi D. Klepin, MD, MS; Rachel A. Freedman, MD, MPH; Harold Burstein, MD, PhD; Julie Gralow, MD; Antonio C. Wolff, MD; Gustav Magrinat, MD; Myra Barginear, MD; and Hyman Muss, MD.

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