This issue of Clinics in Geriatric Medicine, guest edited by Mary Ann Zagaria, PharmD, is devoted to Polypharmacy. Articles in this outstanding issue include: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Support for Medication Therapy Management (Enhanced Medication Therapy Management): Testing Strategies for Improving Medication Use Among Beneficiaries Enrolled in Medicare Part D; The Role of Patient Preferences in Deprescribing; Polypharmacy Reduction Strategies: Tips on Incorporating American Geriatrics Society Beers and Screening Tool of Older People’s Prescriptions Criteria; Polypharmacy and Delirium in Critically Ill Older Adults: Recognition and Prevention; Geriatric Polypharmacy: Pharmacist as Key Facilitator in Assessing for Falls Risk; Medication Reconciliation in Long-Term Care and Assisted Living Facilities: Opportunity for Pharmacists to Minimize Risks Associated with Transitions of Care; Can Managed Care Manage Polypharmacy?; Medication Risk Mitigation: Coordinating and Collaborating with Health Care Systems, Universities, and Researchers to Facilitate the Design and Execution of Practice-Based Research; and Geriatric Polypharmacy: Two Physicians’ Personal Perspectives.
This issue of Clinics in Geriatric Medicine, guest edited by Mary Ann Zagaria, PharmD, is devoted to Polypharmacy.
With the use of multiple medications in the elderly patient comes the risk of drug-related problems.
He now needs assistance from 2 people to transfer and requires assistance with feeding and toileting. His daughter (who works full time) is no longer able to manage his care needs. He is sent to the emergency department for increased ...
Primary prevention of CVD with aspirin use remains controversial in older adults because of the risk of bleeding. Follow-up Care and Quality Indicators Self-monitoring of blood glucose individualized frequency HBA1c testing 2 times to 4 ...
Amir E. Soumekh, Philip O Katz. Lactose intolerance has high prevalence among the elderly population. Replacement digestive enzymes exist for lactose and sucrose. Other sugars can be identified and excluded through FODMAP.
Acute Pain Management in Older Adults in the Emergency Department Ula Hwang, MD, MPHa,b,c,*, Timothy F. Platts-Mills, MDd,e KEYWORDS Pain Geriatrics Emergency medicine Pain assessment Analgesics KEY POINTS Effective treatment of acute ...
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Bracken's “Cone of causation” simultaneously acknowledges causal contributors, induction periods between risk factors in a causal chain, ... Risk, chance, and causation: Investigating the origins and treatment of disease.
The daughter was instructed to recognize those signs and call emergency medical services. Shortly thereafter, the patient was admitted through the emergency department at another hospital. From there, she was discharged to a long-term ...
... patients.5 Patients with PD (6%–45%) have an emergency room visit at least once a year, and 7% to 28% are hospitalized. ... among older adults hospitalized for falls.2 Symptoms such as postural instability, orthostatic hypotension, ...