Elderly patients are at greater risk for adverse drug effects than younger peo-ple. Advanced
age, use of multiple medications, 1, 2 coexisting conditions, 2 low body weight and being a …

OBJECTIVES Low‐dose drug therapy is promoted as a way to maximize benefit and
minimize adverse drug effects when prescribing for older adults. This population‐based …

When prescribing for older patients, some physicians are overly cautious, and this strategy
can result in a less than optimal treatment outcome. The reluctance to treat aggressively is …

This review delineates why commonly prescribed drugs and dosages often have
unexpected responses in the elderly, and suggests ways to improve prescribing for this …

Appropriate prescribing Page 92 7 Appropriate Prescribing GREGORY J. HUGHES AND
JUDITH L. BEIZER OUTLINE Objectives 59 Adherence Aids 64 Test Questions 66. e1 …

What happens when you stop? This is the third of a three-part series on antihypertensive
medication use in older people. In the first, we reviewed the importance of better blood …

A guide for doctors to quickly choose the right drugs in the right dose for the most important
clinical problems in the elderly Prescribing medications for elderly patients is complex-this …

Every medical care provider wants to do the right thing. The challenge in care of older
persons is that the “right” thing is often unclear. Older patients have extraordinary …

OVER THE PAST FEW YEARS THE pendulum has swung from concern about the risks of
excessive prescribing of inappropriate or unnecessary drug therapy to concerns about the …

Another aspect of medication use in older people that came to the limelight in the 1990s was
the underuse of medications in older people. 15 This issue was recently reviewed in an …