Drug therapy for individuals of any age is difficult but prescribing for older patients offers
special challenges. Older people take about three times as many prescription medications …

Unfortunately, the predisposition to develop symptoms earlier, when disease is more
treatable, is often offset by changes in illness behaviour. Brought up at a time when …

See Articles page 1678 mortality by 24%, whereas trials in older populations, such as the
population studied in the MRC trial (mean age 81 years), did not reduce mortality. 8 Finally …

Drug therapy is essential when caring for elderly patients, but clearly it is a double-edged
sword. Elderly patients are at high risk of having drug interactions, but the prevalence of …

Chris van Weel, Joop Michels treatment in the oldest age groups (80+) were lower than for
the younger elderly in one US study. 4 Over the years medicine has had more to offer in …

Prescribing drugs is central to the work of trainee doctors. Newly graduated doctors write a
large proportion of hospital prescriptions (medication orders) and the task has high stakes …

Prescription of medicines is a fundamental component of the care of elderly people, and
optimisation of drug prescribing for this group of patients has become an important public …

In western Europe, a quarter of the population is aged over 70 years, in whom-because age
is a major determinant of cancer risk-half of new malignancies will occur. Despite the size of …

The ageing of populations is poised to become the next global public health challenge.
During the next 5 years, for the first time in history, people aged 65 years and older in the …

THE USE OF MEDICATIONS IN OLDER PATIENTS IS ARGU-ably the single most important
health care inter-vention in the industrialized world. Individuals older than 65 years are the …